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Obama in talks with Gates on Pentagon role

By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington President-elect Barack Obama and Robert Gates are negotiating terms under which the defence secretary would remain as Pentagon chief in his administration, the Financial Times has learned....

Military Ready To Implement Obama's Plans

Joint Chiefs Chairman Says Forces Are Ready To Shift From Iraq To Afghanistan. Mullen said that the military is ready to implement President-elect Barack Obama's plans, including shifting troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. (AP...

Bakshi: Is No News Really Good News?: On the road to peace between Israel and Palestine

Gitanjali Bakshi writes in a guest op-ed for IC:After months of slow but substantive progress, recent developments in Occupied Palestine, Israel and the U.S. have been largely unproductive. If we continue along this path in...

Please allow me to introduce myself ....

Over and over, we are told the surge is a success and anyone who opposed it had better hang their head in shame should he or she ever wish to appear in polite society again. Alas, things are undoubtedly better in Iraq than...

Afghan border success may mean more fighting

By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Tuesday, November 18, 2008 ARLINGTON, Va. — The Pakistani military is pushing militants into Afghanistan, meaning U.S. troops there could face a tougher fight this winter, a...

Editorial: Sparing Lieberman

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Barack Obama has pledged a different tone in Washington. So far he seems startlingly consistent. He could have given an emperor’s thumbs-down to Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee...

Tomgram: Aziz Huq, Imperial Pretensions and the Financial Crunch

Don’t trust me as a gambler. You’d probably make more by putting your money into credit-default swaps. Nonetheless, I’d like to make a small wager on who the single significant holdover from the Bush administration might be...

Czech MPs delay U.S. shield deal debate until Obama's inauguration

MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Czech parliament will not resume consideration of a Czech-U.S. missile defense treaty until Barack Obama officially assumes the U.S. presidency, the speaker of the lower house said on...

Afghans Expect More Talks Soon with Ex-Taliban

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan government representatives will meet former members of the Taliban behind closed doors in Saudi Arabia soon for a second round of talks on how to end the insurgency. The Taliban derided a first round in...

Hagel, Unrestrained, Lashes Into Bush, Rush And The GOP

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:03 PM EST Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck Hagel is increasingly unrestrained by political niceties. Appearing at a forum at the Johns Hopkins School of Advances...

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