20 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Muhammad Sahimi
Ever since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected Iran’s president in June 2005 and began using strong rhetoric against Israel, the neoconservatives and the Israel lobby have been trying to provoke a war against Iran, or at the very least persuade the United States and the international community to [...]
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20 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Ray McGovern
Yes, says Ray McGovern
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20 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Murray Polner
A draft doesn’t prevent war, says Murray Polner
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20 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Leonard Pitts Jr.
Bring back America, says Leonard Pitts
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20 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Jim Lobe
As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush’s "global war on terror."
From Palestine to Pakistan, Obama, who also faces a major fight in getting [...]
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20 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Margaret Griffis
Updated at 9:30 p.m. EST, Nov. 20, 2009
At least seven Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in light violence. A U.S. sailor was killed in a vehicle rollover in Kuwait. The elections law deadlock continues to be the source of most news coming from Iraq.
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19 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt on the speech he wishes Obama would give
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19 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Ellen Massey
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, movement in the standoff between the two sides can be as often backward as it is forward. The past couple of weeks have seen moves from both sides that have garnered the attention of the world, but forward progress remains elusive.
Not least among these [...]
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19 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Charles V. Peña
They still don’t work, says Charles Peña
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19 November 2009 | Uncategorized | Jeff Huber
Jeff Huber says finally, justice will be served
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