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Jim Lobe: “Israel’s Advocate” to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank

Jim Lobe’s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com.   IPS — November 11, 2011   WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) – Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama’s topMiddle Eastaide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House [...]

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Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground

Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs.   Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as “facts”.    Al Jazeera   Last Modified: 27 [...]

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US double standard: Gaddafi bad, Karimov good

The US shows its hypocrisy by accusing ‘tyrants’ of human rights abuses while not owning up to supporting dictators. Ted Rall Ted Rall is an American political cartoonist, columnist and author. His most recent book is The Anti-American Manifesto. His website is rall.com.  Al Jazeera     Last Modified: 31 Oct 2011 13:45   “After four decades [...]

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Greater Israel—or Peace?

The American Conservative    October 19th, 2011   Pathbreaking scholars Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer speak out about the precarious future of the Jewish state.   Shortly before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived inNew Yorkto seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state, TAC’s Scott McConnell sat down with Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer to [...]

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Jim Lobe: Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for War With Iran

Antiwar Forum   October 19, 2011   Key neoconservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003U.S.invasion ofIraqare calling for military strikes againstIranin retaliation for its purported murder-for-hire plot against the Saudi ambassador.   Leading the charge is the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), the ideological successor to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which [...]

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Obama Has Awlaki’s 16-Yr-Old Son, Friends Killed at Dinner

16-Year-Old US Citizen, Friends Were Eating Dinner When Missile Landed  by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum   October 18, 2011   The extra-legal assassination ofNew Mexicocleric Anwar al-Awlaki was certainly controversial in its own right, but reports about the assassination targeting some sort of terrorist convoy seem to be crumbling under evidence and the number of children [...]

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Profiles in Patronage — Obama Campaign Reports More than 350 Big Bundlers

By Peter Stone, Elizabeth Lucas, John Aloysius Farrell, Paul Abowd, Rachel Marcus   IWatch News      October 17, 2011    More than 350 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysis of the campaign’s Friday disclosure. [3]  And more than 40 [...]

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Patrick Cockburn: Iran had better watch its step now Obama’s chasing votes

A fumbling Tehran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was dismissed as bizarre by the rest of the world. But the White House is taking it very seriously Independent    Sunday, 16 October 2011   The plot in which an Iranian-American fromCorpus Christi,Texas, notorious locally for his Clouseau-like dimwittedness, tries to hire a Mexican gangster to [...]

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Obama must give back the Nobel Peace Prize

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New War of Choice in Uganda Follows Familiar Foreign Police Doctrine

Sending 100 combat troops to Uganda, Obama is fighting a routine fight: unnecessary war, support for dictatorship, and blowback as an afterthought  by John Glaser   Antiwar Forum    October 15, 2011   President Obama’s deployment of 100UScombat forces toUgandaand surrounding areas has shocked many as highly unusual and even downright bizarre. But while ground troops [...]

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Why Did the United States Invade Afghanistan?

by Tim Kelly, Tim Kelly is a columnist and policy advisor at the Future of Freedom Foundation in Fairfax, Virginia, a correspondent for Radio America’s Special Investigator, and a political cartoonist.   The Future of Freedom Foundation                October 12, 2012  The tenth anniversary of theU.S. led war inAfghanistan came and went with very little attention [...]

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Conservatives smear ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests as anti-Semitic

By Eric W. Dolan Raw Story          Thursday, October 13, 2011   The Emergency Committee forIsrael, a Republican group, has become the latest to claim the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in lowerManhattanis anti-Semitic.   The group has created a video advertisement that shows anti-Semitic signs at the protests. The video will air in a “substantial” buy [...]

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