Tag: Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Iran and Israel: Only Half the Story

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Revolution One Year Later

Reports: Fewer and Fewer Reasons for the West to Fixate on the Mideast

Ear to the Ground: America’s Christmas Present to Her Favorite Despots

Cartoons: Iraq Wound

Cartoons: Egypt Chaos

Reports: Making Repression Our Business: The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East

Cartoons: Islamic Spring

Reports: The Fog in Our Future

Reports: Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

Truthdig Podcast: The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street

A/V Booth: The Spiritual Side of Occupy Wall Street

A/V Booth: President Obama: ‘America’s War in Iraq Will Be Over’ by Year-End

Ear to the Ground: Indian Summer for Arab Spring?

Ear to the Ground: Jimmy Carter Still Has Hope

Reports: Palestine Vote Showcases the Decline of American Power

Arts and Culture: The Muslim World Brings Forth a Counter-Jihad

Cartoons: Middle East Dominoes

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Tensions Mount in Revolution Central

Cartoons: Arab Spring Monster

Reports: Prosecuting War Crimes? Be Sure to Read the Fine Print

A/V Booth: Robert Baer on Libya and Blowback

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Flagman and ‘Our Martyrs in Sinai’

Ear to the Ground: Israel’s Insatiable Zionism

A/V Booth: London Riots: The View From Brixton

Cartoons: U.S. Dollars for Taliban

A/V Booth: Israel Is Likely to Attack Iran, CIA Veteran Robert Baer Warns

Cartoons: Afghan Withdrawal Pains

Cartoons: Bashar al-Assad

Cartoons: Cellphone Use

Reports: Turkey in Position to Lead Region Out of Tumultuous Century

Ear to the Ground: Kurds Want to Give Turkey a Taste of Spring

Reports: Reflections on Israel: From Idealism to Ethnic Cleansing

Ear to the Ground: Abandon Ship and/or Yemen

A/V Booth: Netanyahu Brings Congress to Its Feet ... 29 Times

Cartoons: Two-State Solution

Reports: The Speech Obama Should Have Given to AIPAC

Ear to the Ground: Going After the Mini-Mubaraks

Cartoons: Tanksgiving

Ear to the Ground: Obama Responds to a Changing Mideast in Arab Spring Speech

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Big Middle East Speech Will Avoid a Big Issue

Ear to the Ground: Obama Readies Another Appeal to Muslim World

Ear to the Ground: Israel, U.S. Maneuver After Palestinians Get Together

Cartoons: Graphic bin Laden Picture

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: What It All Means for Pakistan and the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: Syrian Security Forces Besiege City With Tanks, Snipers

Ear to the Ground: Armenian Remembrance and the Politics of Genocide

Ear to the Ground: Syria Moves to End Emergency Rule

Arts and Culture: No Bibi for Bieber

Ear to the Ground: Saudis Play Into Radical islam’s Hands

Reports: U.S. Can’t Resist Meddling in the Middle East

Cartoons: Crowd Control

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Days Are Numbered’ for Gadhafi’s Government

Reports: What About Syria?

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Cartoons: Palestine

Ear to the Ground: Activist App: ‘Panic Button’ for Cellphones

Reports: Be Consistent—Invade Saudi Arabia

Reports: Those Useful Tyrants

Cartoons: Marquis de Saudi

Ear to the Ground: Cops Disperse Syrian Funeral for Protesters

Ear to the Ground: Warren Christopher Dies at 85

Ear to the Ground: At Least 35 Dead in Yemen Protests

Cartoons: You Bet Your Sweet Gas!

A/V Booth: Truthdig Radio: Osama bin Laden and Nuclear Meltdown

Truthdig Podcast: Truthdig Radio: Osama bin Laden and Nuclear Meltdown

Reports: American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check

Reports: The Revenge of God

Ear to the Ground: Fed Makes More Hopeful Noises

Cartoons: Sandstorm

Reports: Obama Has 11 Options in Libya, None Ideal

Ear to the Ground: Foreign Leaders Work on Terms of Libyan No-Fly Zone

Ear to the Ground: Protests Banned in Saudi Arabia

Arts and Culture: Warning From a ‘Burning Land’

Reports: Arab Revolutions Need Not Be Americanized

Reports: What to Do About the Mad Colonel

Ear to the Ground: Libya Wants Defectors’ Jets Back

Ear to the Ground: Gadhafi Blames Revolt on al-Qaida, Drugs

Cartoons: Bracketology

Cartoons: Liberate Libya

Reports: Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest

Ear to the Ground: A New Wave of Protests

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Ray McGovern

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Victory Celebration

Ear to the Ground: Libyans Have Their ‘Day of Rage’

Ear to the Ground: Clinton’s Cautious Words for Bahrain

Ear to the Ground: Bahrain Joins the Middle East Protest Movement

Cartoons: Uprising

Reports: How the U.S. Should Respond to the New Arab World

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Ear to the Ground: Iran Has an Uprising of Its Own

Reports: With Democracy or Against It—There’s No In Between

Cartoons: Barney the Dictator

Ear to the Ground: Egypt’s Effects Go Beyond Its Borders

Reports: A Flat for Mohammed

A/V Booth: Yemeni President’s Departure Announcement Met With Skepticism

Reports: American-Israeli Policy Tested by Arab Uprisings

Ear to the Ground: Mubarak Plans His (Eventual) Exit

A/V Booth: Raw Video: Cairo, Tuesday Night

Cartoons: Dictator Dominoes

Reports: Push Has Now Come to Shove

Reports: What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt

A/V Booth: ‘It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth’

Reports: The Lives of Dictators

Reports: Tunisian Revolution Shakes, Inspires Middle East

A/V Booth: Israel’s Lieberman Says Peace Will Have to Wait

Reports: Wrong Again, Sen. Graham

Reports: Foreign Policy Review Suggests a Losing Effort

Reports: Obama’s 2010 Successes and Failures in the Middle East

Reports: Leaks Suggest Iran Is Now Winning in the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Brazil Recognizes Palestine

Ear to the Ground: Israel on a PR Campaign

Reports: The World Is Safer Without a Republican House

Ear to the Ground: Labor Party Threatens to Walk Out of Israeli Government

Ear to the Ground: Three Myths Every President Should Avoid

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Holds Rally at Lebanon-Israel Border

Reports: Ahmadinejad and the Limits of American and Israeli Power

Cartoons: The Bulldozer

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejaunt to the Israeli Border

Cartoons: The Belts

Cartoons: Mental State of Their Own

Reports: Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on Tensions Between the West and the Muslim World

Ear to the Ground: Mideast Peace Within a Year?

Reports: The Ambiguity of War’s End

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: U.S. Troops Leave Iraq; ‘Mosque’-troversy

Reports: Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab

Ear to the Ground: Afghans Plan for Security Takeover By 2014

Ear to the Ground: Turkey Ratchets Up Tensions With Israel Over Gaza Flotilla Incident

Ear to the Ground: Good Luck With the Whole Gaza List Thing, Tony Blair

Reports: Stealth Superpower: How Turkey Is Chasing China in Bid to Become the Next Big Thing

Reports: Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hard-Liners

Cartoons: Could Be Worse

Ear to the Ground: Israel: No to Middle East Nuke Talks

Ear to the Ground: Secret U.S. Plans for Clandestine Mideast Military Activity Brought to Light

Ear to the Ground: Said What?

Ear to the Ground: The Dictatorship That Cried Wolf

Ear to the Ground: Obama Urges Abbas to Negotiate With Israel

Ear to the Ground: New Mideast Peace Talks Already on the Rocks

Ear to the Ground: PLO Opens Way for Negotiations

Ear to the Ground: Builder Bibi Won’t Budge on East Jerusalem

Arts and Culture: Dubai Says No to ‘Sex’

Ear to the Ground: Iran Casts a Vote in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: A Plague in Time for Passover

Ear to the Ground: Rifts Persist Between Israel, U.S. After Netanyahu Visit

Ear to the Ground: Clinton to AIPAC: ‘Status Quo Is Unsustainable’ in Middle East

Arts and Culture: Study Says Fido’s Family Tree Has Arabian Roots

Cartoons: Peace Talks

Reports: The Truth About American and Israeli Interests Comes Out

Reports: Getting a Read on the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Diplomacy by Proxy

Cartoons: It’s Raining Men

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’

Reports: State of Denial: Searching for Peace in Israel

Ear to the Ground: 90 Feared Dead in Lebanon Plane Crash

A/V Booth: Haiti: A View From the Middle East

Reports: Obama’s Alternate Universe

Reports: Walls Never Work—in the Middle East or in Ireland

A/V Booth: Iran Protest Videos

Ear to the Ground: Carter Atones for ‘Stigmatizing’ Israel

Arts and Culture: These Iranian Troubadours Show How Music Can Corrupt the Soul

Ear to the Ground: Abbas: Obama Hasn’t Helped Mideast Peace Process

Ear to the Ground: Rabin Turns in His Grave

Reports: The New State Solution

Ear to the Ground: Hezbollah, Fearing War, Digs In

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Hits Another Diplomatic Snag on Mideast Tour

Cartoons: Prize for Hope [A Cartoon From Austria]

Ear to the Ground: Muslims a Fourth of World’s Population

Ear to the Ground: 150,000 Yemenis Displaced in Conflict

Ear to the Ground: Obama: No Preconditions on Mideast Peace Talks

Ear to the Ground: Mideast Peace Talks Yield Only a Handshake

A/V Booth: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Stopped in Its Tracks?

Ear to the Ground: Israeli PM Won’t Halt Settlement Construction

Ear to the Ground: Axis of Obstinacy: Israel Rebukes Diplomat for Challenging Settlements

A/V Booth: Yemen: A Powder Keg Ready to Explode

A/V Booth: Who Speaks for the Palestinians?

Reports: Gulf War Legacy Flares as Kuwait Puts the Squeeze on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Three Dead, Eight Wounded in Shooting at Tel Aviv Gay Center

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Soldiers Blame Loose Rules for Gaza Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Iran Election Watchdog Stands by Results

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

Cartoons: More Than the Sum of 140 Characters

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t ‘Meddle’ in Iran

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Wins Dubious Election

Ear to the Ground: Hearts and Minds Redux

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Cartoons: Naysayers

A/V Booth: LRC: Obama in the Middle East, GM in Bankruptcy, Now What?

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

A/V Booth: Obama’s Cairo Speech

Ear to the Ground: U.S.-Israel on the Rocks

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Ear to the Ground: Gaza Probe Gets No Help From Israel

Reports: War-Addicted U.S. Afflicted With Imperialist Hangover

A/V Booth: Bibi and Barack Talk Mideast Peace

A/V Booth: Swine Flu Hysteria Hits the Middle East

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