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President Barack Obama speaks about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Barack Obama: We’re in Libya to prevent a massacre

Alex Pareene
The president explained, as best he could, why we're there, but couldn't quite explain how we'll know when to go
Ear in the hole of a paper (Igor Kovalchuk)

Foxes and Internet henhouses

Glenn Greenwald
. . . but what about the U.S.?
FILE - This Friday, May 4, 2007 picture shows former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro during a news conference before a fundraising lunch hosted by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., in Chicago. The first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket has died. Geraldine Ferraro was 75. A family friend said Ferraro, who was diagnosed with blood cancer in 1998, died Saturday, March 26, 2011 at Massachusetts General Hospital. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (AP)

The fate that Geraldine Ferraro didn’t deserve

Steve Kornacki
She broke a gender barrier in 1984 -- and she was rewarded with one indignity after another
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Right: supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi listen to his speech at a demonstration in Tehran on Thursday June, 18, 2009.

Hillary Clinton’s crucial choice on Iran

Mohsen Kadivar, Ahmad Sadri
The State Department faces a crucial decision that could make or break the nation's democratic movement
Syrians anti and pro-Assad protesters clash after Friday prayers outside the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Friday, March 25, 2011. Thousands of Syrians took to the streets Friday demanding reforms and mourning dozens of protesters who were killed during a violent, week long crackdown that has brought extraordinary pressure on the country's autocratic regime, activists and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman) (AP)

Violence erupts around Syria, protesters shot

Zeina Karam, Bassem Mroue
Military troops opened fire on protesters after they set fire to a statue of deceased president Hafez Assad
Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich’s next two weeks of policy statements, revealed!

Alex Pareene
After his breathtaking about-face on Libya, what will Newt Gingrich both support and not support next?
A Libyan rebel patrols the frontline of the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Monday, March 21, 2011. The international military intervention in Libya is likely to last "a while," a top French official said Monday, echoing Moammar Gadhafi's warning of a long war ahead as rebels, energized by the strikes on their opponents, said they were fighting to reclaim a city under siege from the Libyan leader's forces.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya

Glenn Greenwald
Accusing war opponents of indifference to suffering is a common, and ironic, tactic used to justify wars
Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher dies

Barry Schweid
Christopher, head of State Department during Clinton's first term, succumbed to cancer Friday night
President Barack Obama makes a statement about Japan following last week's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear concerns, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama on presidential war-making powers

Glenn Greenwald
As candidate, he insisted that presidents lack the power to enter conflicts without approval. What will he do now?
An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Taking the “war” out of air war

Tom Engelhardt
What US air power is actually doing in the War on Terror

Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy

Glenn Greenwald
A former CIA operative perfectly expresses the mindset driving the U.S. government's role in the world
Shiite Bahraini youths burn tires Wednesday, March 16, 2011, near a shopping mall in Malkiya, Bahrain as they awaited government forces they anticipated would roll into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama. They said they tried to get to Manama to join anti-government protesters under attack there but found all ways in to the capital closed. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain’s crackdown on demonstrations kills 5 protesters

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa
The American-allied government's reaction becomes increasingly violent as some citizens are shot point blank

Social networking and dissent

Patrick Smith
We grant Twitter and Facebook invaluable promotion under the pretense of being "tools of democracy." I don't get it
Thousands of anti-government protesters march Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to the Saudi embassy in Manama, Bahrain. Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency Tuesday to quell a Shiite uprising, as clashes spread through the capital and surrounding villages in a showdown that drew in the region's major powers and splintered along its main sectarian faultlines. At least two Bahrainis and a Saudi soldier died, and hundreds of protesters were injured by shotgun blasts and clubs. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain military sweeps into protest camp

Barbara Surk, Reem Khalifa
At least six are dead in military raid day after state of emergency declared
President Barack Obama speaks at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo) (AP)

Various matters: Afghanistan, Libya and Manning

Glenn Greenwald
In the news: A liberal consensus arises on Obama's detention defense, while war lessons seem never to be learned
In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Earthquake fallout: U.S. debt crisis gets a downgrade

Andrew Leonard
Catastrophe economics: World investors rush back to U.S. bonds, proving that big deficits aren't so scary after all
Flanking Uncle Sam: Charlie Sheen in "Red Dawn," left, and Tom Cruise in "Top Gun"

How the ’80s programmed us for war

David Sirota
Reagan's "morning in America" created "Red Dawn," and a Pentagon-fueled pop culture that trained the masses
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as he arrives for a meeting at Al-Zahar Palace in Manama Saturday, March 12, 2011. Gates is meeting in Bahrain with the kingdom's top rulers, who are facing growing demands for more political freedom. (AP Photo/ Mandal Ngan, pool) (AP)

The Arab lobby

Nick Turse
How the tiny kingdom of Bahrain strong-armed the President of the United States into opposing democracy
A Bahraini anti-government protester gestures in front of riot police on an overpass near Pearl roundabout Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Saudi Arabia intervenes in Bahrain protests

Brian Murphy, Reem Khalifa
Saudi Arabia sends troops into Bahrain to quell violence amidst anti-government protests
Men chant slogans and wave the Egyptian flag during a rally to support Muslims and Christians in national unity at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian January 25 uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, March 11, 2011, two days after 13 were killed and 140 wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians as the police and ruling military struggle to maintain order barely a month after a popular uprising ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) (AP)

Is Egypt the future IndoTurkeZil?

Pepe Escobar
A number of nascent democracies, both Muslim and otherwise, could provide successful templates for Arab nations
Juliette Binoche in "Certified Copy"

Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role

Andrew O'Hehir
The unpretentious star talks about Iran, France's head-scarf law and her wrenching performance in "Certified Copy"
Rep. Peter King, of New York's 3rd congressional district

U.S. lawmaker supporting terrorist group? Rep. Peter King isn’t the first

Marian Wang
Peter King has openly supported the IRA, but he's not the only government official to back a terrorist group
Egyptian pro-democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog agency and Egypt's reformist leader, talks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb.4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

ElBaradei seeks presidential office in Egypt

Sarah El Deeb
The Nobel Peace Prize winner sets conditions regarding a run for the top job in Egypt
Robert Levinson

Years after vanishing in Iran, Robert Levinson is alive

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran four years ago and was all but given up as dead
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