Michael B. Laskoff, 12.05.2009
"...content against obedience..." ––W.S.
I was raised Jewish, but that doesn't mean that I don't know a Christmas wish list when I see one. So when the IAEA issued its rebuke to Iran, I was n...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 12.04.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
A New Strategy for Afghanistan
SI Analysis: US President Obama announces a new strategy for Afghanistan t...
Sam Black, 12.04.2009
Research Associate at the Stimson Center
The former head of the international nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, has left his successor, Yukiya Amano of Japan, with an underfunded and politically charged agency.
Hadi Ghaemi, 12.04.2009
Much of the international public and media consider mass protests in Iran to have ended, because images of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators no l...
Reporters Uncensored, 12.03.2009
A new Web destination, TV model and online community
My show Reporters Uncensored (RUTV) wants out. Out of the stifling frame that limits what stories get told by the major news organizations. Each week...
Touraj Daryaee, 12.03.2009
Associate Director, Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine
A bombing in Jerusalem. A troubled foreign country tried in absentia in U.S. courts. Priceless archeological artifacts threatened. It sounds like it c...
Richard W. Parker, 12.02.2009
Founder and Executive Director, American Foreign Policy Project
The Iran talks don't need hot heads, moralistic rhetoric and ominous reminders that we're "running out of time." What is needed is leaders with the pragmatism and vision to know a workable deal when they see it
Leon T. Hadar, 11.30.2009
Journalist and foreign affairs analyst
Even a Roosevelt, a Kennedy or Reagan would have to deal with the reality that is facing Obama, in which domestic resistance and rising global challenges make it difficult for Washington to secure its military and economic hegemony.
James Zogby, 11.30.2009
Founder and president of the Arab American Institute
it is important to acknowledge that when Obama won the election last November he was not handed a magic wand. Instead, he was handed the shovel his predecessor had used to dig deep holes in many parts of the world.
Amnesty International, 12.01.2009
Defending Human Rights Worldwide
Iran | Posted by: Elise Auerbach , November 25, 2009 at 1:04 PM
When the father of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani was contacted by Iranian authorities, tell...
Jose Antonio Vargas, 11.30.2009
Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post
Of course Twitter is the most popular English word of 2009. In a world made smaller by the Internet and new technologies, Twitter forces us to become each other's witnesses, one tweet at a time.
Raymond J. Learsy, 11.29.2009
Scholar and author, "Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future"
In response to Iran's defiance of the International Nuclear Agency to desist nuclear development and open its nuclear facilities to inspection, the U.N took a fateful vote. The game changer was that Russia and China joined the U.S. in the majority.
Chris Dalby, 11.29.2009
Chris Dalby is an international politics journalist based in Rio de Janeiro.
I will make a rather bold proposition. President Obama understands how to work with the Chinese government better than any recent US President.
Faci...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.27.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
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Massacre in Mindanao
SI Analysis: At least 57 people were brutally killed as a result of a longstanding p...
Sharmine Narwani, 11.27.2009
Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University
If Iran announced a complete halt of its uranium enrichment program and ordered an immediate dismantling of its nuclear facilities ... we would still not cut the Islamic Republic any slack.
Daniel Wagner, 11.27.2009
The impact of Iran's economic plight on the nuclear negotiation process is likely to be severe. As the government reckons with its unfolding economic reality, its inclination will be to reject any meaningful nuclear oversight.
Georgianne Nienaber, 11.27.2009
Investigative journalist, searcher, and author
From New York to Singapore, hundreds of major news organizations, including the New York Times, the BBC, the Associated Press, Reuters, and the Voice ...
Steve Clemons, 11.26.2009
Publisher of "The Washington Note"
Of all things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving -- I'm thankful that challenging the government's course and trying to put better ideas on the table are unabashedly patriotic again.
Richard Grenell, 11.26.2009
Syria must join with other Arab nations in the effort to isolate Iran. For too long, it has served as a destabilizing force in the region.
Betwa Sharma, 11.23.2009
Betwa is the NY/UN correspondent for the Press Trust of India.
Since Shiites have no restriction on single women going for the Hajj, A Hajj first timer, Saju, is less than pleased to know that Saudi Arabia requires all women pilgrims below the age of 45 to be accompanied by a male relative.
Omid Memarian, 11.23.2009
Award Winning Journalist, writes for the IPS News Agency
Imagine you've spent millions of dollars to articulate and orchestrate a message and then a 20-year-old protester shoots a 1-minute video, uploads it onto YouTube and destroys your whole story. What would you do?