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We Can’t Leave Until We Kill All the People that Want Us to Leave: Yemen Edition 17 Jul 2012 | 09:52 pm
Gregory Johnsenchronicles the disturbing “drift” with respect to the Obama administration’s targeting criteria in Yemen, and the potential for an exceedingly costly, yet unproductive, escalation withi...
Letters from an Occupant: The Abbottabad Documents 17 Jul 2012 | 09:50 pm
The Obama administration – through West Point’s Combating Terror Center (CTC) – has released a handful of the documents that were seized in the raid on the Abbottabad complex where Osama bin Laden was...
Technology Sanctions 25 Apr 2012 | 07:47 am
The Obama administration has announced new sanctions on those who provide Syria and Iran with technologies of repression: “On Monday, he (President Obama) announced an executive order that allows U.S...
Not Just Islam 21 Mar 2012 | 01:10 pm
One attitude I often see is that Muslims are somehow uniquely intolerant of other religions. A Get Religion blogger named Mollie said in the context of the Saudi mufti’s call for mosque destruction: “...
Shenouda III Dies 18 Mar 2012 | 08:31 am
Pope Shenouda III of the Coptic Orthodox Church has died. Although in the years immediately following his 1971 ascension he was a politically active critic of the regime, a house arrest from 1981 unti...
Global Poverty Falls 11 Mar 2012 | 09:53 am
It came out a little while ago, but here is some great news: The best estimates for global poverty come from the World Bank’s Development Research Group, which has just updated from 2005 its figures ...
Khamene’i on the Bomb 5 Mar 2012 | 08:29 am
Juan Cole talks about Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamene’i's views on nuclear weapons: “A week and a half ago, Khamenei gave a major foreign policy speech in which he said: “‘The Iranian nation has ...
Electing the Ninth Islamic Majlis 2 Mar 2012 | 03:08 pm
Geneive Abdo reports on the eve of Iran’s parliamentary elections: “Now, just hours before the polls open on March 2, Khatami and many other Iranians for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolut...
Expulsion from Sharbat 17 Feb 2012 | 01:40 pm
The most recent prominent sectarian incident in Egypt began, as so many do, with allegations of an affair in which, given the patriarchal culture, the male is seen as dishonoring the female. Christian...
The Safe Haven Plan 12 Feb 2012 | 07:06 pm
The Economist‘s proposal for Syria shows just how powerless the international community is: “Far better to attack Mr Assad’s regime where it is vulnerable—by peeling away his support, both at home am...
