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A note that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is said to have left on an interior wall of the boat where police found him after the April 15 attacks claimed responsibility for the bombings and described them as retribution for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying the Boston dead were “collateral damage” in the same way Muslims are in the American-led conflicts.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Friday night on Bill Maher’s “Real Time,” Guardian columnist and former civil rights litigator Glenn Greenwald attacked the view that Islam is a “uniquely” threatening force in the world and that Muslims should be deprived of the benefits of the classical liberal values that many groups in the West have struggled to make into policy since the 18th-century Enlightenment.
Posted on May 11, 2013
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Perhaps the most famous living scientist is backing out of a major conference in Jerusalem over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Stephen Hawking came under pressure from an international campaign, but says he made the decision after hearing from his contacts in Palestinian academia.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch —
After Roman legions invaded Egypt, during one of the battles waged by Julius Caesar against the brother of Cleopatra, fire devoured most of the thousands upon thousands of papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria. A pair of millennia later, during George W. Bush’s crusade against an imaginary enemy in Iraq, most of the books in the Library of Baghdad were reduced to ashes.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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With his new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” Jeremy Scahill brings the last decade of the American government’s clandestine war making into the clearest possible focus.
Posted on Apr 27, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
What must the others in the Middle East theater of the American Empire think of a great city in total lockdown from an attack by primitive explosives when Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis and Yemenis experience far greater casualties and terror attacks several times a week?
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — Stéphane Hessel, the French-German author of “Indignez-vous” who died in February at age 95, is a towering figure of 20th-century resistance and an example to those who hope to create the future.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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By Sandy Tolan — Amira Hass, the groundbreaking reporter who has lived in the Palestinian territories for most of the last two decades, defended the rights of Palestinians to throw stones at occupying Israeli forces.
Posted on Apr 10, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Apr 6, 2013
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By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch —
To broker a great peace in the Middle East, the president will have to mollify both the center-left and the right in Israel, balance Israeli and Palestinian demands, march with Netanyahu up to the edge of war with Iran, calibrate the ratcheting up of sanctions on Iran, and prevent the Syrian civil war from spilling into Israel, all while maintaining order between the left and right at home.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Consider the plethora of blood-soaked little anniversaries that Americans could observe, if they cared to, from a decade-plus of the former Global War on Terror.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The administration has set expectations for President Obama’s trip to Israel so low you’d think he was making another visit to Ohio. Yet this is a very consequential journey because it comes at a moment when hopes for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are fading away.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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By William Pfaff — This certainly is not the best of times, nor can it be called the worst of recent times, considering the years of totalitarianism, war and cold war the world lived through in the 20th century, recently closed. But the years since 2000 have provided no auspicious start to the 21st century.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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Mohammed Saba'aneh, Cartoon Movement —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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By Juan Cole — Paul’s strand of libertarianism, insofar as it deeply distrusts big government, typically opposes policies that increase the size and power of government, chief among them ones pertaining to war.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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The Guardian has released a full-length documentary on the ties between “dirty wars” veteran and retired Col. James Steele, who played a crucial role in setting up and overseeing a network of detention and torture centers in Iraq that committed some of the worst acts of torture, and the top brass at the Pentagon.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Governments in the Middle East and across the world are exploiting the long chaos of Syria’s populist uprising to gain influence in the region. And Syrians—70,000 of whom have been killed in the conflict—are paying the price with their bodies and lives.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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By Juan Cole — The foreign policy of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez imagined that socialism and anti-imperialism are the same thing, and that he could lead a new sort of socialist international. These considerations shaped his Middle East policy in ways that were contradictory and hypocritical.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Russia’s weapons merchants are back in the international limelight and the industry is booming.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Juan Cole — The “sequester” is actually, of course, the American form of austerity, or cutbacks in government spending during a recession. Austerity, or stingy government in Europe has kept employment extremely depressed compared to what it would have been with government stimulus, as Paul Krugman argues.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Juan Cole — The announcement by the nation’s leftists and secularists that they will not contest this spring’s elections for the lower house of parliament is a needless disaster that could plunge Egypt into years of unrest.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman, TomDispatch —
Since 2003, the Department of Homeland Security has grown into a miniature Pentagon. But unlike the Pentagon, it draws no attention whatsoever—even though this country has spent an amount of money equivalent to more than one and a half New Deals on “homeland security” since 9/11.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch —
While the major energy-producing countries in the Middle East are still firmly under the control of the Western-backed dictatorships, the Western-controlled dictatorial system is eroding. In fact, it’s been eroding for some time.
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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As he watches neighboring Syria “implode,” the king of Jordan worries that the country will fracture and become a hotbed of religious extremism.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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The first disclosed unmanned drone strike of 2013 killed top Taliban leader Mullah Nazir as he reportedly met with senior leaders of his group in South Waziristan early Thursday morning, security officials say.
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch —
Although the Obama administration has acceded to the imagery of knee-jerk support for whatever Israel does, behind the scenes its policies are beginning to look far less predictable. In fact, unlikely as it may seem, a showdown could be brewing between the two countries.
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 17, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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At the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, governments are trying to get their hands and handcuffs on the Internet; some scientists have posited that homosexuals inherit the trait from their opposite-sex parent; meanwhile, Italy’s disgraced Silvio Berlusconi prepares to run again. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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The 2-year-old conflict between the Syrian government and its opposition that has killed 40,000 civilians and threatens to destabilize the Middle East was escalated in recent days when forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fired Soviet-era Scud missiles at rebel fighters, American officials said Wednesday.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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By David Vine, TomDispatch —
How much does the United States spend each year occupying the planet with its bases and troops? Since the onset of “the Global War on Terror” in 2001, the total cost for our garrisoning policies, for our presence abroad, has probably reached $1.8 trillion to $2.1 trillion.
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch —
In election 2012’s “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times. Americans got virtually nothing substantial about Iran, while its (nonexistent) WMDs were hawked as the top U.S. national security issue. Now, with the campaign Sturm und Drang behind us but the threats still around, the question is: Can Obama 2.0 bridge the gap between current U.S. policy and Persian optics?
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Dear President Obama: Nothing you don’t know, but let me just say it: the world’s a weird place. I mean, do you ever think about how you ended up where you are?
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Nov 24, 2012
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Nov 24, 2012
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Nov 24, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Nov 23, 2012
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Nov 22, 2012
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