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Fares Lecture canceled due to scheduling conflicts - 2008
More Iraq Civil War Ahead? Anthony Cordesman
Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More But Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that t ... more
Berkeley Today
Total Stalemate at Fractured Arab Summit “It is enough for the Arab summit in Damascus that the American ghost is banished,” the editorial said. “It is enough that for the first time, all of ... more
A CLEAN BREAK - 1996 from the Neocons to Bibi See the parts about IRAQ
Ray McGovern on PBS, Frontline and IRAQ
IRAQ & ISRAEL - PBS on Iraq: A Compilation of Deceit What the broadcast revealed was nothing new. Others have engaged the subject as thoroughly as did Frontline. What we did see in this broadcast, howeve ... more
Slate on Other Magazines including FOX
The Supreme Court gives the right to habeas corpus a swirly. Americans held by Iraqis - do they get 'habeaus corpus' or not?
Slate's Hillary Death Watch
Jessica Cutler Reporn
The Opium Brides of Afghanistan In the country's poppy-growing provinces, farmers are being forced to sell their daughters to pay loans.
Newsweek: Buy Buyout as Print Publications Decline
Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoi ... more
More Muslims Than Catholics in Today's World
Liveleak Caves to Pressures and Removes Video
Israelis Further Squeezing, Threatening, Bribing Syria "All efforts are being made to bring Syria to the negotiating table" in order to "sign a peace treaty," Ben-Eliezer told Israel Radio, without elabora ... more
Newspapers take biggest ad revenue hit in 50 years
Iraq: a conflict arising from the emergence of China? In sum, the US invasion was not driven by Middle East considerations at all - it had more to do with the emergence of China. That is the interesting t ... more
The New Middle East Magazine 1994
China May Be New Land of Opportunity
Iraqi National Congress
Laith Kubba Interview
Spitzer's Ashley Already Girl Gone Wild
JACKO CLAN IN A DEEP FUNK A TALE OF RICHES BACK TO RAGS AS MICHAEL-JILTED KIN HIT ROCK BOTTOM
Air Force Pilot Who Flew Clinton to Bosnia Tells His Side of the Story "Yeah, so, no evasive maneuver. I gotta tell ya, I will give it to the commander of Air Base Eagle. He had that place - you know, not only were there ... more
Military Jumps on Clinton 'Misspeaks'
IRAQ CONSTITUTION - 2005
Program - Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 6.6
Istrabadi Video and Background - Dept of State
Istrabadi on News Hour on new Interim Constittion in 2004
Istrabadi on News Hour on new Interim Constittion
Video - Istrabadi on News Hour November 2007
FEAR FOLLOWS IRAQIS ABROAD Their worries are not just for family in Syria and Europe, but also for family members who remain in Iraq. If word gets out to people who perceive my ... more
Istrabadi on News Hour November 2007 Violence in Iraq is on the decline but sharp internal political divisions continue to hinder the Iraqi government and its efforts to make substantive ... more
Man arrested near Capitol faces WMD charge
Russian Bombers Intercepted NATO forces sent jets to escort two Russian long-range air force bombers patrolling neutral skies near Alaska on Wednesday, Russian news agencies quot ... more
Attacks on Mahdi Army Forces Escalating - Cease-Fire in Jeopardy
Istrabadi and Iraq - 5 Year Anniversary
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE - Gideon Spiro in Haaretz
Istrabadi on IRAQ in Foreign Policy
NED 2004 Forum on Democracy in Middle East
First Look: Lenovo ThinkPad X300
New Govt Has 1000+ Jails Throughout Country
What Next For IRAQ - 2003 Forum
Ali Allawi Biography
Laith Kubba on News Hour in Jan 2008
Ali Allawi on The Daily Show
Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints - wIKIPEDIA
DAILY SHOW - Ali Allawi tries to articulate how he deals with the daily grief in Iraq.
US and Maliki Forces Battle Sadr Forces The clashes comes as Sadr's movement mounted a nation-wide civil disobedience campaign in many parts of eastern and central Baghdad, demanding the rel ... more
Bush Says War's Outcome 'Will Merit the Sacrifice'
Hillary's Long Defeat - And then Obama's For three more months (maybe more!) the campaign will proceed along in its Verdun-like pattern. There will be a steady rifle fire of character assassi ... more
IRAQ - No Troop Reductions This Election Year
Obama's Historic Speech - Herbert in NYTimes With a worldview that embraces both justice and healing, Senator Obama is better on these issues than any American leader since King....Far more peopl ... more
Iraq 5 Years In - NYTimes Interactive Year by Year
TIBET - Better World Links
PBS - China and Tibet
Bush’s War–And Our Own - 8pm PBS Tonight
FRONTLINE - Bush's WAR - 9PM Tonight (24 March and 25 March)
Obama Vacationing in St. Thomas
Dubai Arrests for Drug Possession of Specks His experience is common, according to Fair Trials International, a legal charity, which says that drug-related arrests have increased rapidly since 2 ... more
Clinton and Obama Manuever
Middle East peace plans under threat as Hamas and Fatah talk of unity
Death reports as Chinese police open fire on monks and nuns
Slouching Toward Denver - Dems Face Apocalypse When Democrats contemplate the apocalypse these days, they have visions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugging it out à la Ted Kennedy and Jimmy ... more
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=44aed783-8357-4491-8589-ee15290e6e96 When Democrats contemplate the apocalypse these days, they have visions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugging it out à la Ted Kennedy and Jimmy ... more
Norman Lear endorses young voters AT 85, Norman Lear is, by age and experience, Democratic Hollywood's elder statesman. But he was also the first guy in town to recognize that presiden ... more
New Book - THE MUCH TOO PROMISED LAND
Defense officials view laser as future of anti-missile technology
Defense officials view laser as future of anti-missile technology
U.S. Jewish movement embraces mixed marriages, reaches out to kids 'Project Welcome' outreach program of the Union for Reform Judaism offers blessing for non-Jewish spouses and says most important issue for inter-fait ... more
McCain in ISRAEL What was supposed to be a somber pilgrimage to the Western Wall on Wednesday morning was marred by an unruly mob of Israeli photographers, police and ... more
Lebanese Fear Civil War and War with Israel
A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals has circulated a petition urging the government to stop what it calls a “one sided” propaganda campaign about Tibet and initiate direct dialogue with the Dalai Lama. A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals has circulated a petition urging the government to stop what it calls a “one sided” propaganda campaign ab ... more
NYTimes Editorial on China, Tibet, Olympics
Free Gaza Campaign
Cheney: Palestinian State Long Overdue
The NYTimes Headline: But...Cheney Doesn't Do 'Peace Missions'
2 McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned
Palestine Conf - 8-10 August 2008
ISRAEL - How Embarrassing So Much Fawning Support The amount of support being shown for Israel these days is almost embarrassing. The parade of highly-placed foreign guests and the warm reception rece ... more
Egypt treads a fine diplomatic line
White House Admits Destruction of Hard Drives with Missing Email
U.S. Pushed Allies on Iraq to Ignite War, Diplomat Writes The rough-and-tumble diplomatic strategy has generated lasting "bitterness" and "deep mistrust" in Washington's relations with allies in Europe, Lati ... more
U.S. Urged to Push Hamas-Israel Truce
How Ryan Seacrest Has Turned His Name Into a Household One
Israeli offensive boosts Hamas in Gaza
Attacks Kill 57 in Iraq; Green Zone Hit
China May Be New Land of Opportunity
Hezbollah Triples Rocket Force as War Scares Escalate
WAR Fears between Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Iran
IRAN Targeted by Neocon International Movement
A Neo-Conservative International Targets Iran
The Long Fuse to the Iraq War
The Collapse of American Power - PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS The Collapse of American Power
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
In his famous book, The Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnet ... more
The Collapse of American Power
I fought for my land against the US. Now I fight alongside them
HEADLINE INDEX FOR MARCH 26, 2008 EDITION
IRAQ invasion was the greatest foreign policy mistake since 1945 You want a debate, though, we'll have a debate. Is the region safer? No. Is the world safer? No. Is the West safer? No. Are the Iraqi people safer? No ... more
The Gaza Bombshell After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and ... more
Money can’t buy you love (but it can make you happy) The more people donate to charity or buy gifts for loved ones or friends, the more likely they are to feel better about themselves, a team led by Eli ... more
Dispatches: Iraq - The Betrayal Peter Oborne accompanies the UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, as he travels across Iraq, meeting the main players who will determine the future ... more
Pope risks Muslim anger by baptising controversial Muslim journalist
Vatican PR ensures rebranded Pope Benedict XVI will triumph in US
Mobile phone that wants to make you fit
Intel to release low-cost laptop in the West
Father of Iran’s drive for nuclear warhead named
Tibetan revolt has China's empire fraying at the edge
A Beijing boycott won't work Between now and August, calls for a boycott of the Games in Beijing will echo around the world to show revulsion at China's support of the Sudanese re ... more
A war of utter folly - Hans Blix Responsibility for this spectacular tragedy must lie with those who ignored the facts five years ago
Attacks Escalating in Baghdad including Green Zone
Iraq - Green Zone Comes Under 15-Minute Missile Attack
Osama Son Says Negotiate To End 'War on Terrorism' Bin Ladin son urges talks
The son of Al Qaida terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden stated last week that the United States should negotiate with his fat ... more
Obama Back On top Of Hillary after Minister Tapes
Int4erviewing MegaMinister John Hagee
Pope Baptizes Prominent Italian Muslim Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a bapt ... more
China's Strategic Pacific Ambitions China officers seriously called for a divided Pacific
The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said last week that China proposed dividing up the ... more
JK Rowling: I considered suicide after my first marriage fell apart
On board the world's first 'gigayacht'
U.S. Strategic Command readies for war both in outer space and cyberspace
Dalai Lama and his allies are out to destroy Olympics, says China
VIDEO - Tibet WAS,IS,and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China
Cheney oil mission to Middle East to answer burning question: 'What about Iran?
VIDEO - Tibet The Story Of A Tragedy
A Beijing boycott won't work
Are these the ten greatest ads of all time?
Steer clear of Iran central bank, says US Washington has called on international financial institutions to steer clear of doing business with Iran’s central bank, in the US’s most wide-ranging ... more
Liasons at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington
Arab Man suspecting of Norwegian student's murder had 'playboy lifestyle'
Analysis: Saudi Arabia and the Vatican News that the Vatican is in behind the scenes contacts with the Saudi authorities over opening a Roman Catholic church in Saudi Arabia follows a serie ... more
New Cell Phones Dance Across the World Stage
MacBook Air Versus PC Ultraportable Laptops
Hillary's 3 AM Girl Likes Obama, Makes Own Ad
Cheney to Middle East - Oil and IRAN
Chinese plans to CRUSH Tibet Revolt
German Jewish leader criticizes Pope over prayer The leader of Germany's Jewish community said on Friday she was surprised Pope Benedict could have allowed a new version of a Good Friday prayer for t ... more
Big Bank Bail-Out Coming from Central Banks
Five Years of War: Let the Country Divide, and Get Out
Tips From a World Traveler Leave the laptop at home, copy and paste blog posts, don't rely on your cell phone, and more tips.
Story behind the story: The Clinton myth One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winni ... more
Is the Pentagon Policy Shop Funding Likudist Fronts?
Losing the Future: What else could we do with $3 trillion?
Money can’t buy you love (but it can make you happy) Money can’t buy you love (but it can make you happy)
Freedom plea for Tariq Aziz, Saddam's dying apologist Ziad Aziz demanded that his father should be charged or released. “Five years is enough to punish him,” he told The Times. “He was part of the regime, ... more
Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club
Partying Like It’s 1929
Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage March 19, 2008
Editorial
Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage
There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians a ... more
Poll Shows Most Palestinians Favor Violence Over Talks RAMALLAH, West Bank — A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the attack this month on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem t ... more
Green Cards for SEX
Iraq: Five years in Five years on, it seems positively surreal.
Obama grabs the spotlight in Europe, too "Obamania is becoming a reality in Europe," Bombard said in a telephone interview Thursday. "The hype surrounding his speech this week was quite somet ... more
Obama grabs the spotlight in Europe, too "Obamania is becoming a reality in Europe," Bombard said in a telephone interview Thursday. "The hype surrounding his speech this week was quite somet ... more
As Iraq war goes on, U.S. risks losing its future military leaders The Iraqis have learned that these captains, many still in their 20s, can call down devastating U.S. firepower one day and approve multimillion-dollar ... more
Sovereign funds agree to avoid 'geopolitical goals' in U.S. investments
After the End of the Affair - Spitzer et. al.
At island retreat, Branson and friends seek to save a world 'on fire' But the big question that hung over the meeting was whether the nations or the world could ever work together to tackle climate change and emissions o ... more
Professors Strike Back
Clinton Sr. Praises McCain
Obama's Pastor at LBJ's Bedside
The Collapse of American Power The Collapse of American Power
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
In his famous book, The Collapse of British Power (1972), Correlli Barnett ... more
The Collapse of American Power
Barack Obama’s Speech on Race - Transcript
Photograph of Bill Clinton and Rev. Wright Surfaces
At island retreat, Branson and friends seek to save a world 'on fire'
Election 2008: Electoral College Update When “leaners” are added to the total, the Democrats lead with 247 Electoral Votes to 229 for the GOP. A total of 270 Electoral Votes are needed to wi ... more
Reuters BEARING WITNESS - 5 Years of War in Iraq
Obama passport files violated
Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq
Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq
US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Introducing ThinkPad X300
Building the Perfect Laptop
Rasmussen Reports
The Folks Who Brought You Iraq
In Remote China, Tibetans Break Silence
State Dept. Accused of Wasting Millions, Bringing 'Worst of America' to Iraq State Dept. Accused of Wasting Millions, Bringing 'Worst of America' to Iraq
Daily Tracking Polls - 2008 Election
Pastor Wright: This Too Shall Pass
Just 8% Have Favorable Opinion of Pastor Jeremiah Wright
McCain Staffer Suspended for Anti-Obama YouTube Mash-Up Video From the related Politico link: An aide to John McCain was suspended from the campaign for blasting out an inflammatory video that raises questions a ... more
Brutal Iraq war enters sixth year
Fox Producer Accosted at Leftist Conference After Jesse Jackson Interview Fox Producer Accosted at Leftist Conference After Jesse Jackson Interview
Fox Producer Accosted at Leftist Conference After Jesse Jackson Interview Fox Producer Accosted at Leftist Conference After Jesse Jackson Interview
McCain Lead Widening Fast The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows John McCain’s lead growing against both potential Democratic opponents. McCa ... more
McCain Lead Widening Fast The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows John McCain’s lead growing against both potential Democratic opponents. McCa ... more
New Usama bin Laden Tape Slams Palestinian Negotiations, Urges Holy War for Liberation Pan-Arab Al-Jazeera TV on Thursday broadcast what it described as excerpts from a new audio tape by Usama bin Laden in which the Al Qaeda leader slamm ... more
Worsening polls reveal Obama's pastor problem
Minister's Remarks Unlikely to Fade Soon Even if Hillary Rodham Clinton and her aides do not mention Barack Obama's fiery-tongued spiritual mentor, don't expect the Illinois senator's well-pu ... more
Te-Ping Chen '07: Last stop: Beijing
Ten must-see Jeremiah Wright videos - Obama's Reverend Here's a selection of the top ten must-see videos on the Reverend Wright controversy currently circulating on the web. From the soundbites that trigge ... more
Bush insists Iraq war was a success as bin Laden threatens Europe on anniversary
Video Obama - The Cost of the IRAQ War - 20 March 2008
Polls show Barack Obama damaged by link to Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Iraq: the candidates' stance, then and now
Shin Bet blog lifts lid on Israeli secret service Recruitment can be tough if you're one of the world's most ruthless undercover agencies, whose operatives are known to disguise themselves, slip into ... more
Washington's Mayflower....
Democrats seize on McCain's Iraq gaffe during Middle East tour
The $3 Trillion War - Vanity Fair After wildly lowballing the cost of the Iraq conflict at a mere $50 to $60 billion, the Bush administration has been concealing the full economic toll ... more
Iraq News - Times on Line
Neocons and their supporters have lost the argument The Great Divide: Times writers continue the debate that still splits the country
How Bremer adn the Neocons Screwed Up Iraq - Page 1 NYTimes March 2008
20 weird and wonderful workout DVDs We rate the best and worst. Learn Justin Timberlake's moves, go Dirty Dancing or do yoga with Shilpa Shetty - if you dare
A RESPONSIBLE PLAN TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ
The Impact of Five Years in Iraq on U.S. National Security CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS MARKS FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF IRAQ WAR WITH A SERIES OF EVENTS
Iran and Israel Poised for Possible Military Clash over Mughniyeh’s Death
Abbas Goes on the Warpath, Tries to Steal the Show from Hamas
Bush Embarks on Saudi-Brokered Deal with Tehran
Pentagon Brass at odds over Troops for IRAQ
U.S. May Relent on Hamas Role in Talks
VIDEO - The Iraq War Invasion - 5 Year Anniversary - THE TIMES of LONDON
Vatican rejects bin Laden's new "crusade" charges The Vatican rejected on Thursday new accusations by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that the publication of cartoons mocking Islam's Prophet Mohammad ... more
R.I.P., Neoconservatism. Book review: `They Knew They Were Right`
Robert Fisk: The cult of the suicide bomber Never before has the Arab world witnessed a phenomenon of suicide-death on this scale. During Israel's occupation of Lebanon after 1982, one Hizbollah ... more
Bush's Mideast Pipe Dream
Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Consider Public Service, Offers Tuition Break
IRAQ - 5 Years -
A Nation of Refugees America's decision to topple Saddam Hussein has left Iraqis a people uprooted. Iraq's Ministry of Health estimates that 180,000 Iraqis have been kille ... more
Obama's Reverend
In Tibetan Areas, Parallel Worlds Now Collide
Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)
The Technological Divide Between Parents and Their Children
Bin Laden Threatens EU Over Caricatures "The response will be what you see and not what you hear and let our mothers bereave us if we do not make victorious our messenger of God," said a vo ... more
Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program
Cheney Prepares Regional Allies for War with IRAN Israel is the only regional nation willing to actively participate in an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites; its military has been putting together plans ... more
Controversial Religious Advisers Bring Scrutiny
Ex-Obama Advisor Who Made Clinton ‘Monster’ Comment Gives First Interview to ‘The Colbert Report’
Cheney Promotes New US-Iraq Agreement
Bush Says Iraq War Was Worth It "If we were to allow our enemies to prevail in Iraq, the violence that is now declining would accelerate and Iraq could descend into chaos," Bush sai ... more
Sunni bloc boycotts Iraq unity conference
McCain backs Jerusalem as 'Israeli capital' US Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday he supports Israel's claim to the holy city of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish st ... more
Obama Parses Wright & Wrong in Race Speech
Obama's Big Race Speech - 18 March 2008
Boycotting Opening Of China Olympics Gains Ground
OBAMA SPEECH IN FULL: A MORE PERFECT UNION OBAMA SPEECH IN FULL: A MORE PERFECT UNION
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008/ 10:17:53 ET
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“We the people, in order to form a mor ... more
WSJ Vote - Better or Worse in IRAQ
Join the Iraq War debate? Don't bother The case is closed: invasion was the greatest foreign policy mistake since 1945
IRAQ - 5 Year Anniversary - THE TIMES of LONDON
Heather Mills throws water over Paul McCartney lawyer over £24.3m divorce
Dalai Lama threatens to 'resign' over Tibet violence His comments appeared to be designed to re-assert his moral authority and to quell the unrest that has spread to neighbouring Tibetan areas as Chinese ... more
A city is redrawn by the death squads, bombs and beheadings Sectarian bloodshed has torn Baghdad into a patchwork of ghettos
IRAQ Better or Worse - A Wall Street Journal On Line Poll on 17 March 2008, the Five Year Anniversary of the Invasion
Intelligence paints grim picture for Israel Intelligence agencies were to paint a bleak picture of threats facing Israel in an annual assessment on Sunday that comes on the heels of the deadlies ... more
Kosovo rioting forces UN peacekeepers out of Serb-dominated Mitrovica The UN ordered its police to pull out of a Serb-dominated town in northern Kosovo today after troops and officers were injured in a riot by hundreds o ... more
Diplomatic 'surge' to boost Middle East peace With the Middle East peace process at its lowest ebb since being revived last year, a diplomatic “surge” is to take place in the coming months, culmin ... more
Bremer: Dismantled IRAQ Army Against Plans
IRAQ - Hunting for a home - Interactive Map
Dark Future For IRAQ - WSJ online poll WALL STREET JOURNAL DOW JONES ONLINE POLL: Have the U.S.'s actions in Iraq made the country's future brighter or darker?
Brighter Darke ... more
Iraq, 5 Years On, A Nation of Refugees America's decision to topple Saddam Hussein has left Iraqis a people uprooted. Iraq's Ministry of Health estimates that 180,000 Iraqis have been kille ... more
Bear Sterns Nearly Worthless - Collapsing from $3.5billion worth
Serbs in Kosovo fight U.N. and NATO Troops
Mideast Players Differ On Approach to Hamas A bipartisan group of foreign-policy luminaries, including former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, issued a stateme ... more
An Assistant Who May Need the Occasional Battery The robot, called ConnectR and not yet on the market, is being tested by its manufacturer, iRobot, said Colin Angle, chief executive. It is expected t ... more
Row over BBC drama which shows Jesus crucified in a foetal position
Crazy Goofey Boy George Boy George crashed the family station wagon into the globe and now the global economy. Yet the more terrified Americans get, the more bizarrely carefr ... more
Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq To mark this week’s fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the Op-Ed page asked nine experts on military and foreign affairs to reflect on their ... more
China's private firms set sights on rest of world
Obama's Reverend in the Act
Palestinian Old Guard: Defiance and Regret
US and Jordan Training/Arming Palestinians to Fight Hamas
Arabs to be featured in 2009 at Kennedy Center
Barak Defies U.S., Undermines Condi
Israelis Worry of Counter Hezbollah Assassination
Pentagon: Hezbollah Model Now the Threat to U.S.
Bernard Lewis: IRAN now Targeted and the grand old Neocon is 'Optimistic'
New Pakistan Says Wash Post
New York Times - FIVE YEARS
Neoconservatism. Book review: `They Knew They Were Right`
Rice Criticizes Saudis, Not Doing Enough!
New anti-Semitism disguised by hatred of Israel, report says Jews worldwide are facing a new form of anti-Semitism disguised by hatred toward Israel, in addition to more traditional forms of anti-Semitism, a new ... more
Neocons Applaud Admiral Fallon Sacking
BARAK of ISRAEL! Blood, War and Terror
A PROPOS: who is really in charge in Israel at this time?
This week's events point to the answer: the man who makes the decisions is Ehud Barak, th ... more
The Bethlehem Mafia-Stype Israeli Hit
The emphasis is on the word "Jewish". In his statement, Barak took care not to speak about persons "with blood on their hands", but about those "with ... more
In Jerusalem, American Jewish Leader Frets Over Obama, Ron Paul, Walt and Mearsheimer Hoenlein said that Israel's supporters should be worried by... "the greater tolerance of anti-Israel statements that wouldn't have been allowed in the ... more
Has Obama Trapped the Israel Lobby? A Theory...
Intelligence paints grim picture for Israel "We should pass a resolution or change the law if necessary so that the family of anyone who carries out an attack... should have their residency perm ... more
"Star Wars II": Return Of Missile Defense
Spitzer Caught Up In Israel-Controlled Sex Money Blackmail Op? “Significantly, the Spitzer sex sting has been handled very gingerly by Israeli media. The coverage is extremely subdued for news involving one of the ... more
Foxman and Wisse Attack Assimilation, Foxman Saying It Makes Jews Less Selfish
Christians Flee IRAQ It's thought about half the Christian population of Iraq has moved - the majority to Syria, fewer to Jordan and some to northern Iraq
Robert Fisk: The cult of the suicide bomber Few players in the 'war on terror' are more chilling, or misunderstood, than suicide bombers. Yet the true scale of their grisly activities has never ... more
Chomsky: We Own The World As few people know, a couple of months earlier there were extensive polls in Iraq, U.S.-run polls, with interesting results. They were not secret here ... more
Washington Post Columnist Gives AIPAC Talks on How to Help Israel in `08 Election
IRAQ - 5 Years and Counting
Homeless Tent City Rises Near L.A. He fears that, as more people lose their homes in what appears to be a deepening housing market collapse, more former homeowners could end up in place ... more
Top Rabbi Forbids Hiring Arabs
Most Iraqis Want U.S. Out
GAO chief resigns, giving dire warning about national debt
Dividing Jerusalem: Inevitable This is part of the complicated dance now going on; and it is in fact a position being advocated by the Israeli lobby for crafty reasons at this point ... more
Israel Threatens Damascus
IRAQ - Those Responsible Must Be Held to Account - Biana Jagger Surely it is time now to admit that the war was a disaster. I urge Brown to have the strength and the integrity to do the right thing, to admit the mi ... more
China's private firms set sights on rest of world Amid the torrent of clothes, electronics and toys surging out of China comes a little-noticed export: international companies.
For centuries, individ ... more
U.S. Military More Worried about China
Military Commander Says DO NOT Cut U.S. Special Forces in IRAQ
Bernard Lewis 'Optimistically' Whips Up War with IRAN
Failed and Deceptive IRAQ Surge The notion that somehow we have succeeded as a consequence of the recent reductions in violence means that we have set the bar so low it's buried in t ... more
Obama's Big Pastor Problem
Sunnis Who 'Switched' to U.S. Still Condemn Americans and Bush “When American soldiers turn up I feel very sad for myself, my country and the fact that I have to sit down and deal with them. I feel like wolves are ... more
Professor Hisham Ahmed Interviewed by Mark Bruzonsky in March 2008 on Iraq, Palestine, and the dangerous situation throughout today's Middle East
DoubleTwist Adds Vital Missing Elements to ITunes and Facebook
FED Discards Monetary History With Bear Stearns Bailout
Pope: Enough With Slaughters in Iraq Pope Benedict XVI issued one of his strongest appeals for peace in Iraq on Sunday, days after the body of the kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop w ... more
Why Spitzer and Powerful Men Do It
Dems Losing War over Iraq War - Price Will Be Paid in Nov While Clinton and Obama trade blows, the Republicans are slowly winning the war over the war. And Democrats are doing very little to stop them. ....Al ... more
Biaca Jagger - FIVE YEARS OF UNWINNABLE WAR The Iraq war was always illegal and unwinnable. Gordon Brown must now name the date for withdrawal
Al-Qaida IRAQ much stronger than U.S. Admits
Protesters across the world condemn Iraq war
I fought for my land against the US. Now I fight alongside them An Iraqi tells our correspondent of his long and violent journey to the side of the alliance forces
Running from Basra The last generation that fought a war of this duration and intensity is dying out. Our generation is struggling to come to terms with this one. It see ... more
Neocons and their supporters have lost the argument
Ticking bomb of Iraq’s forgotten refugee children Living in squalor and fearful of sectarian attack, the plight of 2.5m homeless people is at the heart of the nation’s ills
Toppling of the Luv Guv is ‘Wall Street revenge’ Eliot Spitzer’s downfall as governor last week may have roots in pursuit of wealthy bankers while state attorney-general
Debating Hamas, Debating Debate, and Calling Names - American Jews In Mud Fights Indeed, it is interesting that there seems to be a far greater tolerance for debate among Israelis in Israel than there is among the Jewish community ... more
Israelis Stiff Americans Just as the American VP heads to Israel and the Middle East, this little snub to the envoy of Condi Rice and supposedly George Bush. Hmmmm.... ... more
Walmart's Arab-American Outreach
Blogtalk: Pro-Clinton Bloggers Boycott Kos
Getting Out of the Mess the Neocons Made http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/us/politics/15web-cooper.html
Barack's Not Jewish/Israeli Enough Middle East Adviser - Robert Malley And yet, Mr. Malley has been targeted by a handful of Jewish bloggers as anti-Israel, and a sign that Mr. Obama, too, if elected president, would carr ... more
The $3 Trillion War After wildly lowballing the cost of the Iraq conflict at a mere $50 to $60 billion, the Bush administration has been concealing the full economic toll ... more
Archbishop Kidnapped and Killed in IRAQ
Despite his grief, a Palestinian calls for peace It has been a long journey for Aramin, 38, a former fighter. He spent seven years in Israeli jails, from 1986 to 1993, for weapons possession and belo ... more
Palestinians in Bethlehem Unite For Funeral The Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, said Thursday: "Yesterday in Bethlehem, we again proved that the state of Israel will continue to hunt and t ... more
Obama Hit Hard and on Defense about Church and Pastor
Thousands attend funeral for killed Palestinian militants "The Palestinian Authority doesn't control an inch of the West Bank," said Shawqi Issa, the director of Ensan Center for Human Rights in Bethlehem. "I ... more
U.S. commanders: Al-Qaeda in Iraq to stay t's not a conclusion the White House talks about much when denouncing the shadowy group, known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, that used the U.S. invasion five y ... more
Gere sees Olympics boycott if China mishandles Tibet First Mia Farrow and other celebs raised the prospect of a boycott of the China Olympics because of Darfur. Then Stephen Spielberg withdrew his 'crea ... more
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