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Refers to the outcome of the conflict affected by the political system or decision making structure of the community or nation in which the conflict occurs.

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ANALYSIS - Morocco changes tack in anti-terrorism policy

Published July 5, 2009, 6:32 am, The Star

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco has shifted from mass arrests to tight surveillance in its fight against Islamic militants and hopes a new campaign to reinforce the authority of state-appointed imams will cut off support for jihadism.

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ANALYSIS-Morocco changes tack in anti-terrorism policy

Published July 5, 2009, 5:56 am, AlertNet

Source: Reuters * Government tightens grip on internal security * Seeks to reinforce local, moderate version of Islam * Aims to bolster the authority of state-appointed imams By Tom Pfeiffer RABAT, July ...

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Obama Urges Groups To Stop Attacks, Focus On Promoting Legislation

Published July 4, 2009, 3:03 pm, Free Internet Press

President Obama, strategizing Friday with congressional leaders about health-care reform, complained that liberal advocacy groups ought to drop their attacks on Democratic lawmakers and devote their energy to promoting passage of comprehensive legislation.

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U.S. Government's 'Organic' Label Under Fire

Published July 3, 2009, 5:03 am, Free Internet Press

Three years ago, U.S. Department of Agriculture employees determined that synthetic additives in organic baby formula violated federal standards and should be banned from a product carrying the federal organic label.

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Write On trip to Israel trains new advocates

Published July 2, 2009, 10:20 pm, Cleveland Jewish News

Many trips promise “The Real Israel.” But the Israelis who met the teen advocacy group Write On for Israel, co-sponsored by The AVI CHAI Foundation and the Cleveland Jewish News, really delivered.

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Columbia residents exercise First Amendment rights

Published July 2, 2009, 10:13 pm, Columbia Missourian

COLUMBIA — As Americans celebrate the birth of the nation, it's important to remember the 45-word sentence that begins the Bill of Rights and outlines the five basic civil liberties that are the keystones of American democracy. The freedoms of speech, petition, press, religious expression and assembly are the blueprints for our society. “The First Amendment was written because at America's ...

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Published July 2, 2009, 9:27 pm, The Daily Tar Heel

When he began thinking that English professor Elyse Crystall should have known better than to write "white, Christian, male" to describe a dissenting student, Mark Driscoll realized how frighteningly close he was to self-censorship, he said.

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OIKOCREDIT: WHERE IS YOUR INVESTMENT GOING?

Published June 30, 2009, 2:35 pm, Ekklesia

Since 2002, Ekklesia has been arguing that a key element of political and democratic renewal in Britain hinges on the encouragement of independent, citizen-based and associational politics as a counter-weight to the hegemony of top-down party elites, and as a challenge to a parliamentary and voting system badly in need of reform.

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Published June 30, 2009, 5:37 am, Aidsmap

If HIV treatment standards in the global South do not keep up with standards in wealthy nations, history will not judge well current efforts to expand treatment in resource-limited settings, Dr Kevin M. De Cock, outgoing head of HIV at the World Health Organization, told the 2009 HIV Implementers’ meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, earlier this month.

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Thoughts on this Term and the Next

Published June 29, 2009, 7:17 pm, SCOTUSblog

It’s always perilous to try and generalize about a Supreme Court Term. Roughly 80 cases on diverse topics decided by nine different people don’t collectively produce clear themes. When they do appear to, it’s often a mirage that reflects the coincidence of cases that happen to fall together by chance within a single term. But that [...]

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  • The Master and Margarita - Historical and political context: The Master and Margarita is a satire of the Stalin period. The Soviet Union existed since 10 years when Bulgakov started to write his masterpiece. The czar period was still fresh in the memories and the battle between de Whites and the Reds had been decided not long before. The changes that Lenin had introduced were already very drastic. But Stalin's personality made the situation escalate even more. The Soviet Union became an intolerant regime that found absurd explanations for its failures. The many members of the secret police had clear and calculated instructions to cope with dissidents and "saboteur s", until they were accused themselves... Videos: - Speech by Lenin - Documentary about Lenin - Lies about the famine - Propaganda film from the Stalin era - Propaganda posters from the Stalin era

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  • American Thinker: Global Warming --A Political Context: For decades environmental activists have insisted that capitalism is not a "sustaina ble" (sufficient to "save the planet") economic system. We now hear brazen declarations that democracy is no longer a "sustaina ble" political process. Al Gore lends a popular, philosophical/ theological underpinning to collectivist impulses by casting the root of all environmental evils - real and imagined - in the scientific and industrial/tec hnological revolutions.

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