By John Pilger /Newstatesman.com Having helped destroy other nations far away, our former prime minister - "peace envoy" to the Middle East - is now free to profit from the useful contacts he made while working as a "servant of the people".

Categories: Iraq  Britain  War Atrocities  Justice  Middle East  

Added: August 06, 2010

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By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach / Global Research Is there anyone comparable to Frederik de Klerk, capable of recognizing that a system founded on injustice could not morally survive? Yitzhak Rabin apparently reached that conclusion. Who is prepared to take up his legacy today?

Categories: Israel  Iran  Middle East  War  

Added: July 27, 2010

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By Muddassar Ahmed / altmuslim.com The never-ending ability of Iran to outsmart and be underestimated by its foes means that a more daring and honest approach is needed to foster peace and stability in the Middle East.

Categories: Iran  Middle East  Turkey  The US  

Added: July 08, 2010

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By LANDON THOMAS Jr. / NY Times For many in aging and debt-weary Europe, which will be lucky to eke out a little more than 1 percent growth this year, Turkey's economic renaissance - last week it reported a stunning 11.4 percent expansion for the first quarter, second only to China - poses a completely new question: who needs the other one more - Europe or Turkey?

Categories: Turkey  Europe  Islam  Economics  Middle East  

Added: July 06, 2010

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By Ramzy Baroud /Countercurrents.org Turkey is moving Eastward, it is in no small part because it was pushed, and pushed by some in Europe refusing to give Turkey the kind of organic link to the West that Turkey sought.

Categories: Turkey  Middle East  European Union  Israel  

Added: June 17, 2010

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By By Adrian Blomfield, Middle East Correspondent / The Telegraph The United States has ordered a major escalation of clandestine military operations in Iran and other parts of the Middle East, according to a secret directive.

Categories: Middle East  Iran  The US  War on Terror  US Army  

Added: May 26, 2010

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By Michael Schwartz /TomDispatch.com The end is not in sight and the outcome still unclear. Will the vast Iraqi oil reserves be developed and sent into the hungry world market any time soon? If they are, who will determine the rate of flow, and so wield the power this decision-making confers? And once this ocean of oil is sold, who will receive the potentially incredible revenues? As with so much else, when it comes to Iraqi oil, the American war has generated so many problems and catastrophes -- and so few answers.

Categories: Oil  Occupation  Iraq  Middle East  The US  OPEC  

Added: February 03, 2010

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By Alexandra Sandels in Beirut /latimesblogs.latimes.com Jermaine Jackson added that the amount of time Michael spent in the Middle East and the number of friends he had there also indicated he had embraced Islam.

Categories: Islam  Middle East  New Muslims  The US  

Added: January 23, 2010

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By Rannie Amiri / Countercurrents.org Today, Friday Dec. 18, is the first day of the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar; 1 Muharram, 1431 A.H. Unfortunately, the New Year shows all signs of being another troubled one in the Middle East , with multiple hot spots unlikely to cool anytime soon.

Categories: The Muslim World  Islam  Middle East  Violence  

Added: December 18, 2009

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By Uri Avnery / Gush Shalom The struggle over the Goldstone report is now at its height. In Jerusalem, the rising energy of the waves can be clearly felt. Does this portend a tsunami?

Categories: Israel  History  Middle East  Occupation  Palestine  

Added: October 27, 2009

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