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America and the Dictators: From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai

The Obama administration’s devolving relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul is also an eerie summary of relations between the Kennedy administration and South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem

Making Matters Worse in Afghanistan

Civilian deaths inflicted by American firepower in Afghanistan are generating deep-seated anti-Americanism, with some Afghans saying that even the Russians were less violent, argues Charles Pe?a.

The Death of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution

Victor Yanukovich’s inauguration in March as the new President of Ukraine marked the death of the “Orange Revolution.” To the Obama administration’s consternation, Ukraine has gone red.

Jordan’s MB urges government to decline NATO’S request.

The Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood movement on Tuesday called on the government to reject a request by the NATO alliance to prepare the Afghan army.

The terrorism conundrum

In the wake of 9/11, almost anything the US government did was accepted uncritically by the public. The Patriot Act was quickly passed, abridging the freedoms that Americans had enjoyed

Talking to the Taliban

The new Afghan strategy marks a fresh start but great obstacles to a peaceful settlement - and no doubt a lot more fighting - still lie ahead, says Patrick Seale.

Obama’s Secret Prisons

This process has become even more feared and hated in Afghanistan than coalition airstrikes. The night raids and detentions, little known or understood outside of these Pashtun villages, are slowly

Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning

The US President and other misguided Democrats are hell bent on preventing the bemedaled Petraeus, a likely Republican candidate for President in 2012, from painting them soft on terrorism. Letting

Howard Zinn’s ‘War on Terror’ Critique

The historian pointed out that even if the US experienced few battle casualties in its invasion of Iraq, casualties would mount afterwards in the occupying army from sickness and trauma.

MB’s statement on the construction of the steel wall between Egypt and Gaza

Muslim Brotherhood’s statement on the construction of the steel wall between Egypt and Gazaand prevention of life-line convoy from reaching Gaza