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September-December 2009 Links

September-December 2009 Links

Afghanistan-Pakistan-India

• $400 per gallon gas to drive debate over cost of war in Afghanistan


• 800 Afghan Polling Sites ‘Existed Only on Paper’


• 'I told the U.S. to talk to the Taliban. They jailed me'


• 'Most of them were corrupt and stoned on opium'


• 'There hasn't been two seconds of intelligent discussion about living standards in Afghanistan'


• ‘U.S. Taxpayers Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on a Fraudulent Election’


• Afghan election panel relaxed fraud rules to avoid runoff


• Afghan Election Rests on the Backs of Donkeys


• Afghan forces fight an enemy within


• Afghan Future Threatened by Ex-Warlords in Government


• Afghan Insurgents' Diverse Funding Sources Pose Challenges


• Afghan legislation nudges women’s rights forward


• Afghan Militias Battle Taliban With Aid of U.S.


• Afghan National Police penetrated by Taliban at 'every level'


• Afghan prisons 'a hotbed for extremists'


• Afghan women want West to back off 'rape law'


• Afghanistan: anatomy of an election disaster


• Afghanistan: Does this make Obama a chickenhawk?


• Afghanistan: Northern Distribution Network Grapples With Growing Security Threat


• Afghanistan: Time to leave


• Afghanistan Using Persuasion and Paid Jobs to Disarm Taliban


• Afghans Announce Spring Election


• Afghans fleeing Taliban are flooding Tajikistan


• Afghans Increasingly Turning to Taliban’s Shadow Government


• Afghans turn to Taleban justice as insurgents set up shadow government


• Afghanistan’s Oil Binge: 22 Gallons of Fuel Per Soldier Per Day


• Afghanistan's Sham Army


• Afghans Have Serious Doubts About U.S. Escalation


• Afghans question what democracy has done for them


• After Disputed Vote, Afghan Government Still Struggles for Air of Legitimacy


• All is not yet lost


• All those Afghans, give or take a few million


• Allied Strategy at Risk as Afghan Police Run Out of Recruits


• An Open Letter to Obama on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir


• Anthropologists at war


• Are nuclear weapons safe in Pakistan?


• Are Obama advisers downplaying Afghan dangers?


• Army Researchers Warn Against Tribal War in Afghanistan


• At Pentagon's Request, Washington Post Delayed Story on Afghanistan Report


• Billions in U.S. aid never reached Pakistan army


• Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by CIA


• Canadian diplomats ordered to hold back information on Afghan prison torture: sources


• Captured Pakistan Taliban commander dies in jail


• Challenger's pullout leaves Afghan government of dubious legitimacy


• CIA says it gets its money's worth from Pakistani spy agency


• Civilian Goals Largely Unmet in Afghanistan


• Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops in Afghanistan


• Corrupt, untrained, underpaid, illiterate: the forces waiting to take over in Afghanistan


• Cost of Afghan war now a state secret, Canada's Tories say


• Defying U.N., Afghans to keep fraud-marred polling centers


• Dostum: Afghanistan’s Embattled Warlord


• Early Snowfall Could Derail Afghan Runoff Election


• Election Monitors Say One Third of Karzai Votes Suspect


• Envoy says his firing will hurt U.N. mission in Afghanistan


• Flames from Afghanistan Ignite Pakistan


• Fraud surrounds women voters in Afghan election


• French Journalist stands by kickbacks report


• GAO: Saudi individuals, groups backing extremists


• Get Out Now: The case for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan


• Get Out of Afghanistan


• Getting lost in Afghanistan


• Getting Serious about Tackling Corruption: Afghan Attorney General to Indict Five Leading Politicians


• Growing Accounts of Fraud Cloud Afghan Election


• Guttenberg's Plans to Talk To Taliban: The Beginning Of The End Of Afghanistan


• Has Italy Been Paying Off the Taliban?


• Held by the Taliban: A New York Times Reporter’s Account: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5


• Helicopter Crashes Reveal Achilles’ Heel of Afghan War


• Hollow Victory


• How the Afghan Surge Was Sold


• How the U.S. Funds the Taliban


• In Afghanistan they held a recount, but not many cared


• In Afghanistan, experts question strategy of reconciliation for insurgents


• In Afghanistan, Taliban leaving al-Qaida behind


• In Kabul, a collective sigh of relief: With Karzai declared winner, many hope political tension is over


• In Russia, foreboding about America's war in Afghanistan


• India reels under explosive nuclear charge


• India's quest for smaller states


• Iran-Pakistan Tensions Rise in the Wake of Bombing


• Is Afghanistan Vietnam or Iraq? Arguing with Obama and Rubin


• Is Iran Supporting the Insurgency in Afghanistan?


• Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan, say officials


• Jane Mayer on Predator Drones and Pakistan


• Journalist accused of 'blasphemy' released from jail


• Journalist David Rohde's insights into what motivates the Taliban


• Karzai Agrees to Election Run-Off: Second Afghan Vote Poses Risks for the West


• Karzai Keeps Much of Former Cabinet Intact


• Karzai Looking Forward to Single Candidate Election After Abdullah Quits


• Karzai's Bodyguard


• Karzai’s share of Afghan vote is slashed by fraud officials


• Last Exit Before Quagmire


• Look at insurgent groups on Afghan-Pakistan border


• Many Sources Feed Taliban’s War Chest


• McChrystal’s Myth


• Meet the Afghan Army: Is It a Figment of Washington's Imagination?


• Militants deepen their foothold in Afghanistan's north


• More strange bedfellows on Afghanistan


• More Troops to Afghanistan, But What Will They Do?


• NATO faces same problems in Afghanistan as Russia did in 1985


• New battleground in northern Afghanistan?


• New Review System Will Give Afghan Prisoners More Rights


• Nobody wins in the Afghan runoff election


• Obama Demands an End-Game before Committing Troops to Afghanistan


• Obama Hears Conflicting Views on Afghanistan from Democrats


• Obama is haunted by Gorbachev's ghost


• Obama ready to pay Afghan fighters to ditch the Taliban


• Obama's exceedingly familiar justifications for escalation


• Obama's Indecent Interval


• Obama's Meaningless War


• Obama, tell me how this ends: Is Afghanistan just a new war of attrition?


• Pacifying Afghanistan: a dangerous dream


• Pakistan faces backlash on tribal reforms


• Pakistan Finds Local Allies Against Ferocious Foe


• Pakistan in crisis as 'creeping coup' unfolds


• Pakistan offensive uproots Taliban, but may not destroy it


• Pakistan’s Civilians Pay Heavy Price for Military’s Offensive


• Pakistan's conspiracy cottage industry


• Pakistan's Other Problem Area: Baluchistan


• Pakistani Army Has 'Understanding' With Anti-U.S. Militants


• Paying Off the Warlords: Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption


• Poll Shows Narrow Majority of Pakistanis Support Waziristan War


• Pressure piles on Karzai as Afghan waiting game drags on


• Public's Views of Afghanistan War Have Turned Sour


• Recruiting Afghan Soldiers a Struggle


• Remembering Afghanistan’s Golden Age


• Rushed training 'risks turning Afghan troops into cannon fodder'


• Same old mistakes in new Afghan war


• Secret Italian Bribes to Taliban—Tip of the Iceberg?


• Security Big Worry as Afghans Gear Up for Runoff


• Security of Pakistan nuclear weapons faces scrutiny


• Showdown between Afghan election watchdogs a new headache for Obama


• Spokesmen: Karzai Could Call 'Loya Jirga' with Taliban


• Stanley McChrystal’s Long War


• Survey of Pakistan’s Young Predicts ‘Disaster’ if Their Needs Aren’t Addressed


• Taliban gain foothold in once-stable Afghan north


• Taliban put their heads together


• Taliban spin doctors winning fresh ground in propaganda war with NATO


• Taliban Strength Nears Military Proportion


• Taliban Welcomed by Some Afghans as Stabilizing Influence


• Taliban's Afghan allies tell Barack Obama: 'Cut us a deal and we'll ditch al-Qaeda'


• Talking with the Taliban: Easier Said Than Done


• Tension grows between India and China as Asia slips into 'cold war'


• Terror's Tipping Point


• Terrorist group builds big base under Pakistani officials' noses


• That Afghan Runoff Election


• The Afghan '80's are back


• The Afghan 'Experiment'


• The bravest woman in Afghanistan


• The general is right, and Liam Fox is wrong: The Taliban are able to present themselves as battling for Afghan independence


• The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan


• The Impotent Dictator


• The mystery of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui


• The Real Reason for More Troops in Afghanistan


• The three fallacies that have driven the war in Afghanistan


• The U.S. army's colossal training task


• These Colors Run Red


• The growing problem in Afghanistan, according to Ron Paul (YouTube video)


• The Murderous Thugs We are Supporting in Afghanistan—and Why a Heroine Wants Us Out


• The Phoenix Program Was a Disaster in Vietnam and Would Be in Afghanistan—and the NYT Should Know That


• The Taliban's Toll: How American taxpayer dollars are being used to fund our Afghan enemies


• The U.S. on a new mission in Pakistan


• The universality of war propaganda


• Top Ten Things that Could Derail Obama's Afghanistan Plan


• Top U.S.-NATO Commander Says Insurgents Are Winning Communications Battle


• Translation problems threaten mission


• Tribal Leaders Say Karzai’s Team Forged 23,900 Votes


• UN Mission Split over Election Fraud, May Preserve Karzai#comments


• U.S. accepts Hamid Karzai as Afghan leader despite poll fraud claims


• U.S. Aid Monies May support Taliban Activities


• U.S. Confirms Secret Talks With Taliban


• U.S. General McChrystal Advises Escalation of Afghan War


• U.S. Hopes Iraq-Style Militias Can Bring Victory in Afghanistan


• U.S. intelligence: 'Time is running out' in Afghanistan


• U.S. Is Doing No Good in Afghanistan


• U.S. Needs to Keep It Simple in Afghanistan


• U.S. Pressing Karzai for Election Deal


• U.S. probes USAID funds in Afghanistan


• U.S. Quietly Slips Funds Into Military Bill to Pay Off Taliban


• U.S. surge will only prolong Afghan war


• U.S. to pay Taliban to switch sides


• U.S. Threatening to Attack Major Pakistani City of Quetta


• Under the Afghan Volcano, Part 1: Welcome to Pashtunistan


• Victory (for a crooked, corrupt, and discredited government)


• Vietnam-lite is unveiled


• Water projects' past failures are hurting Afghan farmers


• Western export of the ballot box elixir is pure hubris


• What the Russians learned in Afghanistan about assumptions


• Where Pakistan's militants go to ground


• Why are we still in Afghanistan?


• Why Pakistan may be more willing to help US target Taliban than it appears


• Why NATO will lose in Afghanistan


• Will Afghan Runoff Be Less Crooked than Round One?


• Win, Hold, and Lose


• With friends like the U.S., Pakistan doesn't need enemies


• Women of Influence: Malalai Joya


• Would Taliban fighters switch sides?

Africa

• Algeria: Cry the benighted country


• Darfur: A deadly new chapter


• Deadly faultline threatens to reignite civil war in Sudan


• Does raid in Somalia to take out a much-wanted al-Qaida operative show new side of AFRICOM?


• Fear and secrecy cloak Eritrea, Africa's hermit nation


• French establishment players convicted over arms-to-Angola scandal


• How Israel helped Amin to take power in Uganda


• In Somalia, U.S. weapons end up in al-Qaeda hands


• Independence an uncertain draw for Khartoum southerners


• Muammar Qaddafi: Mad Like a Fox


• Somali-American Terror Recruits Seen Posing Threat to U.S.


• Somali-American 'Terrorists' Victims of Unfortunate Labeling


• Somali training camps fuel threat of attacks on U.S.


• Stopping Piracy and Terrorism in Somalia


• U.S. Troops Attack Somalia


• U.S. Thinks They Probably Killed Kenyan in Somalia Raid

Al-Qaida

• Al-Qaida declines and Taliban rise in Afghanistan


• Al-Qaida has changed its face and operates from a different base


• Al-Qaida showing smaller presence in Afghanistan


• Did Iran Help al-Qaida Escape from Afghanistan?


• Everyone seems to be agreeing with Bin Laden these days


• Former CIA Agent's Hunt for bin Laden in Pakistani Badlands


• Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years—and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue the war on terror?


• Questions about Al Qaeda's next move


• Report: Islamic terror rising as al-Qaida fades


• The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity


• The Nevada gambler, al-Qaida, the CIA, and the mother of all cons


• Timeline: The search for Osama bin Laden


• Upper Crust Is Often Drawn to Terrorism

American-Israeli Relations

• 9/11: Our Truth, and Theirs


• AIPAC Celebrates 47th Birthday in Court


• American Jews Rethink Israel


• Maryland scientist Nozette is accused of spying for Israel


• Steve Rosen Accuses AIPAC of Espionage


• The Dark Side of the 'Special Relationship'


• The New Israel Lobby


• U.S. 'Silent on Israeli Nuclear Arms'

Arabian Peninsula

• Cause and effect in the 'terror war'


• Crises multiply in divided Yemen


• In Yemen, War Centers on Authority, Not Terrain


• Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon


• Interview with Gregory Johnsen on the situation in Yemen


• Saudi Arabia goes to war


• Saudi strike in Yemen sends 'strong message'


• Still Trying to Monopolize the Arabian Peninsula


• The Huthi Rebellion in Yemen


• The Lap Bomber Mystery


• U.S. Attacking Yemen After All


• U.S. May Be Sucked Into Yemeni Civil War


• U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion


• Yemen Next, with Its Multiple Crises


• Yemen teeters on brink of failure

Balkans

• Commander: EU Troops Stay in Bosnia for Political Reasons


• In Balkans, a Daunting Money Pit for the EU

Egypt

• Egyptians conflicted over preserving Jewish past


• Egypt's opposition fights 'dynastic rule'


• Wave of Labor Unrest Grips Egypt at Crucial Juncture

Iran

• A Russian policy shift on Iran?


• As Required, Iran Informs IAEA About New Enrichment Site


• Beating the War Drums on Iran


• Book on Marc Rich Details Oil Deals With Iran and Others


• British nuclear expert's 17th floor UN death plunge 'was not suicide'


• Christians United for War


• CIA head Panetta: We knew of Iran's Qom facility in 2006


• Congress Begins Pressing Iran Sanctions Legislation


• Diplomats: Iran’s Qom Faciltiy Construction Began in 2002


• Five Good Reasons to Avoid a War with Iran


• Fool Me Twice


• Has Poverty Increased in Iran Under Ahmadinejad?


• Heated Exchange Marks First Iran-Israel Talks in 30 Years


• How Israel's war with Iran will be fought


• How to Press the Advantage With Iran


• IAEA is 'not panicking' about Iran


• Imposing idiot sanctions on Iran is a direct route to war


• In Iran, nuclear issue is also a medical one
  
• Intelligence Agencies Say No New Work on Development of Nukes in Iran


• Iran: No Sanctions!


• Iran agrees to nuclear fuel swap, with caveats


• Iran Deal on Brink of Collapse as West Condemns Compromise


• Iran Debate Pretty Much Over


• Iran Denies Claims It Rejected Nuclear Deal


• Iran Proposes Alternative Nuclear Deal


• Iran Rejects Nuclear Deal, Suggests Direct Swap Compromise


• Iran Seeks Deal for Reactor


• Iran Standoff: Is a Nuclear-Free Middle East Possible?


• Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design, says secret report


• Iran Willing to Perform Nuclear Exchange in Turkey


• Iran's Geneva Offer on Nukes: Progress for Both Sides


• Iran’s Politics Stand in the Way of a Nuclear Deal


• Iran's Two Clocks


• Iran: IAEA may inspect new nuclear site


• Iran: More accomplished in one day of negotiations than in 8 years of threats


• Iranian site prompts U.S. to rethink 2007 National Intelligence Estimate


• Iranians Favor Diplomatic Relations With U.S. But Have Little Trust in Obama


• Is a new Cold War brewing with Iran?


• Is the media exaggerating the Iranian nuke threat?


• Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran?


• It was Uncle Sam who first gave Iran nuclear equipment


• Keeping Iran honest


• Lack of Evidence Over Iran 'Nukes' Alarms U.S.


• Let’s Think Rationally About Iran


• Mixed Signals from Iran on Nuclear Deal


• Mojahedin-e Khalq Accuse Iran of Working on Nuclear Detonators at Two Sites


• New enrichment site heightens Iran concerns


• New Iran sanctions could strengthen Revolutionary Guard


• Nuclear Debate Brews: Is Iran Designing Warheads?


• Obama times calling out Iran for impact


• Quick accord sought on Iran’s uranium export


• Report: Israel Eyes Ground Strikes in Iran Next Year


• Rhetoric against Iran must be cooled for sake of the Middle East


• Rumours of Western support for Iranian militia groups have broad backing


• Russia and China take hard line with Iran over uranium enrichment


• Same Song, Different Verse


• Secret file reveals how UK ditched Shah of Iran


• Sources: U.S. was aware of 'new' Iranian nuke site for years


• Tension Simmers in Iran


• The Israel Lobby, the Neocons, and the Iranian-American Community


• Those Tricky Iranians Are Now Threatening to Cooperate


• Top Things You Think You Know About Iran that Are Not True


• U.S. cuts funding to Iran opposition


• U.S. Senate Poised to for Sanctions as Iran Rejects 'Deadline' Yet Again


• U.S. Under Pressure to Revise National Intelligence Estimate on Iran


• White House unhappy with Iranian nuke proposal


• Who are Iran's Jundullah militants?


• Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail


• Women and the Presidential Elections: Iran's New Political Culture


• Would 'Regime Change' Really Help Vis-à-Vis Iran?

Iraq

• 1960 Christians killed in Iraq since 2003


• 'Good Morning Baghdad': Nightclubs, Corruption and Iraq's New Normalcy


• 'The devil's pipe ruins the soul of prayer'


• Adversities Await Iraqis Who Return Home


• After Years of Secrecy, a Glimpse Into the Numbers of Civilians Dead in Iraq


• All quiet on Iraq's western front


• Amid the carols and decorations, Iraq Christians fear extinction


• Big U.S. Bases Are Part of Iraq, but a World Apart


• Black Gold: Why Oil Majors Are Coming Back to Iraq


• Bush shoe protestor says worldwide fame has still left him a poor man


• Can Iraq escape the resource curse?


• Carnage and corruption in Iraq


• Christian Soldiers


• Despite Mounting Pressure, Grim Prospects for Election Law


• Don’t Let Iraqi Politics Affect U.S. Withdrawal


• Fallujah's babies and birth defects: The difficulties of pinning the blame


• Faster troop withdrawal may save $1 trillion


• Gossiping taxi driver source of Iraq 45-minute WMD claim


• Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah


• In Iraq, U.S. troops learn to cope with rejection


• In the Iraq war, Christians pushed to the brink


• Iraq election law delays decision on flash points


• Iraq Election Law Fails Again; Officials Term January Vote Impossible


• Iraq is safer, but by no means safe


• Iraq’s Election Law Sidesteps Kirkuk Question


• Iraq’s Northern Minorities Seen Under Critical Threat


• Iraqi Christians Seek Return and Sense Extinction


• Iraqi Parliament Finally Approves Election Law


• Iraqi priest says Christians must 'not be afraid'


• Iraqi shoe thrower: I was water-boarded in prison


• Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush released from prison


• Kirkuk, Iraq's simmering melting pot


• More Iraqis trying to move beyond sectarian divide


• Newspaper punished for criticizing Iraqi leader


• On How All Hell Hasn't Broken Out in Iraq and the U.S. Military Doesn't Need to Stay There; Or, Damn Lies and Statistics


• Poor conditions in Iraq drive returned refugees back to Syria


• Saddam options 'discussed a year before Iraq war'


• Shoe-throwing reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi to leave jail a celebrity


• Sunnis present a new face in Iraq


• Today's Iraq: The Police State That America Built


• Twist in Iraq's democracy: anti-American party pushes electoral reform


• U.K. Iraq Inquiry: Britain 'knew Saddam Hussein had destroyed WMD'


• U.S. discussed Iraq regime change a month after Bush took office, senior British officials say


• U.S. Still Not Planning Major Iraq Troop Cuts Until Next Year


• Violence is a way of life in Iraq—and this is the justice it creates


• What Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at Bush had to say

Islam

• A Piece of White Silk


• As Indonesia debates Islam's role, U.S. stays out


• Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again


• Six Cane Strokes for Drinking Beer: Shari'ah Law Verdict Divides Malaysia


• The Hate Preacher Who Lost His Venom: Infamous Islamist Imam Forswears Terrorism

Israel-Palestine

• 'Might not right for Israel'


• A 'New Era' in the Middle East? Uh-oh


• Abbas’s move reflects deep Palestinian despair


• Abbas' West Bank is flourishing but Hamas is not worried


• Blockaded Gazans Look to Smuggle In Christmas


• Breaking Palestine's peaceful protest


• Cast Lead II: What Was the Real Aim of the Gaza War?


• Christianity in Palestine: Misrepresentation and Dispossession


• CIA working with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank


• Ethiopian students affair shows prevalent racism in Israel


• Fragmenting Palestinian land: A young student deported from the West Bank to Gaza is just the latest victim of Israeli efforts to sever ties between the territories


• Gaza fishermen say Israel trawling for informants


• Gaza still on a knife-edge, one year on from the war


• Gaza water unfit for human consumption, Palestinians say


• Goldstone and Hassan


• Hamas Fights Over Gaza’s Islamist Identity


• Hamas is not al-Qaida


• Hamas Objects to Possible Lessons About Holocaust in U.N.-Run Schools in Gaza


• Hamas's Resilience, Obstinacy Complicate Mideast Peace Bid


• Harsh Gaza report yields unintended consequences


• Israel resembles a failed state


• Israel stripped thousands of Jerusalem Arabs of residency in 2008


• Israeli settlements could cause one-state solution


• Israeli vigilantes target young Arab-Jewish couples


• Knocking Our Heads Against a Wall in Palestine


• Last Straw for the Palestinian 'Authority'?


• Leadership 'let down' Palestinians


• Netanyahu Scores Victory as U.S. Abandons All Settlement Demands


• No way home: The tragedy of the Palestinian diaspora


• Obama administration missteps hamper Mideast efforts


• Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes secret


• Obama Fails in the Middle East


• Obama's Fractured Israel-Palestine policy


• Palestinian Authority’s Future Is in Question


• Palestinian farmers: Not much of an olive branch


• Palestinians and Israelis Follow Thoreau, but Is Anyone Watching?


• Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon


• Poll: Most Israelis Support Peace Talks With Hamas


• Real reform in Israel is a distant prospect


• Refugees and Zionist Propaganda


• Six Questions for Desmond Travers on the Goldstone Report


• The Goldstone Gaza report and the battle for legitimacy


• The Obama administration is selling the peace process, but the press is not buying it


• The Ongoing Repression of Palestinian Protesters


• The Settlement Freeze That Isn't


• Tough Military Stance Stirs Little Debate in Israel


• U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society


• Was Israel's Gaza offensive worth it?


• What really happened between Barak and Arafat at Camp David?

Lebanon-Syria

• Campus Elections in Lebanon Mirror Society’s Politics


• Hezbollah gears up for new war with Israel


• IAEA deepens Syria nuclear probe over uranium traces


• Red Cross Lebanon Assessment After End of 2006 War


• Report: Syrian official helped Mossad kill Mughniyeh


• Syria belatedly seeks redress


• The Story of 'Operation Orchard': How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al-Kibar Nuclear Reactor

Media

• CIA's black sites, illuminated


• The Media As Enablers of Government Lies by James Bovard


• The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines


• U.S. officials cancel contract to profile reporters

Russia and Its Neighbours

• 'Gulag' book, once banned, is now required reading


• Activist 'beaten' after BBC story about Uzbekistan


• After Chechnya, many fear new Caucasus war looming


• Azerbaijan: Islam in a Post-Soviet Republic


• Black Sea Wars


• Chechnya leaders and rebels to meet for peace talks


• Chechnya's separatist rebellion grows into regional Islamist insurgency


• Communist-era files still haunt the old East Bloc


• Europe stoops to conquer the Uzbeks


• Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan on Manufacturing Terror: Oil, Lily Pad Bases and Torture


• Freed reporters say they were dragged into North Korea


• In West Ukraine, 2004’s Euphoria Turns to Despair


• Ingushetia's cycle of violence


• Ingushetia's government dismissed after series of terrorist attacks


• Ingushetia: A second Chechnya?


• Poland to Accept U.S. Offer on Missile Shield


• Polish Missile Joke Revisited


• Power for U.S. from Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons


• Recycling Atomic Waste: Nuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Parking Lots


• Russia scraps missile placement after Barack Obama dismantles shield


• Russia train bombing: sign of new terror tactics?


• Russia's Aspirations in the Middle East Are Unrealized


• Russia's Troubled Caucasus, Five Years After Beslan


• Russian priest and Muslim critic, Daniil Sysoyev, assassinated in church


• Suspect in Poisoning of Former KGB Officer Is Not Charged


• The Mystery of Chernobyl


• The savagery of war: A soldier looks back at Chechnya


• Tortured state of the Russian Army


• Trouble in the north Caucasus


• Ukraine front-runner questions democratic reforms


• Washington’s overplayed hand on Russia


• Why Russians Ignore Ballot Fraud

Turkey

• In Turkey, Trial Casts Wide Net of Mistrust


• Nostalgia for the Ottomans: Disillusioned with Europe, Turkey Looks East


• Reforms for Kurds spark accusations of 'treason'


• Rise of the Turkish crescent


• Triumph of the Turks


• Turkey Plans to Ease Restrictions on Kurds and Help End Decades of Conflict


• Turkey's Armenians hope for a new era


• Turkey's Kurd initiative goes up in smoke


• Turkish military in spotlight as coup plot probe deepens

U.S. Government

• 22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case


• 'In China, At Least I Would Have a Trial'


• A Few Good Kids?


• A Golden Opportunity to Declaw Patriot Act


• A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack


• At U.S. airports, TSA officers covertly monitor travelers' behaviour


• Bagram, Habeas, and the Rule of Law


• Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus


• Battle Looms Over the Patriot Act


• Bush torture 'architect' sits on court that will rule on another torture 'architect'


• Calling Hannah Arendt


• Cheney Failed to Answer 72 FBI Questions on the Plame Case


• CIA Secret Prison Found


• CIA Torturers Running Scared


• Congressional Panel Defies Obama on PATRIOT Act Provision


• Democrats Take a Pass on Civil-Liberties Reform


• Dick Cheney 'Put Airline Bomb Plot Case in Jeopardy With Arrest Order of Rashid Rauf'


• Documents Suggest DOD Failed to Probe Alleged War Crimes


• Entangled Giant


• Ex-FBI Translator Claims Spying at U.S. Department of Defense


• FBI Supervisor Calls for Prosecutor in Edmonds Case


• FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'


• FBI Whistleblower Names Names


• For Airline Passengers, Pat-Downs, Searches and Restroom Monitors


• Former FBI Agent Confirms: Bush Official at State Department Was Target of 'Decade-Long' Espionage Probe


• Gigantic Scandal!: The Sibel Edmonds Story


• Gitmo men celebrate freedom


• Have Any Patriot Act Horror Stories Come True?


• House of Representatives Passes Bill Blocking Gitmo Transfers and Detainee Photo Releases


• How much government control of Web in cybercrisis?


• Lithuanian Investigation Confirms ABC News Report on Secret CIA Prison


• New Jersey Man Files Suit Against FBI Over Time Held in East Africa


• No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings


• NSA Supercenters to Store Americans' Private Data Permanently


• Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit


• Obama Brings Guantanamo to Bagram


• Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents


• Obama Drops Plan For Guantanamo 'Indefinite Detention' Law


• Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush-Cheney on Patriot Act


• Obama Seeks PATRIOT Act Extensions


• Obama Undeserving of Civil Liberties Accolades


• Obama’s About-Face Leads to Supreme Court


• Obama's Dirty War


• Obama's Guantanamo and counterterrorism policies similar to Bush's?


• Obama's latest use of 'secrecy' to shield presidential lawbreaking


• Obama: Giving Bagram Detainees Access to U.S. Courts a Threat to National Security


• On Security, Obama’s 'Coalition of the Willing' Takes Shape


• Operation Northwoods and the 9/11 Truthers


• Pentagon officials won’t confirm Bush propaganda program ended


• Pentagon used psychological operation on U.S. public, documents show


• Presidential Power Grows: Will You Love Every Future President?


• Report: CIA interrogations informed by bad science


• Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe


• Senators Vote to Renew Patriot Act Spy Powers


• Senators’ Patriot Act ‘fix’ would eliminate telecom immunity


• Shades of Abu Ghraib: The French Counterinsurgency in Algeria


• Sibel Edmonds's Big Day


• Sonic Weapons Used in Iraq Positioned at Congressional Townhall Meetings in San Diego County


• Study: Fewer terrorism suspects going to trial


• The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies


• The Case of the Missing Torture Documents


• The Cheney Offense: The former vice president isn't a challenge to Obama--he is helpful cover for how little this administration has changed on national security


• The Forgotten Guantanamo: Prisoner Abuse Continues at Bagram Prison in Afghanistan


• The Hayden Letter


• The New York Times's view of 'journalistic objectivity'


• The Real Deal?


• The Right to a Guilty Verdict


• This is Shameful


• Tough questions for doctors who aided CIA torture


• Troop use After Alabama Shootings Illegal


• U.S. antiterrorism laws causing delays for refugees


• U.S. Had ‘Early Signals’ of Lap Bomber Plot


• U.S. Moves to Seize Four Mosques, Claiming Secret Iranian Control


• U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets


• U.S. spies invest in internet monitoring technology


• U.S. trained butchers of East Timor


• Victory on preventive detention law: in context


• Whatever Happened to the CIA's Black Sites?


• White House readies phone-tap case concession


• Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?


• Who's in Big Brother's Database?


• Young Afghan struggles to adapt after Guantanamo

War and Intervention

• America's new crusader castles


• Army Again Turns to Depleted Uranium for New Weaponry


• Barack Obama, Interventionist and Ultimate Jihadi


• Bring Back the Bad Guys


• Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009


• Cold War Without End


• Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows


• Door Opens to Health Claims by U.S. Troops Tied to Agent Orange


• Global Warfare USA: The World Is the Pentagon's Oyster


• Japanese emperor 'did not want world war'


• Military Web Policy 2.0


• Obama Fails to Reset Foreign Policy


• One man's terrorist...


• Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn't gone anywhere


• Outgoing IAEA chief leaves complex legacy


• Pentagon's Gates Plays the Ugly American


• Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini.


• Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants


• Second World War blunder that doomed 50,000 British PoWs


• The Bogey of Isolationism


• The Demise of the Dollar


• The Fifty-Year War


• The perils of political correctness--left and right


• The Real Intelligence Failure


• The Tragedy of Pius XII


• Time to End the Neocon Con Game


• U.S.'s 'arc of instability' just gets bigger


• Understanding Dictatorships: From Iran to Cuba, the question of legitimacy is paramount


• Walls around the world


• We're Going To Attack You If You Try To Get The Power To Stop Us From Attacking You


• What Motivates the Suicide Bombers?

Uncategorized

• 'Fear detector' being developed that will be able to sniff out terrorists


• Academic Dishonesty


• CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces


• Eastern Orthodoxy and Westerners


• Fix your terrible, insecure passwords in five minutes


• How cooking helped us to evolve


• How to avoid a hangover this Christmas: You don't need to give up drink, just pick the right tipple


• My friend the president


• Practical Internet Privacy


• Practical Internet Privacy: Postscript


• Showers can make you ill: How clean is your shower head?


• The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English


• The Pope, HIV and Africa


• The saintly spirit of Father Christmas


• The ugly secret why tuition costs a fortune


• U.S. Congress divided over whether they will be receiving the swine flu vaccine


• What Should You Study in College?


• Why Antidepressants Don't Work


• Why doing nothing is good for you

June-August 2009 Links

June-August 2009 Links

Afghanistan-Pakistan

• A refugee camp for Pakistani Christians


• A search for motive in attack on Christians in Pakistan


• Afghan Election 2009: Freedom, Fraud, and Fornication


• Afghan Election Poses New Tests for U.S.


• Afghan Husbands Win Right to Starve Wives


• Afghan media refuse to censor election reporting


• Afghan women and girls are still fighting


• Afghanistan and the new great game


• Afghanistan Apocalypse


• Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights


• Afghanistan's Democratic Debacle


• Afghans confuse democracy with fornication


• Afghans Seek Presidency for Ideals and Gain


• Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!


• Ascetic Afghan presidential candidate wins support


• Attack on Christians a further crisis for Pakistan


• Ballots and Bullets for Afghanistan


• Can Talking To The Taliban Help?


• Command Decision


• Democracy in Afghanistan is wishful thinking


• Dostum's return to Afghanistan: a nod to 'warlord politics'


• Fake Elections Won't Bring Peace to Afghanistan


• Fighting Taliban, if U.S. patrols can find them


• Fixing Afghanistan


• How to Bring Peace to Afghanistan


• In Afghanistan, Violence and Cynicism Keep Voter Turnout Low


• In Helmand, Afghans Feel Caught Between U.S. and Taliban


• In Taliban heartland, coalition's made little headway after eight years


• In the fog, remember: victory is impossible in Afghanistan


• Intimidation and Fraud Observed in Afghan Election


• Is Karzai trying to Steal the Afghanistan Election, taking a Leaf from Ahmadinejad's Book?


• Is Obama 'Acting Stupidly' in Afghanistan?


• Is Pakistan's Taliban movement on the way out?


• Just in Time for Election: Afghanistan Introduces Sweeping New Censorship


• Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme


• Karzai in His Labyrinth


• Karzai Wins Afghan Warlords' Support as Others Fear the Cost


• Karzai's secret U-turn on Afghan rape law


• Karzai’s supporters 'buy' votes for Afghanistan election


• Many Women Stayed Away From the Polls In Afghanistan


• Marines Fight Taliban With Little Aid from Afghans


• Marines try a woman’s touch to reach Afghan hearts


• Marines' Mission Doomed to Failure


• Military says linguists can't keep up in Afghanistan


• Military Translators Risk Low Pay and Death


• Mission Essential, Translators Expendable


• Musharraf's emergency was 'unlawful'


• Now Pakistan must strike while the iron is hot


• Obama must call off this folly before Afghanistan becomes his Vietnam


• Obama's bulldozer risks turning the Taliban into Pakistan's Khmer Rouge


• Observers Point to Widespread Fraud in Afghan Vote


• One Step Forward, One Step Back


• Organized Crime in Pakistan Helps Fund Taliban


• Pakistan Lifts Ban on Political Parties in Tribal Areas


• Pakistan Military Not Capitalizing on Taliban Disarray


• Pakistan public opinion turning against Taliban


• Pakistan religious schools get scrutiny


• Pakistan turns on its jihadi assets


• Pashtun ethnic agenda at heart of Afghan war


• Poll finds Pakistanis unhappy with U.S. and militants


• Questions on the Eve of the Afghan Election


• Secret deal to help Karzai win reelection


• Sectarian violence hits Pakistani town


• Security Risks and Segregation Likely to Undermine Afghan Election’s Legitimacy


• Support network in Pakistan accused of helping Taliban, others sneak across Afghan border to attack U.S.


• Taliban avert attacks with U.S. equipment


• Taliban drug proceeds lower than thought, U.S. report says


• Taliban slick propaganda confronts NATO forces and government


• Taliban's growth in Afghanistan's north threatens to expand war


• Tensions Rise as Thousands of Fraud Allegations Hit Afghan Vote


• The Afghan pipe dream


• The aid Afghanistan really needs


• The big lie of Afghanistan


• The Irresistible Illusion


• The Lesson from Pakistan: Less Is More


• The Madrasa Myth


• The Taliban will 'never be defeated'


• The truth behind the insurgency


• The Unsinkable Hamid Karzai


• The War We Can't Win


• These attempts to win hearts and minds are futile


• Today's Afghan election is a moment of truth for zealous liberal aggressors


• U.S. and Britain Again Target Afghan Poppies


• U.S. envoy: Most Taliban funds come from overseas


• U.S. gives up on eradicating Afghanistan's opium


• U.S. Helicopter Opens Fire on Afghan Medical Clinic


• U.S. Said to Have Averted Inquiry into '01 Afghan Killings


• U.S. Sees Limited Iranian Aid To Afghan Insurgency


• U.S. trains reluctant Afghan police to fight Taliban


• Ultimate Dodge: America Plans to Reduce Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan… And???


• Vote fraud allegations mount in Afghanistan


• Was the Afghan election rigged, and where's the proof?


• Waziristan is still a hangover from the colonial headache


• What’s happening in the Afghan massacre probe?


• Where the Mullahs Are the Upper Crust


• Why Afghans Have No Hope in This Week's Vote


• Why Are We in Afghanistan?


• Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan?


• Why South Waziristan has long posed challenge to Pakistan's government


• Why the Taliban won't take over Pakistan


• Why these deaths hit home as hard as the Somme


• Winning the Good War


• Without opium, Afghan village economy spirals


• Women voter turnout sinks in Afghanistan

Africa

• In a Changing Somalia, Islamist Forces See Support Wane


• International Court Under Unusual Fire


• Jihadists find global Somali communities ripe for recruiting


• Pirates, Inc.: Inside the booming Somali business


• Western Attitudes, Toxins Stunting African Growth

Al-Qaida

• A Saad Story


• Al-Qaida Leader Hopes to Use Pakistani Nukes Against U.S.


• Al-Qaida plays key role on both sides of Pakistan-Afghan border


• Bin Laden worked for U.S. till 9/11


• Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists


• New direction in anti-terrorism fight may stem from case of American al-Qaida recruit


• No sign of voters on election day in Afghanistan despite official claims


• The Other Sons of Iraq


• Why America is losing the intelligence war


• Yemen's Problems Go Far Beyond Narrow U.S. Focus on al-Qaida

American-Israeli Relations

• AIPAC Wall Beginning to Crack


• Anti-Americanism in Israel


• DOJ: AIPAC case witness was asked to 'fake… suicide'


• Same As It Ever Was?


• Sentence reduced for Pentagon analyst who leaked to AIPAC officials

Balkans

• Bosnia needs to sort itself out without our help


• Envoy rules by decree to scrap law in Bosnia


• Fourteen Years After War's End, Ethnic Divisions Once Again Gripping Bosnia


• Risky business in the Balkans

Iran

• 'Reformer' is relative for Iranian election challenger


• A classic revolutionary dilemma


• A Divided Country United by the Spirit of Democracy


• A Shi'a Schism On Clerical Rule


• A shift in Iran would not change nuclear policy


• A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets


• A Thought Experiment: If the Soviet Union Had Verbally Backed the U.S. Civil Rights Movement


• Ahmadinejad Wins Surprise Iran Landslide Victory


• Apocalypse Not


• Battle for the Islamic republic


• Between Tel Aviv and Tehran


• Can Iran's Minorities Help Oust Ahmadinejad?


• Can Iran's protesters keep momentum?


• Claims of student massacre in Tehran spread


• Clashes Continue in Iran as Guardian Council Admits to Irregularities


• Class vs. Culture Wars in Iranian Elections: Rejecting Charges of a North Tehran Fallacy


• Clerics’ Call for Ouster Challenges Iran's Supreme Leader


• Clinton: U.S. Supported Iran Protesters 'Behind the Scenes'


• Did Ahmadinejad Win Fair and Square--and Cheat, Too?


• Did an Australian sell nukes to Iran?


• Difficult moment for Iran--and the world


• Distorting U.S. Intel On Iran: Obama Follows Bush’s Lead, Again


• Divine assessment vs. people power


• Don't Forget Mousavi's Bloody Past


• Extraordinary scenes in Iran


• History suggests the 'revolution' will fail


• How Quarreling Ayatollahs Affect Iran's Election Crisis


• In Iran, an Iron Cleric, Now Blinking


• In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences


• In Iran, Rafsanjani Urges Khamenei to Stop Ahmadinejad's 'False Allegations'


• Inconsistency on Electoral Legitimacy, in Lebanon and Iran


• Inquiry on 1994 Blast at Argentina Jewish Center Gets New Life


• Iran and America: The Spirit of 1908


• Iran and the U.S. do a 'war on terrorism' somersault


• Iran book publisher recalls weeklong ordeal in prison


• Iran Clerical Rift Widens as Rafsanjani Relatives Arrested


• Iran conflict isn't class warfare


• Iran erupts as voters back the democrator


• Iran Extends Election Probe Amid Growing Evidence


• Iranian Cabinet nominee wanted in Argentine attack


• Iranian Prosecutor General Acknowledges Torture of Some Protesters


• Iran's Crisis: The Opposition Weighs Its Options


• Iran's Election: The Odds of Fraud


• Iran’s Election Drama More Elaborate Than You Think


• Iran's Factional Disputes Grow Increasingly Bitter


• Iran's Green Revolution: Made in America?


• Iran's Michelle Obama?: The Woman Ahmadinejad Should Fear


• Iran's Next Supreme Leader?


• Iran's Power Struggle


• Iran's Pre-Political Revolt


• Iran's Rafsanjani is central to struggle within the regime


• Iran's Red Tide


• Iran: The Tragedy and the Future


• Is Iran gas ban a step toward war?


• Khamenei on the Way Out?


• Krauthammer's Projections


• Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran’s Election Results


• Liberty and the Tehran Spring


• Lincoln-Douglas debates, Iranian style


• Media fantasies in Iran


• Meet the ayatollahs


• Millionaire Mullahs


• Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran


• Mousavi, celebrated in Iranian protests, involved in anti-U.S. attacks in Lebanon


• Neocons for Ahmadinejad


• No Matter Who Is President of Iran, They Would Stone Me


• Non-Interference Means Not Interfering


• Outlasting the Ayatollahs


• Poetic justice of a green revolution


• Protesters cry: 'Death to Khamenei'


• Rafsanjani has enough support to remove Khamenei: reports


• Rafsanjani Quotes Khomeini Principles


• Regime Cracks down Again in Tehran, but Hardliners Question Brutal Tactics


• Requiem for a revolution


• Secret letter seems to prove Mousavi won poll


• Senior Iranian ayatollah slams election, confirming split


• Show Trials in Iran


• Something profound has changed: Iranians are losing their fear and mock the official line


• Spectre of Khomeini as religious radical still stalks Iran


• Stealing the Iranian Election


• The End Game in Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May Resolve


• The Guardian Council, the Power Behind the Elections


• The Impact of the Iranian Elections and TV Debates


• The Iranian Demonstrations Are Homegrown, and Must Stay That Way


• The Leaking Game: Planted News Stories Show New Bid by West to Say Iran Seeks Nuclear Weapons


• The Need for Strategic Patience on Iran


• The New Democrats: An intellectual history of the Green Wave


• The Next Explosion in Iran


• The State will win: Deal with it


• The Suffrage Green Preservation Society


• The urge to split the world into two warring camps is childish


• The 'Bomb Iran' contingent's newfound concern for The Iranian People


• The 'Neda video', torture, and the truth-revealing power of images


• There Will Be Blood


• Tiananmen Moments


• Top Jundallah Figure Says U.S. Ordered Attacks Inside Iran


• U.S. grants support to Iranian dissidents


• U.S. to increase funding for ‘hackivists’ aiding Iranians


• War with Iran: Has It Already Begun?


• Was Iran's election rigged? Here's what is known so far


• Who Put the 'Green' in the Green Revolution?


• Who Said 'No Comment'?


• Why are the Iranians dreaming again?


• Why is Dennis Ross being ousted as Obama envoy to Iran?

Iraq

• A reporter reflects on what war brought to Iraq


• After six years of 'liberation', Iraqis learn the limits of a free press


• Al-Hakim's Death Unsettles Iraqi Politics


• Blackwater in Court Today in War Crimes Hearing


• Colonizing Iraq


• Confidential memo reveals U.S. plan to provoke an invasion of Iraq


• Elections Shake Kurdistan: Strong Showing of 'Change' Party Stuns Political Elite


• From beyond the grave, Saddam reveals all (nearly)


• George Galloway at the U.S. Senate: Part 1, Part 2 (YouTube videos)


• Heads in the Sand: The 'Sunni awakening' could have started in 2004 if the Bush administration hadn't been so driven by ideology


• How the FBI Broke Saddam: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4


• Iraq: mission accomplished?


• Iraq book ban raises fears of free speech clampdown


• Iraq in throes of environmental catastrophe, experts say


• Iraq's Assyrian Christians find temporary home in Kurdistan


• Iraq's New Death Squad


• Iraq’s Shi'a power base shifts: Death of key leader brings questions about future of political empire


• Iraqi Oil Minister accused of mother of all sell-outs


• Iraqi Who Threw Shoes at Bush to Be Released Early


• Is Ethnic Strife Inevitable in Iraq?


• Kurdish magazine sparks wrath by urging Jews to return


• Minorities Can’t Escape Northern Iraq’s Ethno-religious Maelstrom


• Now It's a Census That Could Rip Iraq Apart


• Out Now!


• Powerful Iraqi Shi'a leader has died in Iran


• Radioactive wreckage and landmines blight Iraq


• Recalling the Downing Street Minutes


• Religion and Politics in Iraq: What Type of Sectarianism Really Exists?


• The Case for Leaving Iraq—Now


• The Saddam Files: His final interviews


• The Sheikh Down


• U.S. criticised for use of phosphorous in 2004 Fallujah attack


• U.S. forces to continue patrolling in Basra after June 30


• U.S. forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah


• U.S. role in Iraq doesn't end just yet


• U.S. takes in 1,350 Palestinian refugees


• U.S. troops to return to northern Iraq despite Barack Obama’s withdrawal plan


• Visits to a U.S. Prison in Iraq Often Bring More Worries and Questions


• Water, Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink in Iraq


• With Hakim’s Death, Who Leads Iraq’s Opposition Bloc?


• Worries About a Kurdish-Arab Conflict Move to the Fore in Iraq

Islam

• A better way to rid Canada of the burqa


• Declining Christian population a fact of life in Middle East


• Fears of an Islamic revolt in Europe begin to fade


• Why Fears of a Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong

Israel-Palestine

• 'Palestinians' Without 'Palestine'


• 'Socialized Medicine' and Hamas: Big Lies Thrive


• Abridged Histories of the Holy Land


• Are the Arabs Ready for Peace with Israel?


• Behind Hamas's Own War on Terrorism


• Breaking Bibi


• Can Fatah reinvent itself?


• Debating, Again, the Founding of Israel


• Fatah extends stormy conference


• Fatah strangled at rebirth


• Fatah's old guard ousted by election of intifada chief


• From Sheikh Jarrah to Sheikh Munis


• Gaza's two years under Hamas: order and absurdity


• Hamas leader says ready to accept state on 1967 borders


• Hamas profits from Israel's Gaza blockade


• How Israel's naval blockade denies Gazans food and aid


• Israel considered two-state solution just after Six-Day War


• Israel starving Gaza of power and water


• Israel's settlement setback


• Israel's settlements are on shaky ground


• Israeli, Palestinian mayors address water contamination


• Israeli 'Settlements': Fictions on the Ground


• Loss of nuclear monopoly: an Israeli nightmare


• Netanyahu's Illusory Concession on a Palestinian State


• Palestian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated


• Quiet Slicing of the West Bank Makes Abstract Prayers for Peace Obscene


• The Beleaguered Christians of the Palestinian-Controlled Areas


• The Disappearing Palestinian


• The First Israeli Jew in Fatah's Parliament


• The Million Person Gap: The Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza (.pdf file)


• The Two-State Solution Doesn't Solve Anything


• Unlikely Ally for Residents of West Bank


• What Actually Happened in Fatah's Elections?


• Why Israel will thwart Obama on settlements


• Zionism: A Defense

Latin America

• Democracy hangs by a thread in Honduras


• History Haunts Honduras


• Honduras’s swift coup was months in the making


• U.S.-Colombia Strategic Accord Prompts Questions at Home, Across Region

Lebanon

• 'Despite defeat Hezbollah remains a potent political force'


• A victory where all 'remains the same'


• Aah, that damned popular vote…


• Anatomy of a Victory


• Balancing act for Lebanon's opposition


• Breakthrough in Tribunal Investigation: New Evidence Points to Hezbollah in Hariri Assassination


• Bring it Aoun


• Deconstructing the Popular Vote


• Deconstructing the Popular Vote in Lebanon's Election


• Democracy, Lebanese-Style


• Did Obama Win Lebanese Election?


• Enemies All Around Us


• Five hours of hate town can't forget


• Hezbollah handed a stinging defeat


• Hizbullah: It Feels So Good to Be So Bad…


• In Lebanon Vote, Stark Options, Complex Choices


• Lebanon dodges Hezbollah bullet, for now


• Lebanon vote undercuts Hezbollah and is a boost for Obama


• Lebanon's Exodus


• Militant captured in Lebanon day after jailbreak


• More political strife in Lebanon expected after victory of U.S.-backed coalition


• New to Politics But Not to Sorrow


• Preserving Christian Lebanon


• Shattered Christian Minorities in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon


• Shi'a-Christian alliance shakes Lebanon politics


• Shooting blanks and the popular vote


• Should We Worry About Sami Gemayel?


• The 1983 Suicide Attack on US Marines in Beirut - Hezbollah Attack Killing 241 US Marines in Beirut (1983)


• The Closing of the Christian Womb in the Middle East


• The Lebanese Elections: A Box Office Success?


• The political dilemma facing Lebanese Christians


• What Really Happened in the Lebanese Elections?

Media

• Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters


• Journalists' Recent Work Examined Before Being Embedded


• Military Prepares Profiles on Reporters Visiting War Zones


• Shocked, Shocked! The Pentagon Is Profiling Journalists!


• The Coming Media Bailout


• The media can't handle the truth

Russia and Its Neighbours

• Canada to spend $30M securing bio-warfare labs


• Central Asia Sounds Alarm on Islamic Radicalism


• Fear stalks Caucasus amid hidden war


• Fool Me Twice


• Kyrgyzstan: At the Crossroad of Empires, a Mouse Struts


• Letter from Tbilisi


• NATO Gains Weight


• North Korean labor camps a ghastly prospect for U.S. journalists


• Russia's Knotty Policies on Islam, Mirrored in Trial


• Russia's 'Loose Nukes': The continuing threat to American security


• Truck bomb signals on Russia's southern flank


• U.S. courts Central Asian human-rights abusers in Taliban fight

Illegal and Questionable U.S. Government Policies

• A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers


• A Thousand Little Gitmos


• A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails


• ABC News' Interview with Lakhdar Boumediene and Our Current Policies


• Attorney General Appoints Torture Prosecutor, Rejects Nuremberg Principle


• Bush Surveillance Program Was Massive


• Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept


• Cheney's New Gambit


• Cheney's Plans for a Military Coup


• Christians Largely Mum on Torture


• CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims


• CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Detainee's Will


• CIA Renewed Contract With Psychologists Who Endorsed Waterboarding Weeks After Obama Took Office Before Firing Them


• CIA spies 'certified' with 2 weeks training


• CIA Used Gun and Drill in Interrogation of Alleged USS Cole Attack Mastermind


• Civilian trials won't be cakewalks for Guantanamo detainees


• Conservative Magazine: 'Sibel Edmonds Speaks, But No One is Listening'


• Deaths and Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report


• Enhanced Justification Techniques


• Extraordinary Measures


• Feds Urge Dismissal of Wiretapping Case


• Freed Uighurs relishing Bermuda’s sun and sand


• Fringe Leftist Losers: Wrong Even When They're Right


• From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?


• Grays of Making Them Talk: The fuzzy line between approved interrogation methods and Torture


• Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib… Bagram?


• Guantanamo's Youngest Prisoner Released to Chad


• How Civilized, Law-Abiding Countries Imprison Terrorists


• In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush


• Interview with Philip Giraldi: The long-awaited deposition of Sibel Edmonds, Marc Grossman’s 2001 outing of CIA front group Brewster Jennings, the failure of the MSM to cover news outside the left-right paradigm, the incredible level of corruption in the U.S. government, and the influence of Turkish and Israeli lobbies in Congress.


• Justice Department Eyes Narrow 'Investigation' Into CIA Torture


• Justice Department May Skirt Court Order on Interrogation Documents


• Letting Cheney Off the Hook


• New Revelations About the Torture of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi


• New York Times Finally Apologizes for Guantanamo Recidivism Story


• Obama Administration to Formalize, Continue Rendition System


• Obama goes to bat for Bush wiretap program


• Obama's Embrace of Signing Statements, Riles Congress


• Obama's support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law


• Pentagon Report Verified Detainee Torture


• Real ID: A Real Warning on the Danger of Government


• Report Details 'Massive Surveillance' and 'Inappropriate Secrecy' in Bush-era Wiretap Program


• Seven Points on the CIA Report


• Sibel Edmonds' Deposition: Video and Transcript Released


• Stop Letting Cheney Frame the Torture Debate


• The CIA's Bad Apples


• The Mysterious Eleventh Torture Technique: Prolonged Diapering?


• The New York Times Calls Iranian Interrogation Tactics 'Torture'


• The New York Times's Failure of Understanding


• The NSA is still listening to you


• The Shahrukh Khan Affair—The Aftermath


• To Critics, Obama's Terrorism Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush's


• Tortured Truth


• Two U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11’s Wake


• Uighurs held at Guantanamo Going to Pacific Nation of Palau


• United States: Trade in Torture


• Vanishing Liberties


• Washington Post Helps CIA Defend Torture


• What every American should be made to learn about the CIA Inspector General Torture Report


• What if the Uighurs were Christian rather than Muslim?


• What's Missing from the CIA Documents


• Whistleblower's Courage at Guantanamo


• Who Are We?

War and Intervention

• After $22 billion, little proof UN programs work


• Bill Kristol condemns lying for political ends: seriously


• Bombings Worse than Nagasaki and Hiroshima


• How to Deal with America's Empire of Bases


• Interview with Eric Margolis: The troop increase and mission creep in Afghanistan, U.S. alliances with Central Asian despots, the subservience of the State Department to the Pentagon in foreign policy, and the consequences of the sanctions on Iran.


• Interview with Michael Scheuer: The government’s reliance on CIA covert action instead of conventional military force to protect the U.S., how the Congress and President fail to take meaningful action because they seek the adulation of the media and Europe, the wisdom in leaving Afghanistan ASAP, and how Americans won’t realize their government isn’t protecting them until Osama bin Laden attacks again.


• Is the Antiwar Movement Waking Up?


• Just Six More Months to Victory!


• Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Empire


• Not So Huddled Masses: Multiculturalism and Foreign Policy


• Our Suicide Bombers


• Pentagon Official Questions U.S. Message to Muslims


• The Scapegoat's Apology


• U.S. eyes 12 giant 'bunker buster' bombs


• War? What War?


• What If Osama Calls Obama's Bluff?


• Why Policy Matters

Uncategorized

• A Revisionist's Burden


• Don Marquis: A Non-Religious Anti-Abortion Argument


• Don't Get That College Degree!


• Frail, cowardly Winston saved us


• How new grads can get hired, even now


• Practical Internet Privacy


• Preparedness for Travelers


• The justifications of the torturer


• Top five right and wrong reasons to get married