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Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks

American-style sprawl is adversely affecting the outposts of our global empire

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The Olympic Hustle

Chicagoans are already beginning to fear what hosting the 2016 Summer Games might do to their city

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A View on Pelosi from a World Away

Chinese students are less than impressed with Nancy Pelosi's fight for human rights in their country

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Ethnic Cleansing in Russia

Putin stokes the flames of xenophobia by targeting non-Slavs in Georgia.

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Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass

The Bush administration's pragmatic policy toward Pakistan suggests its foreign policy is less ideological than imperial

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Fighting the Larger War

The War On Terror is unique because its political, temporal and geographic borders are unknown and its enemy is fluidly ill-defined.

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Lets be Realists, Let?s Demand the Impossible!

Why pragmatic politics are doomed to fail in the Middle East

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Examining Irans ties to Hezbollah

Just how much influence does the Islamic Republic wield over Hezbollah?

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Mexican Vote Count Still in Question

Vote count in Mexican presidential election undecided after election.

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Europe Turns a Blind Eye to the CIA

EU governments are ignoring the CIA's transportation of terror suspects to torture sitesWhy are EU governments ignoring the CIA's transport terror suspects to torture sites?

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The U.S.-Israeli Somalia Plan

In his first visit to the White House on May 23, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told President… more

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Diplomatic Hypocrisy in the Middle East

In May, President George W. Bush and an adoring Congress offered lavish support for a unilateral plan by… more

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Irans Powerless President

Kaveh Ehsani speaks about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Drug Warriors Push Eye-Eating Fungus

Why are members of Congress advocating the use of a dangerous crop-killer in Colombia?

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Iran Exports Anti-Gay Pogrom to Iraq

The murder of gay men in Iraq represents the importation of the anti-gay killings being carried out in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Charting a Sane Course in the Middle East

When the planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, "everything changed." Or so people said.… more

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Locating Argentine Memories

The Archive for Permanent Memory reunites children of the disappeared with their pasts

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The New Slum Dwellers

Mike Davis discusses his new book, Planet of Slums

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The Israel Lobby and its Discontents

A working paper by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University, titled… more

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Political Upheaval

Latin America challenges the Washington Consensus

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Head of Stage

Berlusconi uses members of Congress as props in his bid for re-election

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Raising a Million Voices for Darfur

Right now, hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese government's genocide in Darfur are packed… more

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Were Sanctions Worth the Price?

As conflict with Iran looms, questions remain about the moral implications of sanctions

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Hamas: Sharons Legacy?

Both the Israeli and Palestinian political arenas are in turmoil. In Israel, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke has… more

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No Discounted Transit for Oil

As part of a broad PR campaign this winter, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered discounted home heating… more

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Irans Anti-Gay Pogrom

American gay rights groups are ignoring systematic persecution in the Islamic Republic

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Beatrice Were: Fighting a Deadly U.S. AIDS Policy in Uganda

In the early '90s, something remarkable happened in Uganda: While the AIDS epidemic spiraled out of control in… more

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Cult of Ideology

North Korea struggles to save face by resisting crucial foreign aid

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The Trouble with French Identity

The riots in France reveal the cracks in its national project

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The Real Case for Israel

What lies behind Alan Dershowitz's campaign against Norman Finkelstein?

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Brothers in Arms

The United States moves a step closer to restoring military aid to Indonesia, despite its massive human rights abuses

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No Negotiation

Sharon reveals his plans for the West Bank

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Hand Over the Keys

A generous gesture can make a difference

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Thanks, But Well Do It Ourselves

Against enlightened administration

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The Real Memogate

President Bush gratefully received Tony Blair's support for the invasion of Iraq, but that relationship may now be… more

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George in Georgia

The president's short, happy visit to the former Soviet state masked the long-term failures of U.S. policy.

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How to End the War

The central question we need to answer is this: What were the real reasons for the Bush administration's… more

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Wake Up!

Washington's alarming foreign policy

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Failures of a Hit Manђ

From David Horowitz to David Brock, partisan turncoats who abandon their youthful convictions often receive generous attention from… more

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Bolton vs. United Nations

Bush's mad cop–bad cop ruse

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