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	Mugabe must go by Thanos Kalamidas The regional summit of the South African leaders for Zimbabwe ended and nobody was able to reach any kind of agreement between the two sides leaving the future of Zimbabwe looking darker than ever.
	Why I Write About Ethiopia by Doug McGill "Why the hell are you messing with my country's political affairs?" goes a typical e-mail from the dozens I've received this summer from readers living in Ethiopia, from immigrants living in Minnesota, and from throughout the Ethiopian diaspora.
	Musharraf's end game by Thanos Kalamidas The first one has gone and it was about time. Pakistan's dictator Pervez Musharraf resigned under the pressure of facing charges. Obviously he proved to have a bit of brain and just like Pinochet a few years ago he chose to leave power graciously.

	The Anger, the Longing, the Hope by Gush Shalom One of the wisest pronouncements I have heard in my life was that of an Egyptian general, a few days after Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem.
	South Ossetia: The Guns of August by René Wadlow As the eyes of much of the world was focused on the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing on 8/8/08, Georgian troops moved into the province of South Ossetia to restore Georgian control.
	8888: A Grisly Episode of an Epic Struggle by Rohingya Human Rights 8888-The massacre of August 8, 1988 is a "turning point in the history" of Burma and it has laid the groundworks for the "second struggle for the independence" of Burma as the daughter of Burma's independence hero Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said.
	Media in Afghanistan Before and After the Taliban by Abdulhadi Hairan Media is improved to the extent we cannot imagine in Afghanistan after the Taliban.
	The OPEC Jitters and the Fear Monger Boogie by Leah Sellers Toot-a-toot! Hear the Brass and the driving Beat of the Drum! The OPEC Cartel Oil Drums! Yeah, Man! We had All better Dance and Jive to Their Global Beat 'n Tune.
	A Knight on a Gray Horse by Gush Shalom Obama had promised to put an end to the old, dirty corporate funding-for-influence system. Now it appears that he participates in this corrupt system himself.
	American National Security in the Age of Insecurity: 1/5 by Dr. Habib Siddiqui The notion of total national security has never been a reality, neither during the heydays of Egyptian, Assyrian, Byzantine, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Empires nor now for any nation, big or small.
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