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NEWS ABOUT: nationalism

nationalism stories: 14 news summaries
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

More Troops in Afghanistan
= Angrier Insurgents

Doesn't US remember how our country began? Or how Vietnam ended?

Oct 22, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United States was born from a nationalist insurgency. “Given that history, you’d think we might be more sensitive to nationalism abroad,” writes Nicholas Kristof. “Yet the most systematic foreign-policy mistake we Americans have made in the post-World War II period has been to underestimate its... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • troop surge • US military • Pashtun • nationalism • insurgency • Nicholas Kristof

OPINION

Obama-Bashing Is Manchurian Candidate Crap

Claims he has an anti-US agenda go well beyond Bush-loathing

Oct 19, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Liberals questioned George W Bush's legitimacy and wanted him to fail, writes Michael Tomasky, so what's the difference between those Bush haters and the birthers, teabaggers, and "paranoid" “committed conservatives” who Tomasky writes are way “off the continuum” of political debate over Barack Obama’s presidency?... More »

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Barack Obama • nationalism • Michael Tomasky • George W. Bush • patriotism • conservatives • opinion polls • Obama administration • President Obama • Typhoid Mary

 Turkey, Armenia Move 
 Toward Diplomatic Ties 

Talks won't touch WWI-era massacre at root of ill feelings, however

Aug 31, 09 9:13 PM CDT
(AP) - Armenia and Turkey, bitter foes for a century, took a step toward reconciliation today by announcing they would launch final talks aimed at establishing diplomatic ties. But they won't discuss the deepest source of their enmity: the World War I-era massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule. The sides say they... More »

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Turkey • massacre • nationalism • Armenia • Ottoman Empire • diplomatic ties • President Obama

(Newser) - Canadians—contrary to popular belief—are pretty sure they live in the best country in the world. In a poll pegged to today’s Canada Day celebrations, the Globe and Mail found that 89% of Canucks think their nation can’t be beat, and 87% consider it best suited to... More »

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Queen Elizabeth • Canada • England • nationalism • national pride • opinion polls • Canada Day • self-image


 India to Sell 
 Cow Pee Soda 

Nationalists push drink as Coke, Pepsi rival

Feb 12, 09 11:56 AM CST
(Newser) - India's largest Hindu nationalist group is taking on Coke and Pepsi with a native brew that's a little, uh, earthier: a soft drink made from cow urine. "Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and will be tasty, too," its maker assures the Times. The so-called cow water—... More »

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India • globalization • cows • soda • nationalism

Holder Pushed Clemency
for Puerto Rican Militants

Obama's attorney-general pick helped commute sentences for PR nationalists

Jan 9, 09 12:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s attorney-general nominee fought for clemency for 16 militant Puerto Rican nationalists during his time in the Clinton administration, the Los Angeles Times reports. Eric Holder pushed Justice Department subordinates to pave the way to Clinton’s clemency grant, documents show, sparking fury from law-enforcement officials who’d... More »

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Attorney General • Bill Clinton • Clinton administration • clemency • Puerto Rico • nationalism • militant • Eric Holder • transition team • President Obama

 When Did Bombay 
 Become Mumbai? 

Locals have always called it that, but city made it official in 1995

Dec 1, 08 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - The terrorist attacks last week saw Mumbai dominate headlines across the world. But when did Bombay become Mumbai? For locals it’s always been Mumbai, in honor of Mumbadevi, the city’s deity, writes Christopher Beam for Slate. But the city’s official name change happened in 1995, when the... More »

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India • Bollywood • Mumbai • nationalism • name • name change • Bombay

Firebrand Sets Russia's Tone
at NATO

Moscow's Brussels rep, a Stalin admirer,
revels in attack

Aug 28, 08 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you needed proof of Russia's contempt for NATO, look no further than Dmitri Rogozin, Moscow's representative to the military alliance. A fiery ultranationalist who once had a poster of Stalin hanging in his office, Rogozin has seemed more showman than diplomat. But since the South Ossetian war, something's changed—... More »

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Russia • NATO • Georgia • Brussels • nationalism • South Ossetia • Dmitri Rogozin

(Newser) - Those shocked by China’s bristly response to Olympic protests and criticisms would do well to remember some history, Orville Schell writes for the New York Review of Books. After what the Chinese call a "century of humiliation" at the hands of the West and Japan, the nation... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Chinese • nationalism • Olympic torch

OPINION

Low-Profile US-Iraq Pact Sparks Big Worries

Proposed agreement 'eerily resembles' disastrous 1930 Britain-Baghdad deal

Jun 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is pressuring Iraq to sign off on a long-term security agreement that looks unfortunately similar to a disastrous 1930 pact between Iraq and Britain, and the new pact "could haunt Washington’s relations with Baghdad for years to come," historian and journalist Karl E. Meyer writes... More »

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Iraq • Nazi • nationalism • Britain • UN sanctions

 Blogs Vent China's Anti-West Ire 

Chinese see outcry over Tibet, torch as effort to sap newfound strength

Apr 16, 08 8:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese Internet is aflame with vitriol at Western governments and news organizations for “insults” over Tibet and recent Olympic torch incidents, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Chinese authorities, usually quick to censor the Web, have let the sentiment flow, believing "the West is trying to humiliate them... More »

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China • blogosphere • xenophobia • 2008 Beijing Olympics • blog • Tibet • nationalism • Olympic torch

Hungarian Right-Wingers Evoke Nazi-Era Militia

Black-booted Hungarian Guard stirs fears

Feb 13, 08 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - A far-right group reminiscent of Nazi-era fascist militias is causing alarm in Hungary and echoing nationalist movements across Eastern Europe, the Los Angeles Times reports. Members of the Hungarian Guard march wearing black uniforms that resemble those of the Arrow Cross, a militia that helped Nazis kill thousands of Hungarian... More »

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Holocaust • Nazi • Hungary • nationalism • Tom Lantos • Magyar Garda • Hungarian Guard • Arrow Cross

Franco-Flemish Split Widens
in Belgium

66% of Belgians believe the nation will break apart sooner or later

Sep 21, 07 5:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tensions in Belgium over whether the country should be split in half have reached a crescendo, with 3-month-old elections still unsettled and Flemish separatist politicians calling for a divorce, the New York Times reports. "We are two different nations with nothing in common except a king, chocolate, and beer,... More »

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Belgium • Brussels • nationalism • Flanders • Walloon

Extremists
Mark New
‘Cold Peace’

Russian videos
signal paranoia, wounded pride

Aug 29, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “sleeping bear” of Mother Russia is either waking to attack its enemies or rolling over a few victims as it dozes, dreaming of a lost empire, Maclean’s reports. Military flights above Guam and flag-posting on the North Pole have been well-reported; but an explosion of violent nationalism,... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • extremists • Kremlin • Cold War • Nashi • nationalism

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