Karadeniz, Turkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – If China wants to rival the United States, it must stop watching and start acting. Beijing wants […]
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Can Obama Get out of Iraq in 16 Months? Bombings Shake Baghdad
The daily bombings in Baghdad that appear to signal a resurgence of the guerrilla movement continued on Thursday, with three bombings in the capital killing […]
Monsters on Television
Paul Krugman, among my favorite political commentators, has spoken forthrightly of how during the past few years we have had “monsters” in office, naming Tom […]
Karzai: President Obama, Stop this Bombing
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on president-elect Barack Obama to reverse the increasing US and NATO dependence on air strikes to combat anti-government guerrillas. The […]
Pakistan on Obama: Hope and Trepidation
Pakistan’s president, Asaf Ali Zardari, and its prime minister Sayyid Raza Yusuf Gilani, gave a warm welcome to Barack Obama as US president. They recently […]
Celebrating in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arborites celebrated Obama’s victory into the wee hours on Nov. 4-5.
Natalie Portman on Wars
Padme Amidala makes a statement.
The Ordinariness of Revolution
Nabil Al-Tikriti writes in a guest op-ed for IC: All day they came. And came. On this overcast Tuesday wave after wave of “real Americans” […]
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Wouldn’t it be nice if Jack, Martin, Bobby, Cesar and Patsy could have been around to see it?
"Everybody with Obama" in Middle East; Afghanistan, Iraq Challenges to Confront new President
Mark MacKinnon writes that everybody in the Middle East is with Obama: ‘There’s yearning across the Middle East – at least outside of Israel and […]
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