31 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Farideh Farhi
The confrontation that took place in the streets of several large cities in Iran on the occasion of Ashura has brought the acrimonious political fight among the Islamic Republic’s elite into focus in significantly different ways than before.
Not only did many protesters demonstrate unprecedented willingness to confront the security [...]
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31 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Justin Raimondo
You’ll have to pardon me if I utter a long, drawn-out sigh, but the prospect of facing yet another year of phony "crises," official fabrications, and Obama-esque double-talk is daunting, to say the least. My task, as I see it, is to unpack the hyperbole, debunk the hysterics, and [...]
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Jeff Huber
Let’s start a war over a deluded rich brat, says Jeff Huber
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM — In the absence of any progress towards peace between Israelis and Palestinians, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) are adopting a reasonable approach as a way of building up international pressure on Israel to get it back to the negotiating table.
Ghassan Khatib, an influential former PA cabinet [...]
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Jim Lobe
As 2009 draws to a close, the big question here is whether President Barack Obama is succeeding in digging out of the hole – international as well as financial — that he inherited from George W. Bush or digging deeper into it.
The answers to that question are both varied and decidedly [...]
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Thalif Deen
When Yemen refused to vote in support of a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution against Iraq during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, a visibly angry U.S. delegate turned to the Yemeni diplomat and said: "That will be the last time you will ever vote against a U.S. resolution."
Washington’s subsequent retaliation, in the [...]
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | John Pilger
The old Brit just had the year wrong, says John Pilger
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Philip Giraldi
Philip Giraldi has suggestions for a humbler foreign policy
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Grant Smith
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) enters its 47th year of
existence battling to extricate itself from two highly damaging civil court
cases. The more recent is Steven J. Rosen’s defamation
suit against AIPAC, which has now entered its most critical phase. The suit
claims AIPAC [...]
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30 December 2009 | Uncategorized | Michael Scheuer
Michael Scheuer on Obama’s ‘bring ‘em on’
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