Pepe Escobar: Commentary on Obama's speech to the Muslim World.

Fawzi: the speech was brilliant but now let's see what happens on the ground

saw this news headline and now I know this VP dabate is BS..

August 22, 2008
ANP: Republicans are blaming Democrats' resistance to expanded domestic oil drilling for high gas prices
American News Project: Energy is currently the most debated issue on Capitol Hill,   more...and Republicans in Congress have seized the moment to stage a political coup, blaming Democratic resistance to expanded domestic oil drilling for high gas prices. Democrats have started to cave to some of the pressure. But would more drilling help anytime soon?  less

Aijaz Ahmad: What would a rational US foreign policy look like? Pt 9

Scores killed by blasts in Baghdad and Kirkuk could be a forewarning as rival elites fight for power

Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinians have already compromised a compromise

Why can't North American cars compete; and why should workers bear the brunt from lack of planning?

Gareth Porter: McCain and Obama are not listening to Iraqis

Sabah al-Nasseri: Washington cannot dictate politics in Iraq (1 of 5)

Prof. Sahimi: Both sides are playing to their domestic audience (6 of 6)

WJAR is using the new Media General graphic package. WJAR is the NBC affiliate in Providence/New Bedford, RI.

Muhammad Sahimi: The legal grounds for UN sanctions and Res. 362 have not been established (3 of 6

Obama's vote for FISA leads supporters to doubt his promises

Aijaz Ahmad: Start with the question, why does the US have to be the most powerful country on earth?

Plan Colombia weakens FARC but cocaine production up at record levels

Khan: If it lasts longer than a week, Pak govt's offensive risks bringing Taliban's war to the cities

Alterman and Escobar debate if Obama is a conservative politician or a progressive who knows how to win

Michael Ratner: This decision is the death knell for Guantanamo

Major networks spend only 2 minutes per week on Iraq war coverage; Lara Logan of CBS joins critique

Filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin on the troubling past of one of the world's biggest agricultural companies

Antonia Juhasz: Unregulated and criminal speculation main cause of high oil prices

Aijaz Ahmad: There is no military solution to the war in Afghanistan (3/4)

NATO forces push Taliban out of Arghandab district but for how long?