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    • Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
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      Obama's awkward response to a college student's question at a town hall-style meeting about human rights abuses by the top two recipient governments of U.S. security assistance -- Israel and Egypt -- says much about his foreign policy priorities.
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    • Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
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      The foreign policy segments of Obama's State of the Union address were striking both in terms of their brevity and his failure to link the economic problems at home with imperial overreach abroad. While an improvement over the neoconservative ori...
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    • Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
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      As it has in the past, the United States appears to be focusing on a military solution to complex social, political and economic problems. The result may be to exacerbate the very problem of extremism the Obama administration hopes to suppress.
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    • Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009
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      A reply to David Peterson's defamatory attacks against me in his June 30 blog.
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    • Friday, Jun 19, 2009
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      The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an...
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    • Monday, Jun 15, 2009
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      If it is true that Ahmadinejad's victory is fraudulent, it'll be a dream come true for those pushing a more confrontational approach with Iran.
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    • Thursday, Jun 11, 2009
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      President Barack Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. With the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically rejec...
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    • Friday, Mar 06, 2009
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      In the wake of Israel's massive assault on heavily populated civilian areas of the Gaza Strip earlier this year, Amnesty International called for the United States to suspend military aid to Israel on human rights grounds. Amnesty has also called ...
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    • Friday, Feb 20, 2009
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      One of the first difficult foreign policy decisions of the Obama administration will be what the United States should do about Afghanistan. Escalating the war, as National Security Advisor Jim Jones has been encouraging, will likely make matters w...
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    • Sunday, Feb 15, 2009
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      Over the objections of church groups, peace organizations and human rights activists, President Barack Obama decided to return to Illinois to visit the headquarters of the Caterpillar company, which for years has violated international law, U.S. l...
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    • Sunday, Jan 04, 2009
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      No one in the mainstream media or government is willing to acknowledge America's sordid role interfering in Palestinian politics.
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    • Thursday, Nov 06, 2008
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      Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hope, believing that -- as a child of the Eisenhower era -- I will soon be witnessing the most progressive presidential administration...
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    • Saturday, Nov 01, 2008
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      The smear campaign by John McCain, Sarah Palin and their supporters reached a new low this past week with their attacks on Democratic nominee Barack Obama for his former ties with Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi. This is just one of a ...
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    • Saturday, Oct 11, 2008
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      Aminatou Haidar, a nonviolent activist from Western Sahara and a key leader in her nation's struggle against the 33-year-old U.S.-backed Moroccan occupation of her country, won this year's Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
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    • Saturday, Sep 20, 2008
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      Background to recent events in Bolivia.
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    • Tuesday, Aug 19, 2008
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      the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis.
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    • Monday, Jul 07, 2008
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      The Bush administration has justifiably criticized the Zimbabwean regime of liberator-turned-dictator Robert Mugabe. It has joined a unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning the campaign of violence unleashed upon pro-democracy activist...
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    • Saturday, Jun 07, 2008
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      Barack Obama has won the race for the Democratic nomination for president against Hillary Clinton on the issues. Sort of...
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    • Sunday, Apr 27, 2008
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      In his 2005 inaugural address, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would support democratic movements around the world and work to end tyranny. Furthermore, he pledged to those struggling for freedom that the United States wou...
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    • Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
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      There's little reason to hope for a breakthrough at the Middle East peace summit in Annapolis, unless there is a fundamental shift in U.S. policy in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And there's little evidence to suggest such a change ...
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    • Sunday, Feb 24, 2008
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      Stephen Gowans has written an article "Stephen Zunes and the Struggle for Overseas Profits." This is Zunes' reply.
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    • Thursday, Feb 21, 2008
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      Even among longstanding supporters of national self-determination for Kosovo, the eagerness with which the Bush administration extended diplomatic recognition immediately upon that country’s declaration of independence on February 17 has raised se...
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    • Saturday, Feb 16, 2008
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      The United States has done for the cause of democracy what the Soviet Union did for the cause of socialism. Not only has the Bush administration given democracy a bad name in much of the world, but its high-profile and highly suspect "democracy pr...
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    • Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008
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      On January 28, President George W. Bush gave the last State of the Union address of his two-term tenure. Many of his remarks centered on foreign policy. FPIF’s Stephen Zunes annotates the president’s claims and statements.
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    • Saturday, Jan 12, 2008
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      The strong showings by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois in the early contests for the Democratic presidential nomination don’t just mark a repudiation of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy and “war on terrorism.” They also indicate a rejection ...
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    • Saturday, Jul 07, 2007
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      Ironically, it was Israel which encouraged the rise of the Palestinian Islami...
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    • Monday, Jun 11, 2007
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      Jerusalem: Endorsing the Right of Conquest
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    • Monday, Mar 19, 2007
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      The failures of Iraqi democratization as advocated by the Bush administration should not be blamed primarily on the Iraqis. Nor should they be used to reinforce racist notions that Arabs or Muslims are somehow incapable of building democratic inst...
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    • Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006
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      Foaad Khosmood: Let's talk about the midterm elections. Many of the neocons and their allies were not re-elected. People like Curt Weldon and Rick Santorum were very hawkish on Iran, and had very militant rhetoric throughout their campaign. They w...
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    • Wednesday, Oct 25, 2006
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      It has become a given, even among many progressive critics of Bush administration policy, that while the U.S. war on Iraq was illegal, immoral, unnecessary, poorly executed, and contrary to America's national security interests, the war on Afghani...
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