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When Does the White Working Class Get Amnestied?
By Nicholas Stix on March 22, 2013 at 11:28pm

Late Friday afternoon, there were reports that the Gang of Eight’s secret plotting to work out the details of the bipartisan 2013 Obama/ Rubio Amnesty/...

Syria rebels seize southern base, border area

By Erika Solomon
BEIRUT | Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:58pm EDT

(Reuters) - Rebels seized an air defense base near Syria's strategic southern international highway on Saturday, activists said, bolstering access to...

Report claims US trying to boost secular opposition forces out of fear for what may come after Assad
By YOEL GOLDMAN March 23, 2013, 10:26 am 1

The CIA has been feeding intelligence to select Syrian rebel groups in their efforts against the Bashar Assad regime,...

Obama gave Netanyahu the green light on Iran
By K.T. McFarland
Published March 22, 2013
FoxNews.com


Most analysts think President Obama went to Israel in a public relations effort to smooth relations between the two countries. He wasn’t aiming for any breakthroughs in the peace process, and tried to dampen expectations in advance. The visit...

Ties that Bind: Can China-Russia Relations Endure?
By Zachary Keck

March 23, 2013



The long-running consensus in the West and elsewhere has been that China and Russia are destined to clash. According to this narrative, while America’s...