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Hasbara Author vs. Iran’s Bomb

Iran is threatened by Israel and America on a daily basis. Unlike Israel, a nation spiritually guided by suicidal biblical and historical narratives such as Samson and Masada, Iran's military

President Obama: Getting to ‘Yes’

Whilst America has been absorbed by the Afghan election imbroglio, a less-noticed event slid into place in the Middle East.

It’s good to talk to Iran

Despite the diplomatic grandstanding over Iran's nuclear programme, the latest round of the P5+1 talks in Vienna has proven anticlimactic. Obama's groundbreaking revelation of Iran's secret Qom facility last month

Obama Can Win Afghanistan With Soft Partition & the “Reverse McCrystal Strategy”

Today, the Center for New Politics and Policy (CNPP) released its recommendations to abate the Taliban insurgency and stabilize Afghanistan with a new strategy paper called “Obama Can Win Afghanistan

Why Obama is the President of War not “Change”

This penetrating overview and analysis traces the ideology driving the Obama administration back to the concept of a "Divine America" and the policies applied against the indigenous people of North

Obama’s challenge: An Islamic renaissance

IN AUGUST, I returned to Egypt, the country of my birth, for the first time since President Obama spoke in June at the University of Cairo.

Dear America: Letter From a Muslim-American

I write to you, America, as a Muslim-American who is frustrated at seeing both sides of my identity spreading myths about each other. In part one of this two part

How to Trap a President in a Losing War

Why is it that a Democratic candidate needs a war or threat of war to trash-talk about in order to prove his 'strength', when doing so is obviously a sign

Editorial: Muslim Brotherhood Hits the Obama Campaign Trail

The ongoing controversy in the U.S. surrounding resignation of Mr. Mazen Asbahi, Muslim-outreach advisor to presumptive democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, is quite intriguing.

A Model Democracy Is not Emerging in Iraq”

Francis Fukuyama was a life-long neo-conservative prior to the election of the Bush Administration. The Iraq war led him to change his mind. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to Fukuyama about the