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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...

Znet Article Lobe: 2005 Costliest Year for Extreme Weather

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Dec (IPS) - The world has suffered more than 200 billion dollars in economic losses as a result of weather-related natural disasters over the past year, making 2005 the costliest year on record, according to preliminary estimates relea...

Znet Article Lobe: Afghanistan 4 Years On

Znet Article, October, 08 2005 Jim Lobe
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Washington - On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the launch of U.S. military operations against the Taliban regime, Afghanistan presents a mixed picture, according to experts here. The relative stability of the government of President Hamid K...

Znet Article Lobe: Public Skeptical About Bush's Democracy Crusade

Znet Article, September, 29 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) -- The U.S. public is deeply skeptical about the priority President George W. Bush has put on promoting democracy abroad, and its experience in Iraq has made it more so, according to a detailed new survey released Thursday...

Znet Article Lobe: Asia the world's top arms importer

Znet Article, September, 07 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON -- Arms merchants from industrialized nations are increasingly finding Asia, which has replaced the Near East as the world's top conventional-weapons market, the place to go, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Servi...

Znet Article Lobe: Iraq War Splurge Hits Home at 230 kph

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Sep 1 (IPS) - With state, local, and federal officials still grappling with the extent of the devastation and human suffering inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and points east, suggestions that the already plunging politica...

Znet Article Lobe: Democracy or Disintegration?

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (IPS) - One day after the formal presentation by a majority of Iraq's elected leaders of their proposed constitution, opinions here and in Baghdad appeared divided over whether the draft would lead to greater democracy or the vi...

Znet Article Lobe: Dating Cheney's Nuclear Drumbeat

Znet Article, August, 01 2005 Jim Lobe
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In the wake of the release of the Downing Street Memo, there has been much talk about how the Bush administration "fixed" its intelligence to create a war fever in the U.S. in the many months leading up to the invasion of Iraq. What still remains ...

Znet Article Lobe: Civil War Spectre Spurs New Iraq Exit Plans

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Jul (IPS) - Growing pessimism about averting civil war in Iraq, as well as mounting concerns that the U.S. military presence there may itself be fuelling the insurgency and Islamist extremism worldwide, has spurred a spate of new calls...

Znet Article Lobe: Iraq News Is Bleak, Even for Pentagon's 'Early Bird'

Znet Article, June, 17 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, Jun (IPS) - Readers of the Pentagon's 'Early Bird' news file, a daily compilation of around 50 stories circulated throughout the U.S. national-security bureaucracy, could be forgiven Monday for reaching for the Rolaids, a popular over-...

Znet Article Lobe: Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment, Says U.S. Amnesty Chief

Znet Article, May, 27 2005 Jim Lobe
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WASHINGTON, May (IPS) - If the administration of President George W. Bush fails to conduct a truly independent investigation of U.S. abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, foreign governments should investigate and prosecute those senior ...

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