Jim Lobe

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• Inter Press Service
  

  ’Pentagon Moved to Fix Iraqi Media Before Invasion’

  Wednesday May 9th, 2007
• Right Web
  

  A "New Diplomatic Offensive"?

  Monday March 5th, 2007
• Inter Press Service
  

  Korea Deal Marks Big Victory for Realists

  Wednesday February 14th, 2007
• Inter Press Service
  

  Arabs Less Worried About Iran, Poll Finds

  Thursday February 8th, 2007
• Inter Press Service
  

  Now it’s official: Iraq’s a mess

  Friday February 2nd, 2007
• Inter Press Service
  

  Groups Denounce Deal on Detainee Rights

  Friday September 22nd, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  US-Iran: War, Diplomacy on Parallel Tracks

  Wednesday September 20th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  10 Billion Dollars Could Buy Universal Schooling

  Tuesday September 12th, 2006
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  Bush Finally Gets Good News on Iraq

  Thursday June 8th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Report Traces U.S./EU Covert Rendition Network

  Wednesday June 7th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Afghanistan: Bush May Have to Rethink Withdrawal Plans

  Tuesday May 30th, 2006
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  Darfur: Grim and Getting Grimmer

  Friday May 26th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Right-Wing Israel Lobby Seizes on Olmert Visit

  Wednesday May 24th, 2006
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  Bush Democracy Doctrine, 2003(?)-2006, R.I.P.

  Tuesday May 23rd, 2006
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  Iran Target of Apparent Disinformation Ploy

  Monday May 22nd, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Cui Bono? Negroponte or Rumsfeld

  Monday May 8th, 2006
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  Terrorism Still Thriving, State Department Says

  Friday April 28th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Impunity Endures Two Years After Abu Ghraib

  Wednesday April 26th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Guest Hu Coming to Lunch

  Wednesday April 19th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Amid Threats, Some Republicans Seek Talks on Iran

  Wednesday April 19th, 2006
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  Rumsfeld’s Fall Drags Hawks in Its Wake

  Monday April 17th, 2006
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  To Battle Stations! To Battle Stations!

  Thursday April 13th, 2006
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  Iran Showdown Tests Power of "Israel Lobby"

  Tuesday April 11th, 2006
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  Sudan: U.S. Lawmakers Expand Sanctions Against Regime

  Wednesday April 5th, 2006
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  Indonesia: U.S. Lifts Ban on Sale of Lethal Arms

  Thursday March 30th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Argentina: Kissinger Moved to Back Junta 30 Years Ago

  Friday March 24th, 2006
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  Nuclear Pact with India Seen as Surrender

  Friday March 3rd, 2006
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  Poll of US Troops in Iraq Underlines Growing Pressure to Withdraw

  Tuesday February 28th, 2006
• Inter Press Service
  

  Iran: Two Top Ministers Accused of Atrocities

  Thursday December 15th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Ignore Africa at Your Peril, Think Tank Warns Bush

  Tuesday December 6th, 2005
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  Wade Urged to Extradite Ex-Chadian Leader

  Friday November 25th, 2005
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  Renewal of Military Ties Angers Rights Groups

  Thursday November 24th, 2005
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  A Close Call for Al-Jazeera?

  Wednesday November 23rd, 2005
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  More Wheels Spin Off Iraq Policy

  Saturday November 19th, 2005
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  Haiti: OAS Urged to Rein In Police, Peacekeepers

  Wednesday November 16th, 2005
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  Rumsfeld Rejects U.N. Access to Guantanamo

  Wednesday November 2nd, 2005
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  Historic ICC Arrest Warrants Evoke Praise, Concern

  Friday October 14th, 2005
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  A Lose-Lose Referendum?

  Tuesday October 11th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Condi May Be Bush’s Expediency Council

  Monday October 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Afghanistan: Four Years After US Campaign, Perils Abound

  Wednesday October 5th, 2005
• Antiwar.com
  

  Public Skeptical About Bush’s Democracy Crusade

  Friday September 30th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Think Tank Issues Two-Year Iraq Exit Plan

  Friday September 30th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Can the US Military Presence Avert Civil War?

  Monday September 26th, 2005
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  Anti-Terror Strategy in Doubt on 9/11 Anniversary

  Friday September 9th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Iraq War Splurge Hits Home at 230 kph

  Thursday September 1st, 2005
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  Democracy or Disintegration?

  Tuesday August 30th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Iran’s Growing Sway in Iraq Defies Neocons’ Logic

  Friday August 26th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Democrats Fumble Iraq Policy

  Thursday August 25th, 2005
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  Has the "Tipping Point" on Iraq Been Reached?

  Friday August 19th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Reviving the ”Radical Centre”

  Tuesday August 2nd, 2005
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  Group Slams the ”Iron Triangle” of Food Aid

  Friday July 29th, 2005
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  Civil War Spectre Spurs New Iraq Exit Plans

  Monday July 25th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  ”PlameGate” Is Hardly a Summer Squall

  Tuesday July 19th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  ExxonMobil Takes Heat on Global Warming

  Tuesday July 12th, 2005
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  Michael Jackson Easily Trumps Darfur on Nightly News

  Tuesday July 12th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  London Hit as Scepticism Grows on ”Terror War”

  Friday July 8th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush’s Iraq Speech Falls Flat

  Wednesday June 29th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  ”Evolution” Preferred Over ”Revolution” in Arab Lands

  Thursday June 9th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Congress Moves to Cut U.N. Funding

  Wednesday June 8th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Rights Group Calls Andijan Deaths a ”Massacre”

  Tuesday June 7th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  ICC to Probe Darfur Killings

  Monday June 6th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Right-Wing Hostility to NGOs Glimpsed in Amnesty Flap

  Sunday June 5th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush, Cheney Attack Amnesty International

  Wednesday June 1st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Military Finds Itself in Twilight Zone

  Tuesday May 31st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush Accused of Complacency, Double-Dealing on Darfur

  Wednesday May 25th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Give Rumsfeld the Pinochet Treatment, Says U.S. Amnesty Chief

  Wednesday May 25th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Pleasantries But No Change as Bush Greets Karzai

  Monday May 23rd, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S. Caught Up Short by Uzbekistan Violence

  Wednesday May 18th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Former PM’s Hunger Strike Highlights Sense of Chaos

  Tuesday May 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Independent Access to Khuzestan Urged in Wake of Violence

  Tuesday May 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Latest Abuse Investigation Report, a Whitewash - Groups

  Friday March 11th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Unipolarity Re-Affirmed

  Friday March 11th, 2005
• TomPaine.com
  

  The Armageddon Nominee

  Monday March 7th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Congressional Leaders Seek Urgent Moves on Darfur

  Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Rumsfeld Sued Over Torture in Iraq and Afghanistan

  Tuesday March 1st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Scepticism Over Renewed Military Ties With Indonesia

  Tuesday March 1st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  US: State Department Report Assails Usual Suspects

  Monday February 28th, 2005
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  U.S. on Sidelines of Yet Another Global Treaty

  Friday February 25th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  US: Hemispheric Issues Languishing, Group Warns

  Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Jaafari Victory Win for Administration Pragmatists

  Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
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  Negroponte Pick as Intel Chief a Win for Realists

  Saturday February 19th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Pressure Grows to Send Darfur Killings to The Hague

  Friday February 18th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  European-U.S. ”Compact” Proposed for Thorniest Issues

  Thursday February 17th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Hariri Killing Sure to Bolster U.S. Hawks

  Tuesday February 15th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Gold Jewelry - World’s Dirtiest Valentine’s Gift?

  Monday February 14th, 2005
• Antiwar.com
  

  Egyptian Dissidents Arrested on Eve of ’National Dialogue’

  Thursday February 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Iran War Drums Beat Harder

  Thursday February 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Washington Warms to Indonesia’s Unruly Army

  Monday February 7th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Hawk-Realist Impasse Could Persist in Second Term

  Saturday February 5th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Afghanistan: The Birth of a Narco-State

  Friday February 4th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Guns and Gangs in Nigeria’s Oil Capital

  Friday February 4th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Middle East "Uber Alles" in the Second Term

  Thursday February 3rd, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Pressure Mounts on G-7 to Cancel "Odious" Debts

  Wednesday February 2nd, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  More Cannon Fodder, Please

  Tuesday February 1st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Pentagon’s Guantanamo Courts Ruled Illegal

  Tuesday February 1st, 2005
• TomPaine.com
  

  Losing Feith

  Monday January 31st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Iraq War, Budget Pressures Squeeze Overseas Aid

  Friday January 28th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Abuse, Torture by Iraqi Police Called Routine

  Tuesday January 25th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush’s Delicate Dilemma on Darfur

  Monday January 24th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Israeli Trench Could Destroy 3,000 Palestinian Homes

  Monday January 24th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush Plugs the Window-Dressing, Cheney the Nitty-Gritty

  Friday January 21st, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Unclouded by Doubt, Bush Vows Freedom-Spreading Mission

  Thursday January 20th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush Bad for Global Peace, US Image, World Believes

  Wednesday January 19th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  New Military Links to Indonesia Debated

  Tuesday January 18th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Iranian Nobel Laureate Follows in King’s Footsteps

  Monday January 17th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Neo-Conservatives At Sea

  Friday January 14th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Report Singles Out U.S., Sudan For Strong Censure

  Thursday January 13th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Terror War Diverting Attention from Roots of Insecurity

  Wednesday January 12th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Sudan: Roots of Bloodshed Run Deep, Experts Warn

  Monday January 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  More Dissent in Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War

  Monday January 10th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Rice Surprises

  Thursday January 6th, 2005
• Inter Press Service
  

  Meanwhile, Back in Iraq...

  Wednesday January 5th, 2005
• Foreign Policy In Focus
  

  Iraq War is Bad for Business

  Friday December 31st, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Challenges 2004-2005: If Not a Unipolar World, Then What?

  Wednesday December 29th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Challenges 2004-2005: Bye Bye Unipolar World

  Tuesday December 28th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Emails Reveal More Abuses in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay

  Monday December 20th, 2004
• TomPaine.com
  

  Neocon Christmas List

  Monday December 20th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Are They Serious About Syria?

  Thursday December 16th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Darfur - Hundreds of ’Days of Failure’

  Friday December 10th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  So Little Time, So Many Regimes to Change

  Thursday December 9th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  More Troops Mean More Trouble

  Thursday December 2nd, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S. Downplays Report on Guantanamo Prisoner Abuse

  Tuesday November 30th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Neo-Cons Hop On Extreme Right’s Anti-UN Drive

  Tuesday November 30th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S. Congress Pushes Penalties for Global Court Support

  Monday November 29th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  From Plymouth Rock to Baghdad, Iraq

  Thursday November 25th, 2004
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  U.S. Media Miss Rumsfeld’s ’Dirty Wars’ Talk

  Tuesday November 23rd, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Groups Push Bulldozer Maker to End Sales to Israel

  Tuesday November 23rd, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Hawks Push Regime Change in North Korea

  Monday November 22nd, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Don’t Count Out Realists Yet

  Thursday November 18th, 2004
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  Reinforce Rules of War, Urges Amnesty

  Wednesday November 17th, 2004
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  Hawks Flying High With Rice Posting

  Tuesday November 16th, 2004
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  The Good Soldier Abandons the Field

  Monday November 15th, 2004
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  Arafat’s Passing Poses Major Test for Bush II

  Thursday November 11th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush Pick for Legal Chief Bedevils Foes

  Wednesday November 10th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Springtime for Spooks?

  Tuesday November 9th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  ’Phantom Fury’ Poised to Become Phantom Victory

  Monday November 8th, 2004
• TomPaine.com
  

  Neocons Gone Wild

  Monday November 8th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Legal Know-How Absent at Guantanamo Bay?

  Monday November 8th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Bush, Republican Right, Extend Mandate

  Wednesday November 3rd, 2004
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  U.S. Election: The Test for the West

  Tuesday November 2nd, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Republican Desertions Could Cost Bush

  Thursday October 28th, 2004
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  No Change in U.S. Torture Policy - Amnesty

  Wednesday October 27th, 2004
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  Bush Backers Steadfast on Saddam-Al-Qaeda, WMD

  Thursday October 21st, 2004
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  Muslim Support for ’War on Terror’ Plummets

  Wednesday October 20th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Fear of Military Draft a Growing Factor

  Wednesday October 20th, 2004
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  So, Did Saddam Hussein Try to Kill Bush’s Dad?

  Tuesday October 19th, 2004
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  New Flexibility on the Evil Axis?

  Wednesday October 13th, 2004
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  Bush Policies ’Fuel Violence’, Say 500 U.S. Scholars

  Wednesday October 13th, 2004
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  African Feminist and Enviro Champion Takes Peace Prize

  Friday October 8th, 2004
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  Sidelined Neo-Cons Stoke Future Fires

  Thursday October 7th, 2004
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  Bush’s Case for War Crumbles

  Wednesday October 6th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Foe of ’Radical Feminism’ to Train Iraqi Women

  Tuesday October 5th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S. Isolated as Kremlin Endorses Kyoto

  Thursday September 30th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S.-Backed Warlords Big Threat to Afghan Elections

  Wednesday September 29th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Poll Finds A Nation Chastened by War

  Tuesday September 28th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  From Bad to Worse in Iraq

  Thursday September 16th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S. Keeps Winning Battles, Losing Wars

  Thursday August 12th, 2004
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  Prisoner Abuse Scandal Rocks Legal, Medical Worlds

  Friday August 6th, 2004
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  World Bank Still Says Yes to Oil, Gas Projects

  Wednesday August 4th, 2004
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  Land Disputes in Kurdistan Could Boil Over Into Violence

  Tuesday August 3rd, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  U.S. Public Backs Force Against Sudan ’Genocide’

  Tuesday July 20th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Realists and Neo-Cons Renew Battle on Iran

  Tuesday July 20th, 2004
• Inter Press Service
  

  Rummy on the Rocks

  Friday May 7th, 2004
• Al-Ahram Weekly
  

  A beginner’s guide to PNAC

  Thursday April 15th, 2004