BOOKS-US: Soldiers Who Just Say No
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By Jon Letman
KAUAI, Hawaii, Aug 17 (IPS) – Six months into Barack Obama’s presidency, the U.S. public’s display of antiwar sentiment has faded to barely a whisper.
Despite Obama’s vow to withdraw all combat forces from Iraq before September 2011, he plans to leave up to 50,000 troops [...]
BOOKS-US: When Neocons Ruled Washington
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Michael Flynn
GENEVA, Dec 16 (IPS) – In the first two pages of his book on the neoconservative movement, historian Stephen Sniegoski tells us that U.S. Mideast policy during the George W. Bush presidency has been ”colossally erroneous” and ”disastrous to U.S. interests”, that the Iraq War is a [...]
POLITICS-ETHIOPIA: Disappointed But Not Defeated
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Michael Chebsi
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 20 (IPS) – She fought alongside men in the Ethiopian liberation struggle. She fought for a free and fair society. But today, Yewubmar Asfaw feels that Ethiopia’s revolution has failed to deliver a fair share of political power to women.
In her book, published this year [...]
BOOKS-US: ”A Policy of Deliberate Cruelty”
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Mark Weisenmiller
TAMPA, Florida, Sep 10 (IPS) – Perhaps the most thorough and informative book about the George W. Bush administration’s approval of the use of torture and ”extraordinary renditions” of alleged terrorists to third countries has continued to stay on [...]
BOOKS: ‘Descent Into Chaos’
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
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By Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (IPS) – News coming out of Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent months has unsettled many assumptions about the U.S. war on terror. To most casual observers of the war on terror, Afghanistan [...]
BOOKS-US: A Path Out of the Wilderness
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) – Helena Cobban’s new book, ”Re-Engage! America and the World After Bush”, is not aimed at a target audience of officials, policy wonks and Washington elite think-tank types. So much [...]
POLITICS: Is Democracy Dangerous in Multi-ethnic Society?
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Interview with Frances Stewart, Oxford University Professor of Development Economics
OXFORD, Jun 26 (IPS) – The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) would seem to have its work cut out for it in a world racked by [...]
BOOKS-IRAQ: The Fruit of a Poisonous Tree
Global News Blog / IPSThursday, June 12, 2008
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Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) – For those seeking different and deeper reasons why Iraq ended up where it is today, other than the often-cited but somewhat clichéd list of blunders like the disbanding of the Iraqi army and [...]
POLITICS-US: Swiftboating Obama on the Cheap
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
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Analysis by Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California, Sep 25 (IPS) – In 2004, the so-called Swiftboating of Sen. John Kerry’s U.S. presidential campaign changed the course of history by helping defeat the Massachusetts senator, and the tactic appeared to [...]
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