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Putin threw fat into the Ukrainian fire today by calling for Talks on Eastern Ukraine Statehood . The question at hand is" What precisely does Putin mean by "statehood"
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Veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh warned in a prophetic 2007 New Yorker article titled, " The Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? " that (emphasis added): To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran.