Thursday 11 March 2010

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Pakistan and India Are Back At the Peace Table

Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries

Islamabad, Pakistan- India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is scheduled to visit Islamabad later this month as both India and Pakistan are back on track to resume their high level diplomatic talks. The discussions between the two so far are (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | Manzer Munir

International

Goodbye to ’Churchillism’: from Munich and Suez to the Iraq war

Gordon Brown’s role in the Iraq war will come under focus today when he gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. By Gerry Hassan. The Iraq war is the point where Tony Blair lost his political touch, and became ‘Bliar’ in the eyes of many (...)

5 Mar. 2010 | | openDemocracy

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War on terror: the point that means and ends interact

When a theme suddenly irrupts in the mediatic/political/geopolitics scene like terrorism since 911, and given my experience in the last month or before, I just reflected on the idea of the war on terror being used by more than one potitical power to (...)

11 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Bensred

International

Obama’s Lethal Afghan Cocktail: Conservative Scorn & Liberal Bile

As feared, President Obama is upping the ante in Afghanistan by sending 30,000 additional troops on a fool’s errand with some vague mutterings about an exit strategy from a conflict that was lost almost as soon as it was declared because boots, (...)

1 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Shaun Mullen

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

"Shepherd doesn’t care about danger close." If you play Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2 on Normal, you will finish it in eight hours. If you play in on one of the more advanced levels, you’ll probably have too much time to think about (...)

16 nov. 2009 | | Cobb

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Afghanistan & The Trick Within A Trap

I don’t oppose all wars. . . . What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. — BARACK OBAMA (October 2002) There is an unassailable logic to President Obama’s decision to further put off what to do about (...)

13 nov. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

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It is never too late to MEND

This won’t be a substantive post, but more a notice to myself to build one. A seriously under-reported story on the global guerrilla beat is that the Nigerian government has succeeded, at least for the moment, in either defeating the Niger Delta (...)

12 nov. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

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6 oct. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

International

Dispatches From The Wars : Iraq Lost. Iran Won. So Where’s That Leave U.S. ?

Long story short, things are looking downright sucky in the two wars that President Obama inherited. Beyond the firestorm over the discovery of a nuclear fuel-processing plant and the threat of sanctions against the slimy Tehran regime is a back story (...)

5 oct. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

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The Destruction of Cause & Effect

I’ve just learned that 52% of my Facebook friends are Democrats and 48% are Republicans, so I went to read some of their blather. One told me that there is an alarm clock that will wake you up to the smell of bacon. Another of these alarm clocks (...)

30 sep. 2009 | | Cobb

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Meanwhile, Back In The Real World...

SAME BUT DIFFERENT : 1965 AND 2009 It’s always interesting to come in off the road — in this case 10 days away from the unrelenting drumbeat of the news in the service of wrapping up my forthcoming book as well as catching some rays and music. (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

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Who died?

Erik Prince runs an outfit (Blackwater, aka Xe) that I wish didn’t exist. His style of politically connected war profiteering is a danger to democratic values and to military success. The evidence seems to show that the operating procedures of (...)

6 Aug. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

International

The Future of Iraq, Part IV

Getting an accurate reading of Iraqi public opinion is hard. It might be impossible. I’ve seen Iraqis cheer American soldiers, and I’ve seen some Iraqis hug American soldiers in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Baghdad. A few weeks ago, though, hundreds (...)

23 Jul. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

International

The Future of Iraq, Part III

On my last trip to Iraq, I asked a number of Americans and Iraqis what they think about the future in that country. Around half were optimistic and half were pessimistic. This is the third installment in a four-part series. Optimists were quoted at length (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

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Remembering McNamara’s Catharsis: A Mortal Man Cast Into A Giant’s Role

Is it revisionism or an old man who speaks with the wisdom of age and hindsight? — JEN ROSENBERG With the death yesterday of Robert S. McNamara, the JFK-LBJ era defense secretary and Vietnam War architect, my thoughts segue quickly to another (...)

7 Jul. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

People

Happy 80th Birthday, Anne Frank! We need you more than ever.

Anne Frank was born just 80 years ago in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929. A Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis with her family, Anne kept her sanity before her capture and subsequent death in a concentration camp by recording her thoughts in a diary. (...)

12 Jun. 2009 | 1 comment | Billie Greenwood

Business

Giant symbol crashes and overturns, killing billions of dollars

You thought the Hummer being put on the block was symbolism ? This is symbolism : the bloated, militaristic, fuel-guzzling cultural trope itself is being sold to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery. Yes ; an unheralded outfit from the deep west, (...)

4 jui. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

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Messrs Sarkozy and Obama, go to Graignes !

Our President is so eager to meet his U.S. counterpart, that he ‘s immediately offered him a meeting on the beaches of Omaha Beach, this high place of memory which we echoed some time ago. I am delighted of this prospect, as i will never forget (...)

12 May. 2009 | 4 comments | Momothemorice

International

Harman Scandal : All about War on Iran

Jeff Stein of CQ.com reported on Sunday evening that the National Security Agency had picked up a telephone conversation by Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) with a suspected spy for Israel. It is alleged that in the conversation, the spy urged Harman to (...)

21 avr. 2009 | 1 comment | Juan Cole

International

The Bush Legacy - Afghanistan & Iraq war

On Thursday evening, March 26, while everyone was getting ready for watching Duke Basketball game at Duke Campus, in the social science building there was a very interesting discussion on US National Security in the 21st century with the former national (...)

7 avr. 2009 | | Nasim Fekrat

International

A three-front war : Iraq, AfPak...Washington

The sixth anniversary of the launch of the Iraq war coincides with military and political pressures on the Barack Obama administration to intervene more deeply in Pakistan. By Paul Rogers. The Iraq war was launched six years ago, with an intensive aerial (...)

20 mar. 2009 | | openDemocracy

International

Afghan lies from discredited US intelligence?

Lurid headlines appeared in some papers yesterday regurgitating a story that was placed in the media by US intelligence agencies. The story claimed that an ex-prisoner of the the Guantanamo torture camp in Cuba is now a leading Taliban commander in (...)

16 Mar. 2009 | | Gazmac

International

Freeman and the Coming War on Iran

Bob Dreyfuss has a postmortem on the scuttling by the Israel lobbies of the Chas Freeman appointment to the chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council. Dreyfuss shows that well-known figures in the Israel lobbies openly led the charge against (...)

16 mar. 2009 | | Juan Cole

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But what do the poor do with their lives ?

The times change ; children don’t respect their parents, and everyone’s writing a book. However, the forces of interest don’t change, and one place you find them pure is the defence procurement economy. Consider this story. The first (...)

2 mar. 2009 | | Alex Harrowell

International

5 Troops Killed in Afghanistan ; US in Jalrez Valley

A US soldier from Wisconsin was announced killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday (he died on Tuesday). Three British soldiers were killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb in the southern Pushtun Helmand Province, and another died in hospital from wounds earlier (...)

26 fév. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

is the messiah?

Gaza Palestine Israel

6 Jan. 2009 | | micmac08USA

Politics

What to do With War Criminals

One issue that the incoming administration has on its plate is what to do with the various war criminals now kicking around as a result of the Bush-Cheney torture and detention policies. On the merits, I’d like to see forgiveness for implementers (...)

24 nov. 2008 | | Matthew Yglesias

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