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Znet Article Lobe: Israeli Licence to Cheney-Linked Energy Firm on Golan Heights Raises Eyebrows

Znet Article, March, 12 2013 Jim Lobe
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Israel has reportedly granted a U.S. energy firm with heavyweight political connections to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights

Znet Article Lobe: U.S. Urged to Increase Bomb-Clearing Aid for Laos

Znet Article, July, 12 2012 Jim Lobe
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Disarmament activists and former U.S. ambassadors are urging Secretary of State Clinton to increase U.S. aid to Laos to clear millions of tons of unexploded ordinance

Znet Article Lobe: Growing Elite Opposition to Military Option Against Iran

Znet Article, January, 31 2012 Jim Lobe
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A confluence of developments provoked a number of influential members of the foreign policy establishment to warn against any further escalation either by the U.S. or Israel

Znet Article Lobe: U.S. Hawks Behind Iraq War Rally for Strikes Against Iran

Znet Article, October, 21 2011 Jim Lobe
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Key neo-conservatives and other right-wing hawks who championed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq are calling for military strikes against Iran

Znet Article Lobe: Politics Throws Palestine Under the Bus

Znet Article, September, 28 2011 Jim Lobe
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Obama said nothing to which even the most right-wing faction of Netanyahu's government could object

Znet Article Lobe: Republican Lawmakers Tell the World Where to Go

Znet Article, July, 25 2011 Jim Lobe
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Republican members of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee are on a tear

Znet Article Lobe: Obama Advised to Forgo More Threats to Iran

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Jim Lobe
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A strategy of threats and "provocations" against Iran by the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama is likely to be counter-productive, according to a new report released here Friday by a group of 20 former top U.S. diplomats and ...

Znet Article Lobe: Hawks Resurgent?

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Jim Lobe
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Are the latest accusations and tough language leveled against Iran, Syria, and North Korea evidence of a resurgence by the remaining hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush hoping for a final confrontation against one or more membe...

Znet Article Lobe: Pakistanis see US as greatest threat

Znet Article, January, 10 2008 Jim Lobe
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Washington - Amid reports that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is considering aggressive covert actions against armed Islamist forces in western Pakistan, a new survey released here Monday suggested that such an effort would be...

Znet Article Lobe: A Bad Year for Empire

Znet Article, December, 28 2006 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON (IPS) - For those who believed that the precise and overwhelming demonstration of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq would "shock and awe" the rest of the world -- and particularly Washington's foes and aspiring rivals -- into ...

Znet Article Lobe: Survey: US Losing Arab Allies' Hearts and Minds

Znet Article, December, 16 2006 Jim Lobe
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Attitudes toward the United States reached new lows through most of the Arab world over the past year, a...

Znet Article Lobe: U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change in North Korea

Znet Article, October, 19 2006 Jim Lobe
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U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change in North Korea

Znet Article Lobe: "Strategic Consensus" Redux?

Znet Article, October, 10 2006 Jim Lobe
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Washington - President George W. Bush and his peripatetic secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, may believe that they have broken with 60 years of U.S. policy in order to "transform" the Middle East, but to long-time regional observers, their la...

Znet Article Lobe: Poll Finds Waning Faith in Intervention

Znet Article, September, 09 2006 Jim Lobe
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Five years after 9/11, the U.S. public is considerably less enthusiastic about projecting military power abroad, according to a major new survey, the first of a spate of polls that are likely to released in the run-up to Monday's fifth anniversary...

Znet Article Lobe: 'New Middle East' Out Of Control

Znet Article, August, 13 2006 Jim Lobe
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Alarms are definitely on the rise here. And it's not just because the British police arrested21 people who were allegedly plotting to bomb up to 10 jetliners between London and the United States in mid- flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Although th...

Znet Article Lobe: Darfur Grim & Grimmer

Znet Article, May, 28 2006 Jim Lobe
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Despite a recent peace accord, a new U.N. Security Council resolution, and agreement by Sudan to permit a U.N. assessment team to travel to Darfur to determine how to strengthen peacekeeping forces there, the situation in the region, as well as in...

Znet Article Lobe: Yellow Journalism And Chicken Hawks

Znet Article, May, 25 2006 Jim Lobe
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Washington - A story authored by a prominent US neo-conservative regarding new legislation in Iran allegedly requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive colored badges circulated around the world last weekend before it was ex...

Znet Article Lobe: The Arrogance Of Power

Znet Article, April, 09 2006 Jim Lobe
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One of the great privileges of power is the right to attack others for doing --- or allegedly doing (see below) ---  exactly what you do without anybody who matters calling you on your hypocrisy. Think of the affluent white Americans who criticiz...

Znet Article Lobe: Anti-Imperialists Beware - Bush Is Reading Again

Znet Article, December, 30 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Dec (IPS) - The Reader-in-Chief is at it again, and anti-imperialists around the world have reason to be concerned. According to the White House, U.S. President George W. Bush has taken two books with him to Texas for his holiday rea...

Znet Article Lobe: Iraqis Spoke, But Not in Unison

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (IPS) - The strong turnout in last week's parliamentary elections in Iraq may have been just the kind of civic demonstration that U.S. Pres. George W. Bush needed to restore some confidence in a weary public that Washington's ad...

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