Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]
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Aerial footage of tar on Pensacola Beach
Aerial footage of tar on Pensacola Beach from Escambia County Sheriff’s Office helicopter.
Bhopal Victims Protest, Draw Contrast with US Treatment of BP
T.L. Caswell on how Union Carbide’s negligence in the Bhopal chemical leak near Agra in the 1980s was punished late and lightly, whereas BP was […]
Raining Oil in Louisiana
OK Rachel Maddow says it isn’t so. Raining oil in Louisiana:
McCain Bashes Obama’s Afghan Withdrawal Timetable
As British, Poles, Dutch Plan Exit
Controversy is swirling in Washington about whether the firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of US troops in Afghanistan has contributed to a weakening […]
Lessons of Petraeus’ Iraq for Petraeus’ Afghanistan
President Obama’s appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to succeed Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of US forces in Afghanistan signaled a continued commitment by the […]
McChrystal Drama is Sideshow; Can Obama define a realistic Goal?
The Daily Telegraph in the UK talked to a senior congressional figure late Tuesday or very early Wednesday ET, who said that Gen. Stanley McChrystal […]
Obama’s MacArthur Moment? McChrystal Disses Biden
Gen. Stanley McChrystal is apologizing for remarks he made in a Rolling Stone interview denigrating Vice President Joe Biden and US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl […]
Israel Makes Small Change to Gaza Blockade
Brands Lebanese Women’s Aid Mission ‘Hizbullah’
Edmund Sanders of the LAT puts the matter correctly when he says that Israel’s national security government (a subset of key cabinet ministers) took a […]
US Strike Kills Civilians in Khost,
Bombings Rock Helmand Capital
UN: Roadside Bombings Double
Things are not going well for the Obama administration in Afghanistan, and the only good news for the White House is that almost no one […]
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