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Israel and the Klein Doctrine

The recent meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted the difficulty of untying the… more

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Israel’s Center Does Not Hold

Netanyahu's coalition begins to govern, as the world awaits a two-state solution.

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Putting a Stop to Stop Loss

Pentagon ends the back-door draft, but critics fear a return with Afghanistan surge.

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‘Kidnapped’ in Gaza

A BBC correspondent's book--now available in the United States--details his Gaza kidnapping and collects balanced reportage from the Middle East and Central Asia.

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To Boycott Israel…or Not?

Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow debate whether divestment will bring peace to the Middle East.

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Iran’s History Comes Out

A new book brilliantly details the evolution of gender and sexuality from pre-modern Persia to the 20th century.

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Israel, Gaza and the Left

One of the left's most significant ideological failings in recent years has been its habit of issuing shrill and… more

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Hamas, Gaza and Bush’s Legacy

One would have to have a heart of stone not to be appalled by the mass suffering visited upon… more

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A Massacre in 3/4 Time

Waltz with Bashir is hallucinatory, relentless, and amazing.

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Gaza Under Siege

Gaza has been redefined. Gaza is now synonymous with carnage, rising death tolls, destroyed schools, and city streets slick… more

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Gaza in the Crosshairs

Israel cites all the wrong reasons for its invasion of Gaza.

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Operation Infinite Imperialism

Two recent books examine America’s military and diplomatic forays into South and Central Asia.

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Promoting Incompetence in Iraq

Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Gens. George Casey, David Petraeus and Ricardo Sanchez have not heeded… more

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The Friendship Offensive

Peace activists on Capitol Hill hope to stave off war with Iran through cross-cultural contact between ordinary citizens

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New Jewish Lobby Counters Neocons

On April 15, after 18 months of planning, a new progressive Jewish lobby called J Street was launched as… more

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RoboCop in Iraq

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

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Resister in Exile

Haifa Zangana survived Saddam, and urges Iraqi women to survive the occupation

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Empire’s Architecture

Should it ever be finished, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration's failures

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No Talking to the Enemy

Both the U.S. and Iranian governments have been stopped dialogues between citizens seeking peaceful resolution

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Why Is Yazan Sawalha in Prison?

Israel has detained the son of a prominent Palestinian peace activist, and refuses to say why.

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Rocking Lolita in Tehran

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

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The Boy Who Cried WMD

It's time for George W. Bush to holster his guns and ride off into that Wild West sunset only he can see

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Youth Gone Wild

Jared Cohen's book Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels among the Youth of the Middle East seeks to understand an area of the world where hatred for his country and religion run rampant

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The Accidental War

The Bush administration might not deliberately launch a war with Iran, heightened U.S.-Iran tensions could push some minor incident into a major conflict.

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Funding Iraqs Citizen Soldiers

Is the Pentagon's neighborhood watch strategy protecting Iraqis or stoking the civil war?

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A Resolution Too Far?

U.S.-Turkish relations, already strained by the war in Iraq, are being tested further by the controversial congressional resolution recognizing the 1915 genocide of Armenians.

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Make-a-Sheikh

How the Pentagon transformed a contractor into a symbol of the surge's 'success'

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Ehud Barak’s Second Coming

In Israel's current political atmosphere, the onetime dove returns dressed in a hawk's feathers

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Another War We Can’t Afford

The neo-cons may be coordinating with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and all the usual suspects to build enough public support to bomb Iran

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Crocker’s Kooky Economics

In his testimony to the House and Senate, even Ambassador Ryan Crocker's limited claims of economic success in Iraq were laughable

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Smearing Israel’s Critics

Former DePaul professor Finkelstein joins a growing list of academics censored for criticizing the Holy Land's foreign policy

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Why Iraq is Getting Worse

A new civil war between Shiites erupts within the old civil war between Sunnis and Shiites

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Unveiling Muslim Feminism

Muslim women's bodies are too frequently used to symbolize the state of Islam in Iran, and the degree to which it associates itself with the West

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Palestinians in Iraq Face a Second Exile

Threatened in Iraq, these refugees have no country to return to.

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Iraq: Mismanagement or Mass Murder?

No End in Sight explores how we got into Iraq and what screw-ups have made the situation spiral out of control

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Death from Above

For the Iraqi people, the surge in U.S. troops has meant more bombs dropping from the sky and a surge in deaths

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The New Children’s Crusade

Vets like Vincent J. Emanuele and other Iraq Veterans Against the War inherit the reins from the Vietnam era peacenicks before them

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Iraqi Unions Fight the New Oil Law

"Written in the United States," the law would permit joint ownership of many Iraqi oil fields by foreign companies

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Iran and America’s Tug of War

Iran's real threat to the United States has less to do with nuclear ambitions and more to do with an explosive tension between politics and resources

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In the Crosshairs

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers

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