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The End of (Military) History? by Andrew Bacevich

“In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history.” This sentiment, introducing the essay that made Francis Fukuyama a household name, commands renewed attention today, albeit from a different perspective.
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Middle East Update - July 29, 2010 / Breaking News: Arab League backs Abbas & direct talks

July 29, 2010 / Breaking News: Arab League backs Abbas & direct negotiations with Israel. (See: Israel-Palestine below.)

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Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks, now one of the most powerful private news organizations in the world. Providing a channel for whistleblowers has opened a new era in journalism. US Senators Feingold & Webb are calling on the Senate to assert its authority to advise and consent to extended US occupation in Afghanistan. In Germany, the SPD has threatened to destabilize the government if the war criminals exposed by Wikileaks are not brought to justice. There have been political repercussions throughout the NATO coalition triggered by the Wikileaks release of over 90,000 'Secret' US Army documents.

Afghanistan

Wikileaks Afghanistan documents ignite debate in Germany that could splinter the ruling coalition

Senators Feingold & Webb: Senate must advise and consent to US role in Afghanistan rather permit an open-ended US occupation of the nation

New York Times: Wikileaks release of 92,000 documents will make it much more difficult to create political support for the war in Afghanistan

Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths--Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the Americans' rules of engagement

Der Spiegel: Wikileaks release of documents paint a much more gloomy picture of war in Afghanistan

Der Spiegel: Unreliable Predator & Reaper Drones -- 47 drones have crashed costing US taxpayers $250 million -- US Department of Defense accident reports show that system failures, computer glitches and human errors are common occurrences during drone missions

The Fog of War engulfs US and NATO forces in Afghanistan as the low level of technology used by insurgents dismays, confuses and defeats the modern technologique of war -- drones disappointingly ineffective against low-tech enemy

Massive leak of classified documents will reshape public perception of chaotic war in Afghanistan - hundreds of civilians killed as 'black' ops assassinate Taliban

US & UK exit strategy is under way, but cannot look like failure

Iran

Iran: U.S. will likely attack 2 Mideast countries within 3 months

Turkey can stop Iran getting nuclear bomb, says Cameron

Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, visited Saudi Arabia for talks on Iran

Republicans plot Israel versus Iran Apocalypse & Collapse of US economy

Republicans in Congress back resolution for Israeli war against Iran

Tarpley: Obama prepares to bomb Iran

Brazil & Turkey urge acceptance of nuclear swap deal with Iran

Turkey joins Brazil and Iran to work out nuclear swap deal as Iran announces plan to build fusion reactor that would be a world first

Iraq--Prime Minister Maliki: "The Iraqi government is interested in developing relations with Iran in all areas, especially economic and trade ones."

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Breaking News: Meeting in Cairo - the Arab League backs Abbas and direct talks with the Israeli government. Abbas insists on a letter from Netanyahu accepting previous negotiations on borders and the construction freeze. For the latest news on this development and the background, see links below.

Israel-Palestine

Abbas to Arab League: 'I will go immediately to direct talks when I get written assurance from Netanyahu about borders and construction freeze.'

US pressure "bears fruit" -- Arab League backs Abbas and direct negotiations

Netanyahu: 'My fragile coalition will fall if the settlement freeze is extended'

Abbas will resign if Israel will not extend settlement freeze and agree to 1967 borders

President of Israel, Shimon Peres, attempts to scuttle direct talks between Israel and Palestinians

Netanyahu begs King Abdullah of Jordan to intercede with Abbas as the two meet in Amman after year-long rift: Prime Minister makes unnanounced visit to Amman, seeks Jordanian pressure on PA to enter direct talks with Israel.

Israel: Palestinians have set 'impossible' conditions for direct peace talks

British Prime Minister David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza strip into a 'prison camp'

Gaza 'prison camp' comments divide British Conservatives

EU:"Israel must do more to allow goods in and out of the Gaza Strip."

France upgrades diplomatic ties with Palestinians and supports creation of viable Palestinian state by early 2012

US funds Israeli arms race to develop long range missile

Settler Rabbi arrested for inciting Israelis to "kill non-Jews"

US Report: Israeli government deliberately preventing American training of Palestinian security forces

Israeli right backs one state solution to exclude Gaza

Led by Pastor John Hagee, Christians United For Israel (CUFI) lobbies Capital Hill storming into more than 400 Congressional offices

Israel refuses UN cooperation in Gaza flotilla investigation

Israel appeals to world: Stop Aid Flotilla from Lebanon

Obama backer raises funds for new Gaza aid ship

Israelis long for a new Jewish-Arab political party

France will hold direct dialogue with Hamas

Germany refuses Israel financial backing for more submarines, warships and torpedoes

Right-wing European leaders: Merkel, Cameron and Berlusconi -- pressure Abbas

Why Israel Keeps moving right

US diaspora funds Israeli politics

US recognizes improvement in relations with Palestinians--permits flag-flying by PLO mission in Washington, DC

Israeli police licensed to kill and beat unarmed civilians without restraint

Jordan

South Korea will fund Jordanian nuclear reactor

BUSHBOMBS

This year, Neocon Republicans are focusing their political messaging on expanding and lengthening US wars in the Middle East and the demonization of Muslims in a campaign based on Islamophobia.

USA

Senators Feingold & Webb: Senate must advise and consent to US role in Afghanistan rather permit an open-ended US occupation of the nation

House Approves Money for Wars, but Rift Deepens

Oliver Stone apologizes for saying Jews control the media

Oliver Stone: 'Jewish control of the US media is preventing debate and the Israel Lobby controls US foreign policy'

Neocon Pipes urges Netanyahu to threaten nuke war in order to prod Obama to attack Iran

Republicans in New York incite hatred of Muslims and predicate their political campaigns on attacks on proposals to build an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan

Republicans plot Israel versus Iran Apocalypse & Collapse of US economy

Republicans in Congress back resolution for Israeli war against Iran

Rosemary's Baby by Uri Avnery

July 24, 2010 SINCE I witnessed the rise of the Nazis during my childhood in Germany, my nose always tickles when it smells something fascist, even when the odor is still faint.
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Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
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Ground Zero Religious Freedom by Michael Carmichael

July 21, 2010 The United States of America rightly prides herself on her constitutional tradition for the Constitution clearly and starkly defines individual freedom in the Bill of Rights.
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February 21, 2010

In yet another odd coincidence, Alan Grayson led a Congressional delegation that just happened to be in Niger at the time of the recent military coup last Thursday that deposed the legitimate elected government of the Uranium-rich nation.