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What Happened to Obama's Promises? |
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 |
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Barack Obama's choice of giving top cabinet positions to sharp-tongued Washington insiders has so far signaled anything but 'the change we need'. |
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What Hurled Shoes Say about America's Standing in the World |
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
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If we and the world are lucky, the flying shoes will come to mark a crucial moment in the United States' global leadership, a moment when we began opting for genuine diplomacy. |
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The Poison Pens of Zionism |
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
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Recently, a group of ex-politicians and friends of Israel presented a petition to the UN, demanding that Iranian leaders be prosecuted for "incitement of hatred" against Israel and for "threatening to wipe it off the map". |
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Orwell Revisited: Iran and Dirty Bombs |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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Iran fear-mongers in the United States are now seeking other evidence to disprove US intelligence reports that Tehran is not developing a nuclear weapon. Some of them have settled on the next best alternative - the "hostile other" has the capability to produce dirty bombs, even though such devices can be made by using material from literally tens of thousands of sources. |
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U.S. Military Defiant on Key Terms of Iraqi Pact |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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U.S. military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the U.S.-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops. |
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The Mindset That Got Us Into War Is Alive and Well |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Are we to believe that the same people who played a major role in starting the illegal Iraq war and ratcheting up tensions with Iran will suddenly undergo a fundamental transformation of their mindset? Not likely. An intelligent man like the president-elect should know better. |
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Iran Uncertain About Obama's Intentions |
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
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Gareth Porter, a veteran investigative journalist and historian just returned from Iran, says early optimism that President-elect Barack Obama would open a new dialogue with Iran has dissipated. Porter says many Iranian political figures now see Obama's selection of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state as an indication he will continue Washington's insistence that Iran first signal a willingness to suspend its nuclear enrichment program before engaging more intensely. |
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Obama’s Defence Appointee Signals Continuing US Belligerence |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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The threat of a new eruption of US militarism in the Middle East under the Obama administration demonstrates that the driving forces are not malevolent individuals but the fundamental economic and strategic interests of US imperialism. Whatever tactical differences may exist between the Bush and Obama administrations, the entire political establishment is united in its determination to exploit American military superiority to offset the US's declining economic power. |
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SPECIAL SERIES: Iran's Regional Power Rooted in Shi'a Ties |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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As Barack Obama's national security team assesses the challenge of Iran's role in the Middle East, it confronts a paradox: Iran is seen as having ambitions of regional hegemony, but it lacks the military power normally associated with such a role. |
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A Peek into Iran's Nuclear Pandora's Box |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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If Moscow's combined intelligence agencies are in agreement that Iran does not have nuclear-weapons capability, it calls for serious rethinking about whether the "crisis" built up over Tehran going nuclear was nothing but the neo-conservatives' bogey to roll back Iran's rise as the impresario of a Shi'ite resurgence in the Middle East. |
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