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Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Can’t Stop Baghdad Bombs

Reports: You Can’t Blame Obama for American Stubbornness

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

Reports: There’s a Solution in Afghanistan—but Not the Way We’re Headed

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Reports: ‘Colorful’ Leaders Could Learn From Boring Brown

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Reports: Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution

Reports: Blame the Midas Touch

Reports: The Battle Over the Burqa

Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain

Reports: A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

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

Reports: GM’s Fall and the Cars of My Youth

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

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

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s

Reports: Global Capitalism: The Suicide Version

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Reports: A War Fought in Ignorance

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Ear to the Ground: Obama Throws 17,000 Troops at Afghanistan Mess

Reports: Israel’s Lose-Lose Election

Reports: In Washington, Public Policy and Private Wealth Are Hopelessly Tangled

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: Obama Must Halt America’s Moral Decline

Reports: Who’s in Charge—Obama, the Pentagon or Israel?

Reports: The Drama of Reciprocal Self-Destruction

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Reports: Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

Reports: Bush’s Follies Will Destroy Obama If He Lets Them

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Reports: Some Blame Must Follow the Financial Collapse

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Russia’s Resentment of the West Began With a Broken Promise

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Reports: The ‘New Multilateralism’

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Reports: With ‘Allies’ Like NATO, Georgia Better Not Annoy Russia

Reports: The Cost of Saakashvili’s Folly

Reports: Who Is Responsible for U.S. Russia Policy?

Reports: Cold War Spin Only Compounds Georgian Crisis

Reports: NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War

Reports: India’s Role in the Afghan Drama

Reports: China’s Quest for Olympic Glory

Reports: Sarkozy’s List of Successes

Ear to the Ground: Obama Commits to Afghanistan Escalation

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Reports: Obama’s Disaster in the Making

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Reports: A Loss of Transatlantic Harmony

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Reports: Fiat Chief on the Global Finance Crisis

Reports: Israel’s Self-Destruction as a Jewish State

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