the more important issue is what benefit Israel, the war’s proponent and initiator, stands to gain
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The Justice Department is going to investigate the destruction of videotapes of the interrogation of prisoners in US custody that showed torture. Speaker of the […]
36 Dead in Baghdad Bombing; 23,000 Civilians Killed in 07;
After having celebrated New Year’s Eve in style for the first time since 2002, Baghdad awoke on the first of the year to bad news. […]
Pakistan Elections Postponed; PPP Threatens Street Protests; OSC: Al-Qaeda has not Claimed Bhutto Killing
Pakistan’s electoral commission announced Tuesday that the elections scheduled for January 8 will be postponed until February. The Pakistan People’s Party objected strenuously to the […]
How Fleeting is Empire
The Maps of War site has a review of Middle Eastern empires beginning about 1800 BC. I’d have added a couple of phases at the […]
Musharraf’s Watergate? Physicians Coerced by Military; Nawaz: Musharraf Must Go
It looks increasingly as though someone in the military government in Pakistan may have been somehow complicit in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. An attorney […]
Turkey and Indonesia Muslim Success Stories Economic Upturn in Egypt
Here are some trends that I hope continue and deepen in 2008. Turkey and Indonesia are making strides as secular democracies in Muslim-majority countries, with […]
Zogby: Slight Surge for Edwards, McCain; Giuliani Slips
New Zogby Poll (reprinted by permission) confirms Edwards surge in Iowa but disconfirms Romney lead or Huckabee decline. ‘UTICA, New York—The race for the Democratic […]
Guest Op-Ed: US Foreign Policy; the Principle of Non-Intervention
A seasoned observer writes: ‘ The complexity, interrelationships, results and consequences (intended and unintended) of US Iraq policy – one of the seven foreign interventions […]
Top 10 Challenges Facing the US in the Middle East, 2008
10. Helping broker a deal in Lebanon between the March 14 Movement and the Shiites so that a new president can be elected and a […]




