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Tom Engelhardt : Oil
More than five years after the invasion of Iraq--just in case you were still waiting--the oil giants finally hit the front page.
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Bush's Islamist Enemies List
Mohamad Bazzi : Lebanon
By conflating Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah, the President displays his ignorance--and could be laying the groundwork for attacks by Israel on Hamas and Hezbollah.
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On Not Passing Israel's 'Lynch Test'
Akiva Eldar : Israel
On the sixtieth anniversary of Israel's founding, one of the country's leading journalists reflects on history, the occupation and the duties of conscience.
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Architect of War(s)
Michael T. Klare : Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney's Mideast tour suggests another catastrophic military adventure in the Persian Gulf is still in the cards.
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Shadowplays
Neve Gordon : Non-Fiction
In a pair of groundbreaking books, Israeli historian Hillel Cohen explores the thorny issue of Palestinian collaboration with Zionists.
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Is Iran Winning the Iraq War?
Robert Dreyfuss : Iraq War
Maybe. But Iraqis mistrust Iran as much as they do the United States.
2007
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Al Jazeera Goes Mainstream
Ned Lamont : Journalists & Journalism
The Arabic and English satellite broadcasts are giving voice to Arabs who challenge their governments, and ours.
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Jobs, Justice and Democracy
Afshin Molavi : US Foreign Policy
Mideast policy must include development.
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The New McCarthyism
Larry Cohler-Esses : Higher Education
A network of right-wing activists on college and high school campuses are targeting Muslims, Arabs and other Mideast experts, indifferent to the truth or decency of their charges.
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Turkey's Finest Hour?
The sick man of Europe gets a jolt of life, but will it last?
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Exporting Instability
William D. Hartung : US Foreign Policy
Mideast stability can't be promoted with arms any more than democracy can be imposed through the barrel of a gun.
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Persian Ghosts
Chris Toensing : Islam & Muslims
The complex historical tensions between Sunnis and Shiites are not enough to explain the current crisis in the Middle East.
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Exodus
Stephen Glain : Migration & Immigration
Iraq has prompted the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, and it's threatening to destabilize the entire region.
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The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Dahr Jamail : Migration & Immigration
The war in Iraq has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in history, and no one seems to be paying attention.
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The Saudi Paradox
Recent anti-American rhetoric from the desert kingdom should not be taken at face value.
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Sect Symbols
To understand why the playground of Beirut has again become a battleground, look beyond the myth-making biographies of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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Hurricane Carter
Henry Siegman : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Jimmy Carter has been vilified for saying things about the occupation in his new book that appear regularly in Israeli newspapers.
2006
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Debating Security
The alleged British terror plot contrasts with the fruits of Bush's "war on terror": civil war in Iraq, an empowered Iran and Arab hatred. Let us instead seek security through diplomacy.
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'Mushroom Cloud' Rice, The Icy Spinmeister, Tries Again
Calvin Trillin : US Foreign Policy
Condi takes her "birth pangs" mantra on the road.
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AIPAC's Hold
The Congressional reaction to Hezbollah's attack on Israel and Israel's bombing of Lebanon provide the latest example of the lobby's grip on US foreign policy.
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Israel's Dependency on the Drug of Militarism
The Jewish state's diehard supporters in the White House, Congress and the media seem unable to understand Israel can't bomb its way to security.
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The Triumph of Crackpot Realism
Alexander Cockburn : US Foreign Policy
The American government has lost its grasp on reality in Iraq and Lebanon. They seek out the bright, clear problems of war, leaving rubble and corpses in their wake.
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Anger in the Arab World
Rashid I. Khalidi : Israel
At best, war in Gaza and Lebanon will weaken pro-American regimes without destroying Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran or Syria. At worst, it will plunge the region into catastrophe.
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The Fractured Mideast
: Israel
Bush's Mideast strategy of inaction is a dangerous failure. He must act diplomatically to achieve a cease-fire, prisoner exchange and Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands.
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Labor Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy
Robert Scheer : US Foreign Policy
By saying that the Israel-Lebanon crisis simply represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East," Condoleezza Rice underscored the Bush Administration's blindness to the disastrous effects its foreign policy has wrought.
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A Thirst for West Bank Water
Fareed Taamallah : Environment
Israel's "convergence" plan will maintain control over most of Palestine's water supply--dimming hopes for peace and a viable Palestinian state.
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The Palestinian Patient
Gate of the Sun follows the odyssey of Palestinians driven to refugee camps in Lebanon by Israeli forces in 1948.
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Curing Fanaticism
Amos Oz reflects on the political and diplomatic implications of Hamas's recent victory and its impact on opportunities for peace.
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Pity the Region
Augustus Richard Norton : Non-Fiction
Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilization criticizes a self-righteous US foreign policy oblivious to the power of retributive justice in the Middle East.
2005
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The War on Al Jazeera
Jeremy Scahill : Alternative & Independent Media
A top-secret memo detailing George W. Bush's proposal to bomb Al Jazeera is not "outlandish," as the White House claims. The Bush Administration had been threatening, insulting and imprisoning Al Jazeera staffers and other unembedded journalists long before Bush reportedly floated the idea to Tony Blair.
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Rushdie's Receding Talent
It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.
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Gaza Illusions
Richard Falk : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Disengagement represents a dangerous step backward in the struggle to find a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians and leaves many core issues unresolved.
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The Big Chill
Laura Rozen : US Foreign Policy
Is the FBI's Franklin/AIPAC case about spying--or clamping down on leaks?
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Reflections on the Body Politic
Novelist David Grossman discusses Israel and the role of politics in his writing.
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Giving Chutzpah New Meaning
Alan Dershowitz is on the defensive over his research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Hall of Mirrors
Laura Rozen : US Foreign Policy
A report on the mysteries of the FBI's Larry Franklin/AIPAC investigation.
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Letter From Jordan
Since Abdullah II assumed the throne in 1999, Jordan has become increasingly authoritarian and corrupt.
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The Mideast Comes to Columbia
Scott Sherman : Higher Education
The current battle is the latest in a larger, ideologically driven conflict.
2004
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Why Marwan Did Not Run
Most Palestinians now seek unity and a reprieve from the exhaustion of war.
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Letter From Budrus
Palestinians are organizing a grassroots, nonviolent resistance to Israel's separation barrier.
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On Israel
Is there any sense in the independence of one people at the expense of the fundamental rights of the other?
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In Praise of Diasporism, or, Three Cheers for Irving Berlin
This is no time for petty feuds over doctrinal purity, but for organized resistance to the Occupation.
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Pursuing the Millennium
David Hirst : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
The Zionist-colonial enterprise has always had a built-in propensity to gravitate towards its most extreme expression.
2003
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Letter From Israel
The Israeli government has long preferred to sweep incidents of refusal under the rug.
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Sacred Rage
Baruch Kimmerling : Non-Fiction
Anyone who writes about terrorism is faced with the notorious problem of defining it.
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Egypt's Islamist Dilemma
Militant leaders now preach peace, but they may have won the ideological war.
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Freedom Summer
Despite threats of violence, volunteers from around the world have arrived in the occupied territories for Freedom Summer.
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Republic or Empire?
Joseph Wilson : America As Empire
Iraq is the linchpin for a broader assault on the region.
2002
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The War on Academic Freedom
Kristine McNeil : Internet & New Media
As with redbaiting in the 1950s, Campus Watch is exploiting the fears of the public to advance its own political agenda.
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Letter From an Israeli Jail
A refusenik explains why he'd rather do hard time than serve in the occupied territories.
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Palestine Activism Spammed
Welcome to the concerted cyber-campaign to intimidate pro-Palestine activists from organizing on the Internet.
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Operation Endless Deployment
William D. Hartung, Frida Berrigan & Michelle Ciarrocca : Wars Abroad
The war with Iraq is part of a larger plan for global military dominance.
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View From Beirut
The Saudi plan wasn't exactly an offer rejected--just an offer ignored.
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Egyptian Justice, US-Style
In Egypt, trying civilians in military courts is nothing new.
2001
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Saudis and Americans: Friends in Need
Is the Washington-Riyadh friendship in serious trouble? Don't bet on it.
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Israel: Into the Abyss
The Israeli government has chosen its course; it is now up to the public to resist.
This week: Can Barack Obama be a "People's President," or is his move to the center for good? Betsy Reed, Doug Henwood, Jo-Ann Mort, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Gary Younge debate. (13mb mp3)
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