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U.S. Middle East Policy : The Search For Security

American Institute of International Studies Seminar June 15, 2006 U.S. Middle East Policy : The Search For Security Featuring Professor Stephen Zunes Coordinator of the Peace and Justice studies University of San Fr...

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In Wake of Qana, Israel and U.S. Seen As Terrorists

THE ghastly human carnage at Qana, Lebanon, should awaken everyone to the grim reality that our nation's attachment to Israel is bad news. It entangles America in one awful mess after another: first 9/11, then Afghanis...

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Bush must show courage

WITHIN a few minutes after the start of the first presidential debate on Sept. 30, 2004, President Bush felt compelled to justify a war in Iraq. He told the audience that one of the benefits of a free Iraq is the security of Is...

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Lebanon Crisis

The new chapter of Middle East crises, started with the capturing of two Israeli forces by Hezbollah militants and later their open refusal to release them, has once again triggered humanitarian crises. Likewise the confli...

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Cost-benefit analysis of Iraq war

The Bush administration has discovered that defeating Saddam Hussain’s army was the easy part of the Iraq War. Stabilizing post-Saddam Iraq has been much harder. Looking at the future, it is not clear whether the worst is...

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Stark among those to speak on global conflicts at symposium

NEWARK - The war in Iraq. Ongoing violence in the Middle East. Conflict in Kashmir and Chechnya. A group of politicians, professors and others will meet Sunday in Newark in "War or Peace - a Symposium" to discuss thes...

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Iraq and Palestine are two sides of the same coin

Former Congressman Paul Findley says one fundamental question remains unanswered, why did we invade Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no threat whatever to the United States? Paul Findley, 83, was speaking at a s...

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Newark forum chides on Iraq - Stark criticizes policy on weapons sales

NEWARK - A bipartisan group of speakers at a weekend forum ripped the Bush administration for leading the country into the Iraq war and not trying to understand Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorists. The Sunday afternoon ...

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Remarks of former U.S. Rep. Paul Findley, prepared for a public symposium in San Francisco on “War or Peace?”

I am not on anyone's payroll, nor do I occupy public office. I am here because I weep for my beloved America. Our nation is in grave peril. The challenge is great, but success is attainable. I want to bestir you to help. ...

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Bipartisan Rebuke of Bush Policies

As a Democrat and a Republican who two years ago ran against each other for a seat in Congress, one wouldn't think there's much on which we agree. We've debated many issues and disagreed often, as Republicans a...

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Competing Visions for the U.N.’s Future

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed the fifth-draft of a U.S.-sponsored resolution dealing with Iraq on October 16. Faced with weekly attacks on its forces in Iraq and rising global opposition to its continuing occupat...

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The 9/11 Commission Report (An Analysis)

How did a series of coordinated attacks take place without any apparent warning on the morning of Tuesday, the 11th of September in 2001? What can be done to prevent their recurrence? To answer these vexing questions, the U.S. ...

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"America’s Secret War" by George Friedman (Book Review)

(Doubleday, 2004) Reviewed by Ahmad Faruqui George Friedman says that the US is winning the war on terror and that the war in Iraq is part of this war. Friedman is the founder of STRATFOR, a firm that describes itself as...

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Symposium on Peace and Harmony in South Asia

The International Association for Human Values (IAHV), held a symposium, on April 18, 2004 on peace and harmony in South Asia at the Smith Center in Ohlone College, Fremont, California. The objective of the symposium was to fac...

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The Paradox of the 21st Century

[First published in 2004] In a presidential election year, everything generates controversy, and the state of the economic recovery is no exception. The economy grew at 4 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. Is 4 pe...

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