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By Kurt Vonnegut
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By Richard Schickel — I don’t know how much of the picture—beyond its basic premise—is “true.” And, frankly, I don’t give a damn.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —
It seems that the first rule of the presidential debate club now is: no disagreeing on what matters most. Here are five critical questions that should be explored (even if all of us know that they won’t be) in the foreign policy-inclusive presidential debates scheduled for October 16th, and 22nd.
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Reece Lodder
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By William Pfaff — It is no surprise to find a businessman who is clueless with respect to America’s international relations, but when a businessman is running for the American presidency, you would expect an effort to read and learn.
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney claims to disagree with President Obama on many aspects of foreign policy. We’re still waiting to hear what those differences might be.
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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Acclaimed social philosopher Noam Chomsky wants you to know that presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are ignoring two of the gravest threats to humankind: climate change and nuclear war.
Posted on Oct 6, 2012
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Iran wouldn’t be stupid enough to attack the United States or Israel with a nuclear bomb, Glenn Greenwald suggests in The Guardian. If it had such a weapon, it would be for the purpose of deterring American aggression.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
A congressman, two retired military officials and a former deputy attorney general denounced President Barack Obama at a recent news conference for overstepping his authority in wartime and warned that unless war powers are restored to Congress the country could soon be involved in a battle with Iran and its allies.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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Even though drones are killing more civilians in Pakistan than terrorist leaders, they play no role in the U.S. presidential campaigns; California passes a bill legalizing self-driving cars; meanwhile, millionaires like Mitt Romney perpetuate the rags-to-riches tale by denying their roots. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Arcadio Esquivel, Cagle Cartoons, La Prensa, Panama —
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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AP/Seth Wenig
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In a speech delivered Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama condemned the anti-American protests in the Middle East and North Africa that led to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens, while also attempting to “reset U.S. relations” with the region.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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AP/Lior Mizrahi
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By Stanley Kutler — For selfish, political reasons, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has inserted himself into the American presidential election. American Jews won’t fall for it.
Posted on Sep 18, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Romney’s rushed statement Tuesday night calling the Obama administration’s response to the violence in the Middle East “disgraceful” was a new low in a campaign already scraping bottom.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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U.S. Army/Pfc. Ryan Hallgarth
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With hostile families, militias and even police on the hunt for gay people, conditions in Iraq are worse than in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the BBC reports.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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White House/Lawrence Jackson
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According to a Haaretz source, the president has no time for the Israeli prime minister during a U.S. visit this month.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The major threat in the Middle East to international peace is Syria’s civil war, not the rhetorical battles between Iran and an Israel that claims to be straining against its American leash.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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AP/Vahid Salemi
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By Juan Cole — President Barack Obama said, “The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions.” The refusal of 120 countries to boycott Iran undermines the point.
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird (right) cited Iran’s support for the Assad regime in Syria, its disputed nuclear energy program and persistent human rights violations as reasons for Canada’s ejection of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa and the closing of the Canadian Embassy in Tehran.
Posted on Sep 7, 2012
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told heads of state from nonaligned countries that Tehran “has no interest in nuclear weapons but will keep pursuing peaceful nuclear energy.”
Posted on Aug 30, 2012
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Ian Masters has one hell of an interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, who does not hold back. For instance, he says Condoleezza Rice, who is speaking Wednesday in Tampa, is a perfect mascot for the billionaires “raping and pillaging not only America, but the rest of the world with their predatory form of capitalism.”
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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By Ellen Goodman — So, dear friends, we gather again to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage. We honor our foremothers in our special way by handing out the Equal Rites Awards for those who have done the most to slow down progress.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — As he became president in 1981, Ronald Reagan called in a 34-year-old congressman from Michigan named David Stockman, considered by many to be the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment.
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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Israel’s Channel 10 reported this week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is determined to attack Iran before the U.S. elections” and that Israel is now “closer than ever” to a military strike intended to foil Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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Karina Bolanos, a vice minister in Costa Rica, was let go after a video of her claiming her longing to her lover while clad in underwear was made public on YouTube; Americans apparently throw away nearly half of their food; meanwhile, a 15-year-old used the Internet to create an advanced cancer test. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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By Marissa Roth
“One Person Crying: Women and War,” is a 28-year, global photo essay that addresses the immediate and lingering effects of war on women.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Isaac Lamberth
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By William Pfaff — Nobody in the U.S. and the allied countries, except for the relatives of the victims, gives a damn about Iraq. That will be true of Afghanistan, too, when it’s over. Or when it is replaced by war with Iran.
Posted on Aug 21, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Foreign affairs will be the most important issue of all to address as the United States staggers forward into the void, yet the matter will seldom appear in what’s left of the presidential campaign.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may attempt to exploit election season pressures to get Barack Obama to support an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern writes.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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Digital security experts have discovered a new cyber-surveillance virus in the Middle East that can steal login and password information and spy on banking transactions, system configurations and other data.
Posted on Aug 10, 2012
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AP/Enric Marti
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — Rolling blackouts turn up the heat and turn off the lights; on the political front, Morsi feels heat of a different sort.
Posted on Aug 7, 2012
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The International AIDS Conference is making dangerously impossible promises about putting an end to the epidemic; the London Olympics’ opening ceremonies included a unique tribute to free, universal health care; meanwhile, British graffiti artist Banksy has proved he will not be erased. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jul 29, 2012
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By Tara Bahrampour —
A new biography, “Patriot of Persia,” sympathizes with Muhammad Mossadegh (1882-1967) in his attempt to reform Iran but does not let him off the hook for its failure.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The American public does not want still another war. Surely, that is clear even to the post-neoconservatives raising their heads again in Washington.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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Israel is blaming Iran, its longtime adversary, for the deaths of seven Israeli tourists in a bomb attack on a bus in Burgas, Bulgaria. The bus was carrying 40 members of an Israeli group from the airport to their hotels when the blast occurred.
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, TomDispatch —
The Obama administration is “buying time” in nuclear talks with Iran for covert action to sabotage Tehran’s nuclear program; for sanctions to set the stage for regime change; and for the United States, its European and Sunni Arab partners, and Turkey to weaken the Islamic Republic by overthrowing the Assad government in Syria.
Posted on Jun 20, 2012
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — Results showed a clear majority for Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, over regime candidate Ahmed Shafiq. But watch out for flames shooting from the military dragon.
Posted on Jun 18, 2012
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AP/Vahed Salemi
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Abdolfattah Soltani, a well-known Iranian lawyer who co-founded an organization that defends the rights of women, minorities and political prisoners, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his work and for what Iran’s hard-line judiciary called spreading anti-government propaganda and endangering national security.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison
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By William Pfaff — President Barack Obama’s acts consciously undermine the civilized order of modern society. The United States has quite deliberately made itself an outlaw state.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Jun 9, 2012
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U.S. Army / Spc. Matthew Freire
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By William Pfaff — Counterinsurgency is out. Drones, assassination teams, targeted killings and special forces are in.
Posted on May 29, 2012
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Two days of discussion over Iran’s nuclear program ended in uncertainty Thursday, with Iran maintaining it has the right to enrich nuclear fuel and the lead negotiator for the European Union stating vaguely that “significant problems remain” with the Iranian position. Negotiations are set to resume in June.
Posted on May 24, 2012
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By RJ Matson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch —
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By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch —
Here’s the multi-trillion dollar question: Does the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as economic powers signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s quite possible that on Election Day, voters’ most urgent concerns—economic or not—will be driven by overseas events that neither President Obama nor his Republican opponent can predict or control.
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