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Brave New Foundation, our partners in the Rethink Afghanistan campaign, are producing a full-length documentary laying out the reasons why we need a new policy in Afghanistan. The documentary [...]

People hoped the US would come and release them from the violence of the Taliban but all the US does is attack us… The US only blames the Taliban, but the US has the technology. They should [...]

Last night in his quasi-State of the Union speech, President Obama hinted that he would soon provide a “new way forward in Iraq that leaves Iraq to its people and responsibly ends this [...]

Following up on my earlier post, Robert Dreyfuss offers this amusing exchange between reporters and State Department spokesperson Robert Wood about Ross' responsibilities and why they are [...]

The State Department announced late yesterday that Dennis Ross will serve as the “Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Gulf and Southwest Asia.”  According to the State Department’s [...]

Via the National Iranian American Council’s niacINsight blog, Bloggingheads offers a debate about whether sanctions would be effective in stopping Iran’s nuclear program: As we’ve pointed out [...]

Robert Dreyfuss over at The Nation offers some good perspective on the release of a new IAEA report on Iran: The headlines are scary. "Iran ready to build nuclear weapon, analysts say," [...]

This week, President Obama announced that he will send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan. While Obama is correct that we need to focus more attention on the situation in Afghanistan, his [...]

Local citizens fill out questionnaires in Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of ABC News. ABC News, BBC and ARD have just published poll results showing a dramatic decrease in Afghans’ support for US [...]

United Against a Nuclear Iran thinks this is what’s going on in your brain if you buy Nestle chocolate. United Against a Nuclear Iran is at it again with another bizarre holiday campaign.  [...]