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Realism makes a welcome return to US foreign policy
The Independent - Jun. 25, 2009 (Editorial)
The real surprise is that it has taken so long. After five months, President Barack Obama's foreign policy is now under assault, from both left and right. For some liberals, ...
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As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
The Independent - Jun. 21, 2009 (News Report)
Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds.
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Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market
The Independent - by Martin Hickman - Jun. 3, 2009 (Special Report)
A corporation within the £170bn Mitsubishi empire is importing thousands of tonnes of the fish from Europe into Tokyo's premium fish markets, despite stocks plummeting ...
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Land grab: The race for the world's farmland
The Independent - by Margareta Pagano - May. 3, 2009 (News Report)
In Africa they are calling it the land grab, or the new colonialism. Countries hungry to secure their food supplies – including Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, South Korea (the ...
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Obama: 100 days, 100 ways
The Independent - by David Usborne - Apr. 26, 2009 (Opinion)
1 When presidents get invited to the annual Gridiron Dinner for a night of political skits among the Washington press corps, they always go. Not this one, who became the first ...
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Obama a hit as Americas Summit drawing to close
The Independent - Apr. 19, 2009 (News Report)
Latin American leaders are hailing as a success an Americas summit closing on Sunday that consecrated President Barack Obama as a positive partner in the hemisphere who won ...
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You are being lied to about pirates
The Independent - by Johann Hari: - Apr. 14, 2009 (Opinion)
Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" – from 1650 to 1730 – the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage Bluebeard that ...
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The dark side of Dubai
The Independent - by Johann Hari - Apr. 8, 2009 (Special Report)
There are three different Dubais, all swirling around each other. There are the expats, like Karen; there are the Emiratis, headed by Sheikh Mohammed; and then there is the ...
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Aid comes at a price for 'AfPak' leaders
The Independent - by Andrew Buncombe, Omar Waraich - Mar. 29, 2009 (News Report)
The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan (now yoked together in Washington as AfPak) publicly welcomed the Obama administration's new policy for the region yesterday, but ...
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Religulous: Borat-style satire on faith causes outrage
The Independent - by Andrew Johnson, Emily Dugan - Mar. 22, 2009 (News Report)
A Borat-style documentary lampooning the world's religions through interviews with their leaders is to open in Britain next week – and, if the US experience is anything to ...
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Did leak from a laboratory cause swine flu pandemic?
The Independent - by Steve Connor - Jun. 30, 2009 (Special Report)
It has swept across the world killing at least 300 people and infecting thousands more. Yet the swine flu pandemic might not have happened had it not been for the accidental ...
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Now Mousavi's family feels force of crackdown
The Independent - by Kim Sengupta - Jun. 25, 2009 (News Report)
There were fears last night that the wife of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi had been arrested after a defiant statement that protesters should not buckle despite ...
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Oil boom threatens the last orang-utans
The Independent - Jun. 23, 2009 (Special Report)
A famous British company, Jardines, is profiting as the lowland forest – which shelters the few remaining orang-utans – is razed to make way for massive palm oil ...
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Battle for the Islamic Republic
The Independent - by Robert Fisk - Jun. 21, 2009 (News Analysis)
Now that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has placed himself shoulder to shoulder with his officially elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the very existence of the ...
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In Tehran, fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows
The Independent - by Robert Fisk - Jun. 20, 2009 (Opinion)
Fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows, but once they are combined and spread with high-speed inaccuracy around the world, they are also lethal. Sham elections, the ...
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The dead of Iran are mourned – but the fight goes on
The Independent - by Robert Fisk - Jun. 19, 2009 (Opinion)
"President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and the quotation marks are becoming ever more appropriate in Iran today – is in real trouble. There are now three separate official ...
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Iraqi Oil Minister accused of mother of all sell-outs
The Independent - by Patrick Cockburn - Jun. 18, 2009 (News Report)
Furious protests threaten to undermine the Iraqi government's controversial plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to ...
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Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom
The Independent - by Robert Fisk - Jun. 17, 2009 (Comment)
The fate of Iran rested last night in a grubby north Tehran highway interchange called Vanak Square where – after days of violence – supporters of the official President ...
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Public Support Creation of Marine Nature Reserve
The Independent - by Emily Beament - Jun. 8, 2009 (Poll)
More than four fifths of people support the introduction of a nature reserve in our seas to protect stocks of fish, according to a survey published today on World Oceans Day. ...
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Three more states back gay marriage, but will Obama?
The Independent - by Rupert Cornwell - May. 10, 2009 (Opinion)
It hasn't been formally designated as such, but so far this is America's year of gay rights. The signs are many and various. Sean Penn won this year's Oscar for best male ...
Overview
| Media | Newspaper |
| Audience | Medium audience (100-500K) (English) |
| Scope | International |
| Political Viewpoint | Left |
| Owners | Independent News & Media | public_corporation | Managers: Simon Kelner |
| Story Formats | News Report (185), Opinion (71), Special Report (42), News Analysis (22), Editorial (13), (8), Review (4), Comment (2), Poll (1), Interview (1), Not Sure (1) |
| Story Authors | Leonard Doyle (30), Geoffrey Lean (27), Patrick Cockburn (17), Rupert Cornwell (16), Robert Fisk (15), Johann Hari (12), Stephen Foley (10), Kim Sengupta (10), David Usborne (9), Donald Macintyre (9), Jane Merrick (8), Steve Connor (8), Anne Penketh (7), Michael Mccarthy (6), Raymond Whitaker (6)... |
| Story Topics | Presidential Election 2008 (61), Obama Administration (44), Environment (38), Climate Change (33), Global Warming (32), United Kingdom (31), War (31), Global Economy (31), Iraq (27), War in Iraq (26), Bush Administration (26), John McCain (20), Foreign Policy (20), Middle East (17), Hillary Clinton (16)... |
Research
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
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Editorial
| Edited By | Kaizar Campwala |
| Last Edit | Dec 6, 2006 - 1:28 PM PST |