Jon Stewart this week showed his usual stone cold courage in having on to his show Palestinian activist Moustafa Barghouti and Jewish-American peace worker Ann Baltzer for a frank discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. A hard line Likudnik audience member heckled them and ultimately had to be escorted from the studio. Here is an eye […]
Pakistan Press: Clinton ‘White Goddess’; US should Leave Afghanistan
The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases Urdu editorials on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s controversial visit to Pakistan Pakistan: Urdu Press Roundup Discusses Hillary Clinton’s Visit to CountryThe following is a roundup of excerpts from editorials and articles on the visit of the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton to Pakistan, with particular […]
Pakistan Press: Clinton ‘White Goddess’; US should Leave Afghanistan
The USG Open Source Center translates or paraphrases Urdu editorials on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s controversial visit to Pakistan Pakistan: Urdu Press Roundup Discusses Hillary Clinton’s Visit to CountryThe following is a roundup of excerpts from editorials and articles on the visit of the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton to Pakistan, with particular […]
Should US Troops in Iraq be held Hostage to the next Election?
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Iraqi parliament again on Thursday failed to pass an electoral law to govern the holding of the planned January 16 parliamentary elections. The Kurdish delegates refused to come into the parliament building, thereby denying the session a quorum. The Turkmen and Arab delegates had demanded that Kirkuk be treated […]
Should US Troops in Iraq be held Hostage to the next Election?
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Iraqi parliament again on Thursday failed to pass an electoral law to govern the holding of the planned January 16 parliamentary elections. The Kurdish delegates refused to come into the parliament building, thereby denying the session a quorum. The Turkmen and Arab delegates had demanded that Kirkuk be treated […]
Blast At Peshawar Bazaar Kills 105
The story of the gigantic car bombing of the area between Meena and Kochi bazaars in Peshawar, which killed at least 105 persons, is especially heartbreaking. Muslim extremists in Darra Adam Khel appear to have planned and carried out the attack, done by remote-controlled car bomb. They had threatened the markets with retribution if they […]
Corey: What Afghanistan (Should) Mean to Us
Scott Corey writes a guest op-ed for IC: The Afghanistan debate is mired in the very shortcomings that have kept us from doing well there up to now. We need a qualitative shift of policy, but we dither about metrics and troop levels. We ask ourselves if we should “get out” as if there is […]
UN Guest House Attacked in Kabul; 8 More US Troops Killed in Bombings; FSO Resigns in Protest; President’s Brother CIA Agent, Drug Lord
Afghanistan continues to generate bad news at an alarming rate. Gunmen stormed a UN guest house in Kabul, deploying small arms fire and killing 3 UN staff members along with 4 other persons. A Taliban spokesman said his group was behind the attack and that it was aimed at disrupting the Nov. 7 presidential runoff […]
Bittle & Johnson: Will America’s Short-Term Memory Loss Kill the Climate Bill?
Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson, Authors of Who Turned Out the Lights: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis, write in a guest op-ed for IC: Imagine if the Senate hearings about a climate change bill had been held a year ago. Think of the context: $4 per gallon gas and oil over $130 per […]
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