San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Within the span of 24 hours in early September, Russia deployed drones into Polish airspace, and […]
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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Iran Through the Looking Glass
Reverse the story, though, and it immediately becomes a malign, if unimaginable, fairy tale. Of course, no Iranian elite forces will ever operate along the U.S. border…
Can Obama Prevail against a Romney-Netanyahu Ticket? – Robertson
John Robertson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment CAN OBAMA PREVAIL AGAINST A ROMNEY-NETANYAHU TICKET? Paul Pillar and Leslie Gelb – both of […]
The Way Forward in the Middle East — Peled & Peled
Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled write in a guest column for Informed Comment The Way Forward in the Middle East Reversing a bi-partisan US […]
Béji: “We are all Tunisian Jews”
Hélé Béji, a prominent woman writer from an old notable family in Tunis, was outraged by an incident in early January when a small crowd […]
GOP Candidates Harm Israeli Security by Pushing for Impractical “Greater Israel”
The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their […]
Egyptian Crowds in Tahrir Insist the Revolution will Continue
Perhaps 100,000 Egyptians came out on Wednesday in Tahrir Square in Cairo to mark the anniversary of the first massive protest that led to the […]
SOTU and a Destabilized Middle East
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address treated the Middle East at several points, underlining the unusual importance of this region to the United […]
Graphic of World Military Spending (Iran’s too Small to Show up)
World military spending in 2010. Note that Iran’s is not a big enough proportion of world arms spending to show up on this graph, which […]
Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU
Graffiti from Mission Street, San Francisco in honor of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation kicked off the Tunisian Revolution, inspired the Tahrir Square demonstrations, and the […]
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