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POLITICS-US: Obama "Appalled" by Iran Repression

POLITICS-US: By Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (IPS) - Facing a growing chorus of Republican criticism to speak out more forcefully on Irans disputed election results, the U.S. president made his harshest statement yet ...

From KHODY AKHAVI AND ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Mark Kirk,  U.S. Congress

US-MIDEAST: Parsing Netanyahu’s Palestinian State

US-MIDEAST: WASHINGTON, Jun 17 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out his terms for peace in the Middle East. In a highly anticipated speech at Israels Bar-Ilan University last Sunday, Netanyahu said for the first ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, Inter Press Service,  17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Benjamin Netanyahu,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  White House,  Daniel Levy

POLITICS: Lebanon’s Election: An International Affair

POLITICS: WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - It was touted as an historic election, a vote to determine the future direction of Lebanon. But even with the winners declared, analysts say the Jun. 7 ballot was far from decisive, and did little to ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, Inter Press Service,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Barack Obama,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Saad Hariri,  Michel Aoun

Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback

It was neoconservative pundit Charles Krauthammer who, in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, inaugurated Washington's unipolar moment. "America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, AntiWar.com,  16 Jul 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Charles Krauthammer,  Abraham Lincoln,  Brent Scowcroft,  Noam Chomsky

BOOKS-US: Blogging Brobdingnagian Blowback

BOOKS-US: WASHINGTON, Jul 15 (IPS) - It was neoconservative pundit Charles Krauthammer who, in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, inaugurated Washington's unipolar moment. "America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, Inter Press Service,  15 Jul 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Charles Krauthammer,  Abraham Lincoln,  Brent Scowcroft,  Noam Chomsky

POLITICS: Poll Backs Greater U.N. Role in Mideast Peace

POLITICS: By Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jul 1 (IPS) - A majority of global publics say their governments should "not take either side" in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, instead supporting a call for the United Nations to ...

From KHODY AKHAVI AND ALI GHARIB, Inter Press Service,  1 Jul 2008
Related Topics: U N Security Council,  United Nations,  Shibley Telhami,  Brookings Institution

POLITICS: U.S. and China Go Bump in the Middle East

POLITICS: WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) - For China these days it seems that nothing -- not rising energy prices; not sanctions aimed at its more unsavoury business partners, Burma and Sudan; not even the prospect of a nuclear Iran -- can curb ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, Inter Press Service,  26 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Richard Nixon,  Robert Zoellick,  U N Security Council,  European Union

Respite on the Road to Nowhere?

An informal truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect early Thursday morning, temporarily suspending a year of fighting that has left more than 600 Palestinians many of them civilians and 18 Israelis dead. The guns fell silent at 6 a.m. amid ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, AntiWar.com,  21 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Hamas,  George W. Bush,  Daniel Levy,  Aaron Miller,  White House

US/MIDEAST: Respite on the Road to Nowhere?

US/MIDEAST: WASHINGTON, Jun 20 (IPS) - An informal truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect early Thursday morning, temporarily suspending a year of fighting that has left more than 600 Palestinians -- many of them civilians -- and 1 ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, Inter Press Service,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Hamas,  George W. Bush,  Daniel Levy,  Aaron Miller,  White House

Rice Midwifes Lebanon's Latest 'Birth Pangs'

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Beirut Monday to pledge her support for an agreement giving greater political power to Hezbollah, the militant Shi'ite group that Washington still considers a terrorist organization. The ...

From KHODY AKHAVI, AntiWar.com,  18 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Condoleezza Rice,  Fouad Siniora,  Rafik Hariri,  Hamas

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