Arab Opinion: No Western Intervention in Syria

Via Daniel Larison, this Pew survey finds broad Arab support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to step down and very little support for a Western military intervention:  As Larison notes, "the farther removed from Syria’s immediate vicinity they are, respondents tend to be...

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‘Simply put, no one is in charge.’

This Associated Press article comes from reporters who spent two weeks with opposition fighters in northern Syria. It is notable because almost all of the reporting on the conflict in Syria has been through second or third parties, often from a station in neighboring...

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David Henderson: Iran Is Not Our Enemy

Antiwar.com economic analyst David Henderson appeared on Russia Today's Crosstalk. Peter Lavelle hosts, along with other guests Dan Williams of Reuters, and Sadegh Zibakalam of the University of Tehran. David explains that Iran is not our enemy and that there is no...

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Which Way for the Paul Movement?

Writing in the New York Times, Brian Doherty, author of a recently published book on Ron Paul, asks the question: "For the Ron Paul Wing, Now What?" In the midst of an otherwise insightful and sympathetic piece, we get a disapproving reference to a lawsuit against the...

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The Apple of My Eye-Ranian

An odd story is emerging today, revealing that at least some Apple Stores are refusing to sell products to ethnically Persian people and claiming it is because of the US embargo on Iran. The reports begin in Georgia, where a 19-year-old US citizen was barred from...

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Ban Weaponized Drones from the World

From Roots Action: Meticulous researchers have documented that U.S. drones are killing many innocent civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Drones are making the world less stable and creating new enemies. Their remoteness provides those responsible with a sense...

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Five Broken Cameras

From Washington Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace: Five Broken Cameras Documentary Shows Israeli Incursions into West Bank Never Before Captured on Camera Busboys & Poets and Jewish Voice for Peace to sponsor special Peace Cafe discussion following July 15 showing at...

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Rand Paul: Phony As Ever

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) tries to calm the waters roiled by his preemptive endorsement of Mitt "I'd Bomb Iran" Romney by taking to the pages of National Review Online to "rip" (as Conor Friedersdorf put it) Romney's view that the President doesn't need separate...

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