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div class="article_title"Yemen: A Haven for Qhat (Qat) Not Al-Qaeda/div!--p class="subtitle"br / /p-- div class="article_biline"New America Media, Interview, img alt="Video" src="http://media.newamericamedia.org/images/basics/video.gif" /, Sandip Roy, Video by Ann Bassette, Posted: Jan 30, 2010 script type="text/javascript"newstrust_icon = 'http://newstrust.net/images/ntbuttons/newstrust_review_link.gif';/scriptspan id="newstrust_submit_story_button"img alt="Review it on NewsTrust" ...
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I appeared on WCCO TV today. You might enjoy the segment on singing and accents.br /br /a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1264744672141"lt;/aa class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=74139@wcco.dayport.com%3E"http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=74139@wcco.dayport.comgt;/abr /nbsp;a href="http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=74139@wcco.dayport.com%20"http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=74139@wcco.dayport.comnbsp;/abr /br /br /object height="344" width="425"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4KmtjMjdDIcamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4KmtjMjdDIcamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br ...
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From Gary Sick's public blog [http:] garysick.tumblr.com=""br //http:br /preiNote from William O. Beeman:/i/prepreiGary Sick's superb analysis of recent information leaked from the White House to the Washington Post/i/prepreiand the New York Times has the ring of truth. The New ...
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div class="article_title"span style="font-size: large;"bIran’s Uncertain Future/b/spanbr //div!--p class="subtitle"br / /p-- div class="article_biline"br //divdiv class="article_biline"New America Media, News analysis,br //divdiv class="article_biline"William O. Beeman, Posted: Dec 31, 2009 script type="text/javascript"newstrust_icon = 'http://newstrust.net/images/ntbuttons/newstrust_review_link.gif';/scriptspan id="newstrust_submit_story_button"img alt="Review it on NewsTrust" onclick="newstrust_submit_story('http://newstrust.net/submit?story[url]=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.newamericamedia.org%2Fnews%2Fview_article.html%3Farticle_id%3Db459a12647c978cf0fff9a4a51e1de2eamp;story[title]=Iran%E2%80%99s%20Uncertain%20Future%20-%20NAM')" src="http://newstrust.net/images/ntbuttons/newstrust_review_link.gif" style="border: medium none; ...
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Los Angeles Timesbr /br /IRAN: Story of martyr Imam Hussein fires the protest dramabr /December 29, 2009 | 8:37 ambr /br /br /It was a political slogan soaked with Iranian history, religion and cultural identity. br /br /"This month is ...
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Note: Alan J. Kuperman of the University of Texas wrote a 1500 word op-ed for the New York Times on December 24 calling for the United States to bomb Iran. This astonishing essay has been widely attacked, but the following ...
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bThree detained American hikers will be tried in Iranian court.br //bbr /Minnesotan Shane Bauer and two friends Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were arrested after crossing the Iran, Iraq border in July.br /br /Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the ...
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bAmerican Hikers in Iran—Too Useful to Releasebr /William O. Beemanbr //bbr /Three Americans, journalist Shane Bauer and his companions, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd have been detained in Iran since July 31, 2009 for entering the Islamic Republic from Iraq ...
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bCulture and Rituals of Eatingbr //b br /University of Minnesota anthropology department head William Beeman explains how eating together is a universal tradition around the globe and is used to bring people together. The customs that surround eating are part ...
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bAttacks on Iran Are Attacks on Obama/bbr /br /New America Media, News analysis, William O. Beeman, Posted: Nov 18, 2009 Review it on NewsTrustbr /br /In the last few weeks, there has been a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations against Iran. ...
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In the last few weeks there has been a flurry of unsubstantiated attacks against Iran. These attacks may seem to be aimed at Iran, but in fact a pattern is emerging that suggests that the attacks are really directed at ...
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bIran Charges 3 American Hikers With Espionagebr //bbr /By JACK HEALY and NAZILA FATHIbr /Published: November 9, 2009br /br /br /ibNote by William O. Beeman/b: There is a danger in being too sanguine about the situation of the three hikers ...
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bIAEA Found Nothing Serious at Iran Site/bbr /Posted on Nov 07, 2009 02:56:00 PM by Andrew Lambr /[ filed under: foreign-policy middle-east ]br /br /by William O. Beemanbr /br /When a “secret nuclear site” in Qom (Qum), Iran was voluntarily ...
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a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5A13KW20091105?rpc=401=undefinedpageNumber=1virtualBrandChannel=0sp=true"http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5A13KW20091105?rpc=401=undefinedpageNumber=1virtualBrandChannel=0sp=true/abr /br /iReuters News Servicebr //ibr /bIAEA found nothing serious at Iran site: ElBaradei/bbr /Thu Nov 5, 2009 4:26pm ESTbr /br /ibNote from William O. Beeman/b: When the "secret nuclear site" in Qum, Iran was disclosed to the International ...
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http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/69079902.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiUbr /br /bCommensality: Table fellowshipbr /br //bbr /br /iMind your manners, and all is well at the table.br //ibr /br /By LEE SVITAK DEAN, Star Tribune br /Last update: November 4, 2009 - 2:33 PMbr /br /Eating with others at ...
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div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'pTwo Minnesota families are mourning the loss of two men killed last week fighting for Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan./p p"It took so long to sink in, I don't think it has really," Kyle Taylor said in Two Harbors ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Iran’s Nuclear Program: Facts Americans Need to Know/spanbr /br /New America Media, News Analysis, br /William O. Beeman, br /Posted: Sep 29, 2009 br /br /The recent news that Iran is in the process of building a second uranium ...
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Friends,br /I appeared today (September 28) on Minnesota Public Radio's Midday program talking about Iran, the recent "discovery" of the nuclear facility at Qom and its implications for future relations with Iran. You can access the program directly below. br ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"New U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Iran Will Backfirebr //spanbr /New America Media, News Analysis, br /br /William O. Beeman, Posted: Sep 24, 2009br /br /a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=20fe730a0ddd9cda18f61e1aa5d61934section_id=1"http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=20fe730a0ddd9cda18f61e1aa5d61934section_id=1br //abr /br /The U.S. Congress, with the support of the Obama administration, may ...
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latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-nukes28-2009aug28,0,4625620.storybr /latimes.combr /span style="font-weight:bold;"Nuclear drive a casualty of Iran's turmoil/spanbr /br /span style="font-style:italic;"Experts say Tehran is unlikely to speed up its program, giving the U.S. and its allies more time to work with.span style="font-weight:bold;"/span/spanbr /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"With Each New Assessment, Iran's Nuclear Clock Is Resetbr /Politics Plays a Role in How Intelligence Is Interpretedbr //spanbr /By Gal Beckermanbr /br /Published August 19, 2009, issue of August 28, 2009.br /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. ...
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Last night (Friday, August 21, 2009) on his MSNBC program, Countdown, Keith Olberman re-ran his now famous video documentation of White House scandals and crises throughout the Bush administration, showing decisively that every time the President’s credibility was in question, ...
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strongThe Propaganda Value of a Detained Journalist /strongbr /br /New America Media, News Analysis, br /William O. Beeman, br /Posted: Aug 06, 2009 br /br /emstrongEditor’s Note:/strong New America Media correspondent Shane Bauer is one of three Americans presumed to ...
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=21980efc72e558f09f07f8f0b79e111dbr /br /strongIran’s Current Turmoil Has Deep Roots/strongbr /br /New America Media, News Analysis, William O. Beeman, Posted: Jul 17, 2009 Review it on NewsTrustbr /br /The turbulent internal politics of Iran following the June 12 election have been most ...
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a href="http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=e14748fc752c2d6ebb2ede41ff9a9cad"Iran’s Ongoing Revolution - NAM/abr /br /strongIran’s Ongoing Revolution/strongbr /br /New America Media, News analysis, William O. Beeman, Posted: Jun 26, 2009 br /br /emstrongAdditional Commentary from William O. Beeman/strong: I wrote the piece below on Tuesday, June 23. ...
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I recognize a real social movement when I see one, and the Iranian turmoil is likely to have long-term consequences. Eventually, I believe those agitating for governmental change are going to prevail and revise the constitution, but it will take ...
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a href="http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=104660701606amp;h=mLRFDamp;u=dsr05amp;ref=nf"The Crisis in Iran Is Just Beginning - The Daily Beast/abr /br / br /The Crisis in Iran Is Just Beginningbr /by Gary Sickbr /June 22, 2009 | 11:28pmbr / AP Photo Gary Sick, the key White House official ...
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Note: The article below has been modified from the original.br /br /strongIT'S THE AFTERMATH OF THE IRANIAN ELECTION THAT COUNTS/strongbr /br /br /New America Media, News Analysis, William O. Beeman, Posted: Jun 18, 2009br /br /The Iranian presidential election is ...
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In 2005, I wrote an article for the Brown Journal of World Affairs laying out the structure of Iranian government and election procedures that are followed in Iran. The article has proved to be very popular and sturdy, and was ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24leverett.html?_r=1em=pagewanted=allbr /br /The New York Timesbr /br /May 24, 2009br /Op-Ed Contributorsbr /Have We Already Lost Iran?br /By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN LEVERETTbr /br /Washingtonbr /span style="font-style:italic;"br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. Beeman:/spanbr /The ducks at AIPAC, the American ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"They May Not Want The Bomb/spanbr /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"And other unexpected truths.span style="font-style:italic;"/span/spanbr /br /NEWSWEEKbr /May 23, 2009br /br /By Fareed Zakariabr /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Comment by William O. Beeman:/spanbr /Fareed Zakaria verifies what Iranian experts have been saying ...
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ef2bdae62daac827adb2c5b20973af23br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Roxana Saberi’s Release Bodes Well for U.S.-Iran Relationsbr //spanbr /New America Media, Commentary, William O. Beeman, Posted: May 11, 2009br /br /Roxana Saberi, the 32-year-old Iranian-American journalist convicted of espionage in Iran has been released to her ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Lecturer Beeman dicusses U.S.-Iranian relationsbr //spanbr /By: Elspeth Lodge '10br /br /Posted: 4/29/09br /The United States and Iran have been 'ghahr' with each other for approximately 30 years now: while the two countries do not diplomatically talk to each ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Editorial: Step up push for Saberi's releasebr //spanbr /span style="font-weight:bold;"span style="font-style:italic;"Senior statesman could help secure journalist's freedom./spanbr //spanbr /br /The news about North Dakota journalist Roxana Saberi is increasingly grim. First arrested in Iran, ostensibly for buying wine, the ...
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Published April 18 2009br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Expert on Iran says clemency possible for Saberi; br /br /span style="font-style:italic;"ND congressional delegation reacts with dismay to convictionbr //span/spanbr /FARGO – An expert on Iran said today that given the harsh sentence American ...
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a href="http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5867"http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5867/abr /Foreign Policy in Focusbr /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"A New Era in U.S.-Iranian Relations?br //spanbr /William O. Beeman | February 12, 2009br /br /Editor: John Fefferbr /br /Foreign Policy In Focus a href="http://www.fpif.org"www.fpif.org/abr /br / br /br /Iran is in ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"US professor William O. Beeman: Obama transition team has no expertise on Iran/spanbr /br /New York, Feb 11, IRNA -- William O. Beeman, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota said that Obama ...
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A New Era in U.S.-Iranian Relations?br /br /William O. Beemanbr /br /Iran is in the midst of celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Since the United States has also had a recent revolution of sorts in its ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Interview with Roberto Gonzales, author of ‘American Counterinsurgency’br /br /(University of Chicago Press, 2009) br //spanbr /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. Beeman/span: The Human Terrain System of the U.S. military, where social scientists are embedded with combat troops ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"The Iranian Veto on Mideast Peacebr //spanbr /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. Beeman/span: Neoconservatives in the United States from organizations such as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and ...
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strongTehran Wanted to Deny Carter any Kind of Victorybr /Interview with William O. Beeman - 2009.01.21 /strongbr /Barack Obama’s views on the Middle East are not very different from the Bush Administration’s, said Professor William Beeman, Chair of Anthropology and ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Obama pledges new tack on Iranbr //spanbr /Michael Theodoulou, Foreign Correspondentbr /br / * Last Updated: January 12. 2009 9:30AM UAE / January 12. 2009 5:30AM GMTbr /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. Beeman/span: President Elect Obama's transition ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"UNSC votes for ceasefire in Gazabr /br //spanbr /09 January 2009 Friday 22:14br /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. Beeman/span: Coverage of the fighting in Gaza has been scant in the United States. Iran's a href="http://www.presstv.ir"PressTV/a is one ...
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Re “Defeat Hamas to defeat Iran,” Opinion, Jan. 4 br /br /In maintaining that Israel is really fighting Iran in Gaza, not Hamas or the Palestinians, Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren conveniently ignore the historical relations between Hamas ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Hamas is Not Iran's Puppet/spanbr /br /New America Media, Commentary, William O. Beeman, Posted: Dec 31, 2008br /br /span style="font-style:italic;"Editor’s Note: The popular wisdom that Iran is pulling the strings behindbr /Hamas doesn’t take into account the geography of ...
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span style="font-weight:bold;"Still Preparing to Attack Iran: The Neoconservatives in the Obama Era/spanbr /br /Tuesday 02 December 2008br /br /by: Robert Dreyfuss, TomDispatch.combr /br /span style="font-style:italic;"span style="font-weight:bold;"Commentary by William O. Beeman:/span Robert Dreyfuss makes it clear that the neoconservatives bent on ...