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The New Tehran-Riyadh Rivalry
Afghanistan has been something of a forgotten war in recent months because of the world’s preoccupation with Libya and Egypt and the wave of antigovernment protests spreading throughout the Middle East. That will soon change, now that the Obama Administration is stepping up talks with the Taliban in an effort to come up with some peaceable endgame to the half-trillion-dollar war
Obama’s Afghanistan Policy: Separating Taliban, al-Qaeda
To understand Barack Obama’s Afghanistan decision, it’s instructive to go back to one history-shifting sentence, uttered by his predecessor more than eight years ago. It was Sept
Malaysia: Merger Is a Must
Ever since its victorious, twelve-year guerrilla war against Communist rebels, rubber-rich Malaya has been an eye of calm amidst the storm of Southeast Asia.
Poverty: The Other War
Since Lyndon Johnson declared his war on poverty in 1964, the program has stirred a steady drumfire of criticism that amounts to a war within a war. Last week some of the stoutest supporters of the antipoverty campaign engaged in a corrosive crossfire that could only further damage the Administration's prospects of getting its preshrunk, $2.06 billion request for the program through a critical Congress.
The Survivor
Correction Appended: Feb. 5, 2010 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flies around the world to war zones and allies, to China and Russia and Suriname, on a Cold War relic called the Doomsday Plane
Europe’s Family Feud
The arrogant superpower demands fealty from the lesser states, and quashes any back talk.
Was Evidence Against Accused Nazi Criminal John Demjanjuk Faked?
The Nazi war crimes trial of 91-year-old John Demjanjuk — accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II — took a new twist on Wednesday when the defense team asked for the trial to be suspended after new revelations emerged suggesting that crucial evidence in the case had been faked. As lawyers wrapped up their closing arguments in Munich, Demjanjuk’s defense attorney drew the judges’ attention to an FBI report that had been kept secret for years — and was obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday — which appears to challenge the authenticity of Demjanjuk’s alleged Nazi identity card that is central to the prosecution’s case
10 Questions for Robert Redford
Were you disappointed that your Civil War movie didn’t have any battle scenes?No, I wasn’t, because it’s been done so much. There have been some wonderful films with beautifully done battles and gore and all that
Why South Africa is Emerging as a Hot Film Location
The creators of the british comic strip Judge Dredd imagined Mega-City One as a colossal metropolis in the postapocalyptic near future stretching from Boston to Washington, home to 400 million people living in 200-story blocks.