Thin Evidence from War Logs of Iranian Backing of Iraqi Militias
Despite the headlines, there is very little new information reported, and the evidence for the claims made is thin.
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Newly Disclosed Documents Shed More Light on Early Taliban Offers, Pakistan Role
U.S. government documents shed some additional light on repeated Taliban offers to hand over Osama bin Laden.
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Turning Back From the Point of No Return
Any attack on Iran would have dire consequences and enormously destabilize the Middle East.
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New York Times Spins UN Report on Gaza Suffering
According to Bronner’s formula, it is not a fact that Israel is prohibited under international law from engaging in attacks on and collective punishment of civilians, but merely an argument – as though this were somehow debatable.
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Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq
Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is “A truly historic end to...
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On Refusing Apology for the Nuking of Civilians
Japan on Friday marked the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima. U.S....
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Criticism of Chomsky: Asset or Liability?
Tirades against Noam Chomsky never cease to amaze me. And I’m not talking about the kind of...
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There Is No Two-State Solution
The two-state solution is dead. There is no longer any hope for peace or justice in this solution, if there ever was to begin with.
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Yes, Jews Killed Jesus, Too—The Bible Told Me So
There is a considerable manufactured controversy regarding the assertion that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Yeshua the Messiah (a.k.a. Jesus the Christ). According to this narrative, anyone who suggests Jews had a role is implicitly an anti-Semite, and with comparisons to the Nazis and invocation of the Holocaust are seemingly obligatory in such arguments.
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The Illegality of Israel’s Naval Blockade of Gaza
In “The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of Gaza” at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ruth Lapidoth argues that Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, in which nine Turkish peace activists were killed by Israeli commandos, was perfectly “legal”.
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