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Should the EU subsidise Israeli security?
Ben Hayes

The inclusion of Israel in the European Security Research Programme undermines the EU's commitment to even-handedness in the Middle East.

Reflections of routine air travel
Saul Landau

Few commentators dare link poverty and corruption to extremism in Muslim countries.

Reciprocity!
Saul Landau

The CIA has backed some 600 documented attempts against Castro, while there have been no Havana-backed plots against U.S. Presidents. Should Cuba put Washington on its terrorist list? Long Live Reciprocity!

Israeli construction in East Jerusalem threatens renewed peace talks
Phyllis Bennis

Vice President Joe Biden is in the Middle East this week to promote restarting of the stalled peace talks, but the talks will not lead to anything unless the starting point is equality.

War on Maoists
Praful Bidwai

The Indian government must at once stop the military operation against its own citizens in the tribal heartland and open unconditional talks with the Maoists.

The Statistics Bazaar
Ricardo Vargas

The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

Department of Defense, Inc.
Saul Landau
 Nelson Valdes

Instead of Pentagon fighting healtcare for the lion's share of US budget, introducing a National Defense Medicare bill, lodged inside the Pentagon budget, would assume health care as just one more task in the unending challenge of defending our besieged nation.

Israel as a rogue state
Praful Bidwai

Israel's practice of illegal assasinations, such as the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhough in Dubai, is in line with its ruthless policy of consolidating its occupation, expanding illegal settlements, and tightening its economic hold over Palestinians — in defiance of Security Council resolutions...

The Pentagon: Gargantua’s mouth
Saul Landau
 Nelson P. Valdés

With no real military dangers threathening the US, the Pentagon has to invent them to justify its multi-billion dollar budget. And the bill is presented to the taxpayers.

Ending the US War in Afghanistan
Phyllis Bennis

The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it,  that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and withdraw the troops.

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