Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]
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Taliban Resurgence threatens Elections
Obama Obama in Newsweek: ‘ Our success in Afghanistan is going to be deeply dependent not just on getting more troops there, which we need, […]
Kurdistan Seeks to Annex Other Iraqi Provinces
Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that the Kurdistan Alliance has responded to the Iraqi parliament’s passage of a bill concerning provincial elections. (The bill was vetoed […]
Female Suicide Bomber Kills 8 in Diyala; Turks bomb Iraq again
A female suicide bomber killed 8 Iraqis in Diyala province on Thursday, including the head of a local Awakening Council. Turkey bombed 13 targets in […]
Obama ist ein Berliner
Obama addresses a crowd of 200,000 in Berlin. Some were shouting in English, “Yes we can!” Text transcript here.
CBS Edits McCain Whopper out of Broadcast
Keith Olbermann and Jedreport clear up the gaffe that John McCain made about the history of the surge and examine the Orwellian editing techniques of […]
A Social History of the Surge
I want to weigh in as a social historian of Iraq on the controversy over whether the “surge” “worked.” The NYT notes: ‘Mr. McCain bristled […]
Bhasin: John McCain and Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Choices: Different Bottles, Same Wine
Madhavi Bhasin writes in an IC Guest Editorial: The race to elect the successor to President George W. Bush is attracting more attention from across […]
Cole in Salon: Obama is Wrong on Afghanistan
My Salon column, , “Obama is saying the Wrong things about Afghanistan,” , is now available online. Excerpt: ‘ The governor of the North-West Frontier […]
Passage of Electoral Provision Likely will Delay Elections
It is not looking good for the holding of provincial elections in Iraq this year. First the high electoral commission warned that if enabling legislation […]
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