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The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
In the neighboring country of Yemen, a very real opportunity to make good on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's promise of friendship is rapidly emerging for Iran.
William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.
If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.
I'm hitting the homestretch on Toronto. Six films in the last two days I'm here. Have I made it clear that you don't always know what you think about a film on a first viewing?
Motalakat is an online radio station launched by Mahasen Saber, a thirty-something Egyptian divorcée and mother for other Egyptian women.
Jumblatt's statements to Press TV marks the most recent in a series of disclosures by the maverick politician that has shaken electoral politics in Lebanon.
El-Baz plans to highlight the issues of sustainable development and self-preservation at the Arab Environment 2009 conference in Beirut, Lebanon this November
In submitting a cabinet without the approval of his opposition, Lebanese PM-in-waiting Saad Hariri is risking his political future.
The shift in allegiances of Lebanon's chameleon-like Druze leader has sent tremors through the country's political system.
The sixth Sa'ada war between central government forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen's north is well underway and expected to drag on, according to the country's ruling party.
Yemen has mounted a tight security plan for the holy Moslem month of Ramadan starting this week in a bid to thwart any new terrorist attacks, the Yemen Times reported.
There is talk of "war shopping", of people storing up supplies in case growing Israeli rhetoric towards Lebanon becomes a reality.
Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.
Now is the time for the administration to send a clear signaling to Iran that, in a measured and limited way, they no longer object to business dealings in sectors that carry no military or nuclear energy risks.
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