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Is the Iraq war worth the cost?
Tim Grieve
Americans say "the result of the war" isn't worth the cost. But what is the result, anyway?
Domino diplomacy
Sidney Blumenthal
Condi Rice and Co. are using the conflict in Lebanon as a proxy war with Iran that will somehow rescue the U.S. from failure in Iraq.
Negotiating the peace
Rami Khouri
Diplomats must set aside ideology and focus on the resolvable Lebanese-Israeli dispute. Only then can the wider conflict between the U.S. and Israel, and the Arab world, be addressed.
A circular firing squad, with Rice in the middle
Tim Grieve
Magazine says Bush's conservative advisors are urging him to dump his secretary of state.
Bush, al-Maliki and the search for a fall guy
Tim Grieve
Iraq's prime minister visits the White House.
Bush’s diplomacy allergy
Laura Rozen
As war in the Middle East rages, even some conservatives are calling for the U.S. to start talking to its enemies, not just its friends.
Why Israelis believe they’re right
Samuel G. Freedman
Much of the world sees the Israeli attacks on Lebanon as disproportionate. But for the vast majority of Israelis, including some former doves, the war against Hezbollah is deterrence in self-defense.
Big Feminism takes on Big Oil
Sarah Goldstein
Ms. Magazine looks at how the U.S. government's energy policies deplete women's rights here and abroad.
What’s one more war?
Joe Conason
Instead of learning from their bloody mistakes, the neocons see Lebanon as a chance to repeat them.
The Persian game
Afshin Molavi
Masters of ambiguity, Iran's leaders don't want war with Israel and the U.S. -- and are more alarmed by the Lebanese crisis than the West realizes.
The showdown
Aluf Benn
Israel has decided to put a final stop to Hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah -- and for once the world supports it. But even if it wins this war, another is probably coming.
Israel’s maximal option
Juan Cole
Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work.
Is freedom still marching?
Tim Grieve
A year ago, the president celebrated "remarkable developments" in the Middle East. Have they all gone to "shit"?
The Mideast death dance
Rami G. Khouri
Hamas and Hezbollah, Lebanon and Palestine, Syria and Iran, the U.S. and Israel: Unless these four pairs of actors turn away from their failed policies, the Middle East will sink further into violence and despair.
Lebanon pays for Hezbollah’s sins
Mitchell Prothero
A report from Lebanon's south, ravaged by retaliatory Israeli strikes.
World out of control
Tim Grieve
Lebanon, India, North Korea, Iran -- and we haven't even gotten to Iraq or Darfur yet.
Destination: Armenia
Meline Toumani
Discover the former Soviet Union's smallest republic through its fantastic national epic, an exceptional memoir and a love letter from a great Russian poet.
How sanctions worked for South Africa’s Sasol
Andrew Leonard
From an Arab oil embargo to coal gasification mastery
China’s trade deficits
Andrew Leonard
Never mind the shocking trade surplus numbers. Who does China import from?
Did the invasion make things worse in Iraq?
Nir Rosen
A reporter who has watched the country unravel compares its hellish present to the nightmare it lived under Saddam.
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