Pakistan Playing the China Card

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, outrage against Pakistan has become commonplace in Washington, as exasperation grows, pressure builds, and the threats multiply.  Members of Congress from both parties have urged major cuts in the third largest U.S....

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Egypt-Gaza Border Remains Closed to Trade

Despite the Egyptian revolution, which ousted Israeli ally and former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and despite Israel's claim to have eased the blockade on Gaza following last year's bloody clashes on the ill-fated Mavi Marmara flotilla, the coastal territory's...

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Iran: Khatami Calls for National Reconciliation

Amid intensified factional fighting among conservatives who dominate the presidency, the parliament, and the office of the Islamic Republic's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an appeal for national reconciliation and forgiveness by a former reformist president is...

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Tuesday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 18 Wounded

At least six Iraqis were killed and 18 more were wounded in light violence. Several political stories cropped up. They not only involved Iraq’s relationship with the United States but two of Iraq’s regional neighbors as well.
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‘Bibi’ Votes Republican

Not since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers' U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing down like the one Barack Obama received from Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. With this crucial...

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Bringing It All Back Home

Republican members of Congress—nigh lockstep supporters of the Wall Street bailout, the Iraq War, and the PATRIOT Act when their party controlled the executive branch—profess to have rediscovered the Constitution during the first two years of the Age of Obama. Those...

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