Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dastardly Don Trump has urged Israel to strike at Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment sites, which include the uranium conversion […]
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Are the Taliban Surrounding NATO Armies and Cutting them Off? Why Washington Needs Iran and Russia
There is an old saying in military affairs, that everyone wants to do strategy and tactics, but real men do logistics. That is, moving persons […]
Abdullah Will not Accept Karzai Victory; Ethnic Conflict could Flare; Pentagon using Rendon to Vet Journalists
Things to worry about on a lazy August Sunday: Abdullah Abdullah, the leading rival to incumbent Hamid Karzai in the Afghanistan presidential elections, told a […]
Is Karzai trying to Steal the Afghanistan Election, taking a Leaf from Ahmadinejad’s Book?
The BBC is reporting that Obama’s special envoy to AfPak, Richard Holbrooke, has had a shouting match with President Hamid Karzai over the desirability of […]
Khamenei Backs off on Charge of Western Plots; Ayatollahs Sani’i and Montazeri Attack Khamenei.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that he did not believe the leaders of Iran’s protesters against the official presidential election results were instigated […]
Al-Hakim’s Death Unsettles Iraqi Politics
The big news in Iraq was the death from cancer in Tehran of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the clerical leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of […]
Palestinians Plan State, but Will Netanyahu Block it?
The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, has put forward a plan for a Palestinian state to be attained within 2 years. This is the first […]
41 Killed in Qandahar Bombing; Karzai & Abdullah Neck and Neck; Taliban Threaten Western Capitals; 4 US Soldiers Killed
A massive truck bomb was set off near a Japanese construction company in the southwestern city of Qandahar in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing about 41 […]
Ted Kennedy on How America Got Mired in Iraq
Senator Ted Kennedy’s death Tuesday night has deprived the nation of one of the most insightful and committed progressive politicians the country had. Kennedy all […]
Congress Needs to Pass some Laws on controversial issues
The thing that concerns me most about the investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogators is that US law served as such a poor guide to […]