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Akbar Ganji, the celebrated Iranian journalist and former political prisoner who will be honored with the Cato Institute’s Milton Friedman Liberty Prize for 2010 Thursday, spoke at the National Press Club here Monday, and, while he didn’t break any especially new ground, it’s worth noting a few things that he said about his views of [...]
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week attempting to mend fences with the Obama administration, but Fouad Ajami, for one, isn’t buying it. In an interview released yesterday on the National Review website, Ajami — the neoconservative-aligned Middle East scholar best known as one of the intellectual godfathers of the Iraq war — [...]
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You just have to shake your head over the Israeli government’s newly launched world-wide public relations campaign to discredit Richard Goldstone, the South African judge whose UN-commissioned investigation concluded that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during Israel’s 2008 invasion of the Gaza Strip. The daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported somewhat breathlessly on May 6th [...]
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When I last paid attention to Lou Dobbs, he was giving voice to birther conspiracy theories and going on increasingly hostile diatribes about illegal immigrants. For this he was paid a generous severance package (rumored to be in the range of $8 million) by CNN .
That was in November. But Dobbs hasn’t simply dropped off [...]
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Neo-cons and aggressive nationalists — two of the three components (along with Christian Zionists) that brought us the Iraq War — are once again organizing themselves in the face of what they see as an abandonment of the “Peace Through Strength” policies of their heroes, Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Ronald Reagan. No doubt generously [...]
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Afghan Escalation Funding
More War, Fewer Jobs, Poor Excuses
By David Swanson
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Isn’t it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
Early in 2009, President Barack Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan with 21,000 “combat” troops, 13,000 “support” troops, and at least 5,000 mercenaries, without any [...]
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On May 6, just before dawn, Ameer Makhoul was arrested. Initial reports state that the Haifa home of the director of Ittijah, a network of NGOs and grassroots organizations representing the interests of Arab citizens of Israel, was invaded by 16 Israeli security agents police officers…On May 7, the IAEA released the preliminary agenda for its June 2010 meeting, and for the very first time, Israel’s nuclear program is slated to be scrutinized as never before.
So?
Tags: Ameer Makhoul, Amir Makhoul, Dimona nuclear reactor, IAEA, israel, Israeli nuclear program, Issam, Ittijah, Knesset, Mordechai Vanunu, NPT, NPT Review Conference, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Have you noticed that there seems to be a very high correlation between angry citizens in Arizona who favor a major seal-the-border surge to cut off entry for illegal immigrants, and the Tea Partiers who continue to grab the headlines by shouting at the government to get smaller and stay out of our lives?
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Blood or Treasure?
Obama’s Crucial Choice in the Middle East
By Ira Chernus
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Writing about U.S. Middle East policy used to be a boring job. You’d start out with “The U.S. supports Israel’s stand on…” and then just fill in the details. No longer. Many pundits claim to smell the winds of [...]
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From Josh Rogin’s excellent “Cable” blog at foreignpolicy.com today:
Dennis Ross links Middle East peace to Iran
Posted By Josh Rogin Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – 6:16 PM
The National Security Council’s Dennis Ross is the latest U.S. official to link the Obama administration’s drive to secure peace between Israelis and Arabs to the overall goal of bringing [...]
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