By ROBERT WRIGHT / NY Times The debate becomes about who should bomb Iran, not about whether Iran should be bombed.

Categories: Iran  Israel  The US  Nuclear Weapons  War  Propaganda  

Added: August 18, 2010

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By Marwan Bishara /Al Jazeera If Western wars are meant to 'liberate' Muslim women, why do centuries of Western military intervention have so little to show, asks Marwan Bishara.

Categories: Afghanistan  Muslim Women  Islam  Gender Equality  Feminism  War  

Added: August 09, 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 John Barry, Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau / Newsweek Most of the players in the region are already planning for it-except maybe the Taliban

Categories: Afghanistan  Barack Obama  Taliban  Hamid Karzai  War  

Added: July 08, 2010

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By David Moon / Asia Times Online If Obama's decision is to watch and listen, the strike group can try a run for home across northern Saudi Arabia. Here, the Saudis have a decision. The Saudi Air Force can defend the kingdom's airspace, possibly taking loses and handing out same, or the Israelis can bet on G-550s tricking out the kingdom's air defenses in a manner that gives the Saudis an excuse to say they were blinded by the IAF and the non-cooperation of the US.

Categories: Iran  Israel  The US  War  Aggression  

Added: June 30, 2010

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By Fidel Castro / Cuba.cu I have absolutely no doubt that as soon as the American and Israeli warships are deployed -alongside the rest of the American military vessels positioned off the Iranian coasts-- and they try to inspect the first merchant ship from that country, there will be a massive launching of missiles in both directions. At that moment exactly the terrible war will begin.

Categories: Iran  War  The US  Israel  

Added: June 29, 2010

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By JAMES RISEN / NY Times The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself

Categories: Afghanistan  The US  War  Mineral Deposits  

Added: June 14, 2010

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By Uri Avnery /Gush Shalom "Kill a Turk and rest," the mother says in the joke. Our government does not even rest. It seems that they will not stop until they have made enemies of the last of our friends.

Categories: Israel  Turkey  War  Peace  Jewish History  

Added: June 06, 2010

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By James Rothenberg /Countercurrents.org All the troops, all the missiles, all the Predator drones are there to bring Afghanistan under American dependence, consolidating U.S. presence in the oil and gas rich Caspian Basin with its geopolitical significance toward potential enemies Russia and China, and encircling Iran.

Categories: Afghanistan  Oil  War  The US  Military Interventions  

Added: June 05, 2010

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By Maulana Waris Mazhari /Translated by Yoginder Sikand/ Noor Mohammad Sikand The doctrine and ideology of offensive jihad is in accordance neither with Islam's teachings of mercy and justice, nor with reason and human nature.

Categories: Jihad  al-Qur'an  Islam  History  War  

Added: April 05, 2010

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