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Is Al-Jazeera ready for prime time?
Corey Pein
The "Fox News of the Arab world" plans to take on Rupert Murdoch and friends with a new English-language service -- unless the Bush administration succeeds in squashing it.
“Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye”
John Vidal
Some experts believe that global oil production will peak as early as next year, radically changing the world as we know it.
Life of the Party
Tim Grieve
Brian Schweitzer, the blue governor of the red state of Montana, may just have the answer to the Democrats' woes.
Japan, deputy sheriff?
Simon Tisdall
Washington's desire to use the country as a command post for operations extending to the Middle East, and tensions with China, have Tokyo rethinking its notions of pacifism.
Poisoning Iraq’s wild east
Rory Carroll
Alarm grows over fishermen's use of chemicals and electric shock in one of the world's greatest wetlands.
Can the vote on Bolton come soon enough?
Tim Grieve
With Republican Chuck Hagel beginning to waver, the bads news keeps coming about Bush's nominee for the United Nations.
Hypocrisy on nonproliferation
Richard Norton-Taylor
If their ultimate objective truly is complete nuclear disarmament, the U.S. and Britain are sending a dangerous message to nations without weapons.
New Iraqi leaders take oath of office
Antonio Castaneda
Iraqi interim president, council sworn in
Antonio Castaneda
Turning neocons green
Amanda Griscom Little
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says that Bush's plan to remake the Middle East will fail unless the U.S. starts guzzling less gas -- and that if asked, Americans will pay $4 a gallon.
The life of a female spy
Suzanne Goldenberg
In her book "Denial and Deception," former CIA agent Melissa Mahle talks about giving birth in the morning and, with no maternity leave, returning to work the same evening.
Beyond “Please fondle my buttocks”
Lauren Aaronson
As more Arabic speakers take up blogging, better translation programs could promote cross-cultural understanding -- and avoid Monty Python-like misunderstandings.
Finding fault
Julian Borger
A presidential commission's report on WMD blames the CIA for intelligence failures in Iraq, and warns they could be repeated in Iran and North Korea.
How they learned to love the bomb
Leigh Flayton
Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.
Reinventing “we the peoples”
Ian Williams
Kofi Annan proposes the first major reforms of the U.N. since it was created 60 years ago, and he knows they won't please everyone.
Where the Iraqis really do throw flowers
David Axe
The Kurds love American GIs. But will the good feelings continue if the U.S. has to rein in Kurdish ambitions?
Paying the price for Bush’s retro energy policy
Arianna Huffington
President Bush's energy policies are a throwback to the age of the dinosaurs.
Death penalty for I.V. drug users
Maia Szalavitz
The Bush administration is considering imposing a gag rule on U.S.-funded groups that provide clean needles to addicts, despite their huge success in preventing the spread of HIV.
Bush’s nuclear problem
Page Rockwell
One of several, actually: A scandal-plagued plan for "safe" storage of the nation's nuclear waste.
Twisted “Cedar”
Mitchell Prothero
As crucial elections approach, the Lebanese opposition is divided about its next move. Are these differences merely tactical -- or could they plunge Lebanon back into chaos?
The Democrats’ Middle East dilemma
Page Rockwell
Savaged by right-wingers for a "Daily Show" appearance in which she seemed to root for U.S. failure, former Clinton advisor Nancy Soderberg talks about what Bush does and doesn't deserve credit for.
Mutual distrust
Simon Tisdall
Unless somebody gives ground soon, the talks next week between Iran and the E.U. could mark the end of negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program.
The Washington establishment fails Logic 101
Arianna Huffington
Politicians and pundits who attribute changes in the Middle East to the American invasion are living in a fairy tale.
Democracy — by George?
Juan Cole
President Bush and his supporters are taking credit for spreading freedom across the Middle East. Here's why they're wrong.
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