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Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 04:03 in comments, iraq, george w bush, tony blair, saddam hussein, wmd
(Informed Comment, December 13, 2009) Deepak Tripathi, former BBC journalist and author of the book Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac, January 2010), writes in guest op-ed for IC: Since the launch of the Iraq Inquiry in Lon...
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Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 12:20 in comments, war on terror, afghanistan, president obama, afghanistan surge, afpak, afghanistan counterinsurgency, mcchrystal plan
Deepak Tripathi (Informed Comment, November 13, 2009) News that the US ambassador to Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, has sent classified messages to Washington in the last few days, advising President Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan, is dramatic...
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Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 12:03 in comments, america, us, occupation, empire, culture and consumption, nature of empire, nature of globalization
Deepak Tripathi (History News Network, November 2, 2009) President Barack Obama is having a bad time. The health reforms he so confidently promised have been bogged down in Congress for months; his Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, said the other day ...
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Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 06:23 in United States, articles, iran, nuclear, 2009 election
Looks at the game of brinkmanship between Iran and the United States. ...
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Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 06:29 in comments, war on terror, torture, bush presidency
This review puts Christopher Pyle's book, Getting Away with Torture, in historical perspective. ...
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Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 13:30 in china, obama, articles, iran, us policy
Assesses President Barack Obama's policy with respect to Iran and China. ...
Great blog on the war on terror!!
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