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Obama’s Weak Report Card on the CIA

While he has been successful in addressing the CIA's renditions, detentions and interrogations programs,

Obama Pleases the Neocons

Because of the Iraq calamity, other elements of the neocon vision of remaking the Middle East were put on hold.

The Palestinians Should Negotiate

No objective observer can claim that Netanyahu’s partial freeze is anything but a cynical manoeuvre.

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.

Fort Hood and Swiss Minarets: The Existential Problem of Scorpions in a Bottle

Tom Friedman is quite right in his New York Times op-ed piece of November 29th where he exclaims to Muslims: “Whenever something like Fort Hood happens you say, ‘This is

Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks May Sink Obama’s Middle East Strategy

President Obama’s failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks has severely diminished his administration’s hopes of achieving a Two-State Solution. Persuading Israel and the Palestinians to reach an accord lay at

An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore

Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the

Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are

Obama’s Nuclear Spring

"The Guardian" -- The talk in Israel, explicit and open – including in the country's leading daily, Haaretz, last week – is about a war in the coming spring or

Middle East Democracy Promotion

Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has released a new policy brief entitled, “Middle East Democracy Promotion Is Not a One-way Street.”