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‘Neocon-ing’ Obama

Over the past year, influential neocon columnists were bashing Obama for putting renewed pressure on Israel for a peace deal. The neocons have blunted any serious Obama pressure on Israel

People of the decade: From Osama to Obama

Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama are the two men who are the symbolic bookends of the 2000s: bin Laden, the man who masterminded the attacks on the World Trade

Accountability for War Crimes is Imperative

President Barack Obama recently visited Dover Air Force Base where he was photographed with the flag-draped coffins of soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why did Obama do

America is not a Democracy

America is not a democracy, nor was it intended to be.

Egyptian Government Releases New Public Opinion Poll

Cairo: A report issued by the Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet (a government think tank) showed that 53% of Israelis oppose the removal of all Israeli

Report: Joint American-Palestinian torture of prisoners

The Guardian newspaper accused the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Palestinian Security officers of torturing members of Hamas in the West Bank.

Obama & the U.S.–Turkey Foreign Policy Standoff

Under Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s leadership, Turkey’s three dimensional “Strategic Depth” foreign policy doctrine has emerged as the blueprint to reposition Turkey as a regional power. Sharing borders with Syria,

The Peace Laureate

President Obama delivered an exceptionally well-reasonsed and appropriately humble address accepting a Nobel Prize for Peace, writes John Nichols.

The Nine Surges of Obama’s War

How to Escalate in Afghanistan: the American ability to mount a sustained operation of this size in one of the most difficult places on the planet,

Obama’s Iranian Discontent

Barack Obama brought hope for diplomacy between the United States and Iran after 30 years of enmity.