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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
President Barack Obama speaks during a bi-partisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

“Moammar Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead and he must leave”

Bradley Klapper
In a press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Obama denounced the Libyan president
BP PLC's CEO Bob Dudley during a results media conference at their headquarters in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. BP announced Tuesday it is resuming dividend payouts for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, despite suffering its first full-year loss since 1992, and plans to sell off almost half of its U.S. refinery business. BP said a stronger-than-expected end to 2010, in which high oil prices lifted fourth quarter profit by 30 percent, was not enough to avoid a full-year loss of $3.7 billion. It raised to $40.9 billion its estimate for the overall cost of the spill, the charge covering the cost of the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers in April, as well as plugging the well and cleaning up the southern U.S. coast. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) (AP)

The collapse of the old oil order

Michael T. Klare
As protesters oust Middle Eastern dictators, the age of cheap and readily available petroleum will come to an end
Anti-Gadhafi protestors Kadija Sherif, right, and Hana Benghalbon, background, take part in a demonstration at the Libyan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (AP)

Realistic options for ousting Gadhafi look limited

Matthew Lee, Robert Burns
Little short of U.S. military intervention seems likely to force Gadhafi from power in the short term.
CORRECTS TO REMOVE EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION FROM CAPTION FIELD Omani nationals watch smoke rise from Lulu hypermarket in Sohar, Oman, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. Omani security forces have blocked roads to Sohar, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Muscat, after deadly clashes between pro-democracy protesters and riot police. (AP Photo) (AP)

Oman deploys army units fearing more chaos

Saeed El-nahdy
After three days of violent anti-government protests, Omani troops prepare for escalating unrest
Iraqi police arrest a protester during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) (AP)

U.S. silent as Iraqi regime cracks down

Justin Elliott
The U.S.-backed al-Maliki government imprisoned intellectuals and used live ammunition on protesters
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, and President Barack Obama get in position for a group photo at the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Friday, July 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

U.S. continues Bush policy of opposing ICC prosecutions

Glenn Greenwald
A strange clause in the U.N. resolution condemning Libya is there because the U.S. demanded it
Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy magazine and The Washington Post, along with fellow FP editors Joshua Keating and Blake Hounshell all rushed to discredit Seymour Hersh and the contents of his January 17, 2011 speech.

Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed

Matthew Phelan
A venerable publication launches a ridicule campaign against one of America's top investigative journalists
Protesters pull down a concrete wall in Baghdad during Iraq's "Day of Rage."

The latest on crackdowns in the Mideast and U.S. responses

Marian Wang
As protests and crackdowns ripple throughout the Arab world, a look at the various U.S. reactions to each country
James Risen appears on "Countdown with Keith Olberman" on MSNBC in 2009.

The DOJ’s creeping war on whistle-blowers

Glenn Greenwald
Federal investigators obtain the bank and phone records of a NYT journalist in order to discover his source
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech during the debate for a vote of confidence in Ahmadinejad's choice for new Foreign Minister, who is Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, during an open session of parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. Iran's lawmakers approved Ahmadinejad's choice of Salehi for foreign minister, indicating the importance that the country's nuclear program has for its international diplomacy. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (AP)

Iran hunts for uranium, finds scrutiny

George Jahn
Iran struggles to keep its progress towards nuclear capacity secret as it's forced to search for materials abroad
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks with Gen. David Petraeus NATO's top commander in Afghanistan during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden was in Afghanistan Monday for a surprise visit aimed at assessing progress in handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces, a key issue that comes against a backdrop of mounting concerns in the U.S. over the gains made in the nearly decade-long war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

All-American decline in a new world

Tom Engelhardt
5 ways Washington is oblivious to the changing realities of the Middle East
This photograph, obtained by The Associated Press outside Libya and taken by an individual not employed by AP, shows people chanting and holding signs during recent days' unrest in Benghazi, Libya. Placards in Arabic read at top left "Strike, strike until the fall of the regime", and at top right "The people want to topple the regime". (AP Photo) EDITOR'S NOTE: THE AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE EXACT CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. (AP)

Gadhafi’s forces kill hundreds during Libyan protests Sunday

Sarah El Deeb
Libyan government intensifies crackdown on protesters as security forces mow down mourners trying to bury victims
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks during the "Hot Dish Off," cooking contest in the office of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

Michele Bachmann calls U.S. tax code a “weapon of mass destruction”

Peter Finocchiaro
The Minnesota congresswoman slammed taxes, the federal reserve and the president in a South Carolina speech

Why are we so interested in Bahrain?

Adam Clark Estes
Protests stretch from Morocco to Iran. Violence rages in Libya. Why is the U.S. media so focused on Bahrain?
Hamid Karzai

U.S. sanctions target Afghan money laundering

Deb Riechmann
Karzai government's ability to win public support has been hindered by accusations of bribery and suspicious loans
Friends and relatives chant anti-government slogans during the funeral of Mahmoud Maki Abu Taki, 22, who died during clashes between Bahraini anti-government protesters and riot police on Thursday, in Sitra village, Bahrain, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

Bahrain’s army fires on protesters

Hadeel Al-shalchi
Soldiers wounded 50 in what demonstrators have begun to believe is a war against the ruling monarch
Afghan police men shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of damaged building of shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011. An explosion rocked a shopping and hotel complex on Monday, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The easy way to cut $100 billion

Tom Engelhardt
Serious about fixing our budget woes? Then it's time to defund the unwinnable disaster in Afghanistan
Protestors supporting the government and opposed to strikes demonstrate in Tunis, Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011. Tunisia's so-called "Jasmine Revolution" has sparked scattered protests and civil disobedience in the Middle East and North Africa, and much of the world is watching to see how the birth pangs of Tunisian democracy play out. Poster reads: No to the violence. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi) (AP)

Overview of Middle East crackdowns and the (varying) U.S. responses

Marian Wang
A quick and clean country-by-country guide to the protests in the Middle East, including America's responses
** ADDS BYLINE ** A relative, no name available, of 20-year-old Ali Abdul Hadi Mushaima, alledgedly killed in clashes with security forces Monday, reacts during the funeral to burial Daih, Bahrain Tuesday, Feb.15, 2011. Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain's rulers held their ground Wednesday in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital's landmark square. (AP Photo/James Lawler Duggan) (AP)

Army seizes control in Bahrain, police raid protests

Hadeel Al-shalchi
At least four are dead in the tiny but tumultuous Middle Eastern kingdom. U.S. officials strongly oppose violence

What we still don’t know about Lasik

Abby Ellin
As the surgery continues to plague patients like me, the man who approved it for the FDA pushes for a recall
Mourners pray during the funeral for Fadhel Salman al-Matrook on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain. Al-Matrook was killed Tuesday when police tried to stop a funeral march for another Bahraini killed in anti-government protests. Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain's rulers held their ground Wednesday in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital's landmark square, staging a third day of demonstrations that have brought unprecedented pressures in one of Washington's most strategic allies in the Gulf. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Riot police attack Bahrain protesters

Associated Press
Hundreds of security forces use rubber bullets, tear gas and clubs in attempt to suppress protesters
Map locates Benghazi, Libya, where there are protests to ouster the government (AP)

Protests spread: Bahrain, Yemen and now Libya

Hadeel Al-shalchi
Turmoil in Bahrain, Yemen, and Libya as protestors look to Tunisia and Egypt for how to overhaul old regimes
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