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Obama's Opportunity

Excerpt: Our interventionist foreign policy stands ready to be put on a new course with the new administration. (read more)

The Ponzi Scheme Presidency

Excerpt: It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE. (read more)

Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault

Excerpt: Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government. (read more)

Networks' Int'l News Coverage at Record Low in 2008

Excerpt: Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report. (read more)

Rationalizing Gaza

Excerpt: We all know the rationalization for Israel's brutal invasion of the Gaza Strip. (read more)

The New Iraqi Sovereignty

Excerpt: There's got to be some irony in the U.S. transference of control to Iraqi security forces while the Israelis pound Gaza. (read more)

Bringing the Arab-Israeli War Home

Excerpt: If America were blessed with a noninterventionist foreign policy, we could all thank Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for giving President-elect Barack Obama a thoroughgoing lesson in the absolute irrelevancy of Israel and Palestine to the national interests of the United States. (read more)

The Empire Shrugs

Excerpt: My early reaction to the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip is perhaps more U.S.-centered than some others'. (read more)

Monday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 45 Wounded

Excerpt: Updated at 7:05 p.m. EST, Jan. 5, 2009 A half dozen bombs struck Baghdad today, but none seemed to target foreign pilgrims streaming towards Karbala. Across Iraq, at least 7 Iraqis were killed and 45 were wounded in reported attacks. The Constitutional Freedoms and Rights Observatory said that 43,111 Iraqis were touched by violence last year; included in the figure were arrests. Many Iraqis have complained of false arrests and incarceration without trial, but there was no mention if the arrests were legitimate. (read more)

Sunday: 27 Iraqis, 16 Iranians Killed in Iraq; 89 Wounded

Excerpt: Updated at 10:46 p.m. EST, Jan. 4, 2009 Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims, many foreign, are making their way to Karbala to observe the Ashuraa holiday which culminates in three days. As in the past, troublemakers have taken advantage of the 10-day holiday despite increases in security. Overall, at least 27 Iraqis were killed and 52 Iraqis were wounded across Iraq, while approximately 16 Iranians were killed and 37 more were wounded at an important shrine in Baghdad. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, outgoing U.S. Vice President Cheney said that the U.S. is close to achieving its aims in Iraq, and U.S. forces handed over authority of a security group in Diyala to the Iraqis. (read more)