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Obama Should “Resist the Call” to Intervene in Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
by Robert E. Hunter via IPS News But what I think the American people also expect me to do as president is to think through what we do from the perspective of, what is in our long-term national inte...
Syria Spotlights Problematic International Law 27 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
by Mitchell Plitnick Russia is not staying silent as the US appears to be positioning itself for an attack on the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Defending its last key ally in the region, Russian F...
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Is Not Going Away 26 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
by Jasmin Ramsey Almost 1,000 Egyptians have died, according to the official count, since Aug. 14 when Egypt’s armed forces began clamping down on Muslim Brotherhood-led protests against the military...
Beware Ilan Berman’s Citations of U.S. Officials on Iran 25 Aug 2013 | 05:26 am
by Jim Lobe In critiquing Sebastian Rotella’s recent ProPublica report about alleged Iranian/Hezbollah activities in Latin America, I came across a surprising discovery. As readers of this blog know,...
The Exchange with ProPublica Continues… 24 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
by Jim Lobe For those of you who have followed the recent exchanges between myself and ProPublica, another one took place following the publication of Gareth’s piece on Sebastian Rotella’s coverage o...
Washington’s Worries Grow Over Saudi Ties 22 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
by Jim Lobe via IPS News As the administration of President Barack Obama continues wrestling with how to react to the military coup in Egypt and its bloody aftermath, officials and independent analy...
Egypt — the Calm or the Storm? 22 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
by Henry Precht When General Amr Ibn al-As captured Egypt for Islam in 640, he sent this message to his commander: I give you Egypt, its fields are ever green, its Nile is ever flowing and its peopl...
The American Right’s Holy War in Egypt 21 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
by Daniel Luban For the last few weeks, Lobelog has been noting the continued disagreements among US neoconservatives over how to respond to the military coup in Egypt, with a few prominent neocons s...
How Rotella Reported Another Dubious Iranian Bomb Plot 21 Aug 2013 | 08:54 am
by Gareth Porter [While the terrible events in Egypt have delayed my plans to reply to ProPublica’s response to my critique of Sebastian Rotella’s report on the alleged build-up of Iran’s terrorist i...
Don’t Worry About the Peace Treaty 20 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
by Paul R. Pillar via The National Interest As the Obama administration struggles to walk a fine policy line on Egypt that takes appropriate account of the diverse U.S. interests at stake, one subje...
