Yitzhak Shamir, Former Israeli Prime Minister, Passed Away on Saturday at Age 96

    Yitzhak Shamir, who served two terms as Israeli prime minster 1983 to 1984, and from 1986 to 1992, died Saturday, the prime minister’s office said.   Born in Poland, Shamir moved to Palestine and fought for Israeli independence. He joined the Likud movement, serving as a member of Israel’s parliament, and also worked […]

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Afghan’s Amazing DIY Internet From Trash

  In the Afghan city of Jalalabad, aid workers mostly from the United States working on a project called FabFi. FabFi is a high-tech but low-budget  project that aims to bring high-speed internet to world’s most remote places. Douglas Rushkoff has championed the idea that the current corporate-controlled internet is far from the open commons we […]

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Why the Pakistan Army Won’t Fight Afghanistan’s Taliban

President Barack Obama is about to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, but the success of whatever option he chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan acting to stop its territory being used to attack Western forces next door. And that’s bad news, because the demands of its own domestic counterinsurgency campaign, doubts about the duration of U.S

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AFGHANISTAN: Cloak & Box Trick

Lean, wiry Bacha Sakao, “The Water Carrier,” bandit King of Afghanistan sat, unconcerned, in the capital city of Kabul last fortnight while the King he drove from the throne, plump, oily Amanullah, prestidigitated in far off Kandahar to show his fitness to rule. To suspicious Kandahar Afghans plump Amanullah promised last fortnight to show the famed Khirkai Shereef , a religious relic of great potency kept in a locked box which only “a man fit to be King” can open

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‘Pakistan Wasn’t bin Laden’s Only Hideout,’ says Prime Minister Gilani

Osama bin Laden may have been found and killed in Pakistan, but that country’s leaders believe it wasn’t the only place where the al-Qaeda leader had traveled after fleeing Afghanistan in late 2001. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in an exclusive interview with TIME on Wednesday — one of the first he has given since the raid on Abbottabad — thinks bin Laden may have visited his ancestral homeland, Yemen, in search of a new bride

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