White House v. Fox News: a War Obama Can Win!
The jousting between the White House and Fox News is drawing grave warnings from pundits to Obama’s team that this is a losing issue for their man. They quote the old tag, “Never pick a fight with people who buy...
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Israel loses UN vote on Gaza ‘war crimes’ !
The Goldstone report calling for a war crimes investigation into Israel’s military offensive in Gaza last winter easily cleared its first UN hurdle yesterday despite intense lobbying by Israel and the US. The 25-6 vote at the UN Human Rights Council...
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The Dragon spews fire at the Elephant
The surprise element was almost completely lacking. The expectation in Delhi for a while has been that sooner or later Beijing would hit out. Verbal affronts from India were becoming a daily occurrence and a nuisance for Being. Not a...
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The Italian Job!
War, said Clausewitz, is the continuation of politics by other means. The Times reported this week on a distinctive political strategy adopted by Italy in the war in Afghanistan. Italian intelligence officers have paid money, amounting to tens of thousands...
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Nobel Prize For War and Peace !
I suppose we should not begrudge Barack Obama his Nobel Peace Prize, though it represents a radical break in tradition, since he’s only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties, most concretely through...
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Pakistan warns India to ‘back off’
The Indian embassy in Kabul has been targeted for bomb attack for a second time in the past 15 months. A least 17 people were killed in Thursday’s attack, when a car loaded with explosives rammed into the embassy’s compound...
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US Afghanistan commander requested as many as 60,000 more soldiers!
The top-end request for an increase in US troop levels presented to President Barack Obama by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, is substantially larger than the 40,000 previously reported, according to anonymous government sources. McChrystal has presented...
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Gaza report seals Abbas’ political fate
A United Nations report commission, created after the 2008-2009 Gaza War, has released a thundering report that has ripped through the Palestinian and Arab street, threatening to bring down Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and his entire cabinet. Mandated to lead...
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Kenya drought ‘has spared no one’
In Takaba town in north east Kenya, a crowd of people gather around a camel. The so-called ship of the desert has been weakened by drought and can barely move. When this happens, it takes an entire village to put...
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Will Obama Cave to McChrystal?
President Obama didn’t make encouraging noises on Afghanistan yesterday, at least not if you’re looking for the president to reverse course and step out of the quagmire. In his meeting with members of Congress, including the ever-impatient John McCain, the...
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