August 2010 Index
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- The Latest from Iran (31 August): Unity? What Unity?
- Iran: Ahmadinejad's Trash Talk (Theodoulou)
- Iran Witness: Activist Mahboubeh Karami on Six Months in Detention
- Israel: A Rabbi's War on Palestinians (Yenidunya)
- China Economy Weekly: Southeast Asia’s Robust Trade; High-Speed Railways; China Becomes Hydro Superpower
- US Culture: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims (The Onion)
- Gaza Latest: Cairo Intercepts Missiles, Mossad's Flotilla Testimony, and Hamas on Direct Talks
- Iran Breaking: Karroubi on Election Fraud; House Surrounded by Pro-Regime Crowd
- The Latest from Iran (30 August): Khamenei Slaps Down Ahmadinejad
- Iran: The Regime Feels the Pressure on Stoning
- Turkey Inside Line: New Anti-PKK Equipment; Waiting for an Apology from Israel
- Iran Special: Political Prisoners, Election Fraud, & The Regime's Backfiring Propaganda
- Israel-Palestine Opinion: Hamas, Northern Ireland, and US Diplomacy (Abunimah)
- US Culture: A Burned Mosque Site Far from New York City
- The Latest from Iran (29 August): The "Hidden Imam" Circle
- Iran: Ahmadinejad Attacks Rafsanjani & "Corrupt" Foes; "Overthrowers Have Not Been Punished Yet" (Kamdar)
- UPDATED Iran: Tehran Declares Readiness for Nuclear Talks?
- US Special: America's Legacy of Torture
- Iran: An Ayatollah's "Larijani is a Jew" Declaration
- China This Week: China-Japan Economic Dialogue; Move on North Korea Talks; Partnership with South Africa and Vietnam
- US Politics: Glenn Beck on Martin Luther King "A Radical Socialist Icon"
- US Politics: Left-Wing Radio and the Rhetoric of Hate (Haddigan)
- The Latest from Iran (28 August): Music, Sanctions, and Science
- US Video: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
- US Politics: The Daily Show on Martin Luther King (1963) and Glenn Beck (2010)
- Afghanistan: Hearts and Minds v. Blood and Anger (Mull)
- Iran: Obama Rejects a Public "Red Line" on Nuclear Capability (Porter)
- Iran Music Special: The Kanye West No-War Rap
- Extra! Extra! Fridays Now More Fun Thanks To Enduring America Daily
- The Latest from Iran (27 August): One Voice in Iran?
- Afghanistan Follow-Up: US Government v. Karzai (and the CIA) on "Corruption" (Miller/Partlow)
- Iraq: The US Strategy for a Government (Visser)
- Iran: Conservatives v. Ahmadinejad (Jedinia)
- Israel-Palestine: The Hamas Factor
- The Latest from Iran (26 August): Ahmadinejad v. "Seditionists"
- Middle East Inside Line: "Warm" Turkish-Israeli Relations; Latest on Israel-Palestine Talks
- Afghanistan: Latest US v. Karzai Fight over Corruption (Filkins/Mazzetti)
- Iraq Follow-Up: 64 Dead in Bombings --- What is the Significance? (Cole)
- How Do You Solve A Problem Like Pakistan in Afghanistan? (Mull Responds to Ackerman)
- US Politics: Can Obama and the Democrats Retain Control of Congress? (Haddigan)
- The Latest from Iran (25 August): Unity?
- Israel-Palestine Analysis: What is Washington's Strategy on Settlements and Talks?
- Iraq Breaking: Bombings Kill Dozens, Wound More than 200 Across Country
- Middle East Inside Line: Hezbollah's "Evidence" on Hariri Assassination; A Nuclear Reactor in Lebanon?
- The US Military & Guantanamo: Force-Feeding Prisoners During Ramadan (Rosenberg)
- Iran Propaganda Special: US Soldiers, Bitter Chocolate, & the Prophet Muhammad
- Iran: Is President's Chief of Staff Rahim-Mashai Taking On Foreign Policy?
- The Latest from Iran (24 August): Keeping the News Alive
- Pakistan: Floods, Bombings, & A Drone Strike (Cole)
- Iraq: Requiem for A US Mission (Los Angeles Times)
- Iran, Political Prisoners, & New Media: Discovering The Case of Zahra Bahrami
- Iran Feature: Why "Normal" Is Not Bad (Pedestrian)
- China Economy Weekly: Foreign Reserves; Investment and Trade Surges; Co-operation with India and with General Motors
- The Latest from Iran (23 August): Political Cease-fire?
- Palestine-Israel Analysis: Ramallah's "One Month Trial" and Netanyahu's "Security Card"
- UPDATED Iran: Today's Shiny Object for Media? Why, It's an Ambassador-of-Death Drone Bomber!
- Israel-Palestine: Forget the Hype, Talks Are Going Nowhere (Walt)
- UPDATED Iran Special: Have Ahmadinejad and Ali Larijani Kissed and Made Up?
- Afghanistan Tangled: How Pakistan Used the US & an Arrest to Block Peace Talks with Taliban (Filkins)
- Iran Document: Interview with Detained Filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad
- US Politics: Is This the Beginning --- or the Beginning of the End --- for Glenn Beck? (Haddigan)
- The Latest from Iran (22 August): Ahmadinejad Aide Mortazavi Suspended?
- Iraq Video & Analysis: Odierno Sets Up the Long Haul Non-Withdrawal
- UPDATED US Politics: Obama is a Muslim (This Time They're Serious)
- Israel-Palestine-Gaza Latest: Not So Fast With Those Talks?; Lebanese Aid Ship Delayed
- China This Week: Geological Disasters; US-Chinese Relations; Carbon Emissions
- UPDATED New York's Proposed Islamic Cultural Center: The Daily Show's Investigation
- The Latest from Iran (21 August): Nuclear Games and Questions
- Israel-Palestine Analysis: Why Did Ramallah Agree to Direct Talks? (Yenidunya)
- Iran Video: BBC Interview with Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei
- Iraq Special: Obama Declares Victory. Sort Of. Depends How You Look at It. (The Onion)
- Iraq Special: When a Withdrawal Is Not a Withdrawal (Alaaldin)
- Iraq Special: When a War is Not Over (Bacevich)
- The Latest from Iran (20 August): What is Going On Over Nuclear Talks?
- UPDATED Israel-Palestine: US Invites Both Sides to Direct Talks on 2 September
- Gaza Latest (20 August): Aid Ship Mariam to Sail on Sunday?, UN Report on Gaza Restrictions, & Hamas v. Fatah
- Gaza: UN Releases Report on War "No Judgement"
- Turkey's Israel "Problem": Analysing the Supposed Threat from Washington (Yenidunya)
- Iran Document & Analysis: Supreme Leader's Speech on US-Iran Relations & Internal Situation (18 August)
- Iraq: The Political Worries Beyond the US "Withdrawal" (Shadid)
- Iran: Obama Administration Dampens Down War Chatter (Mazzetti/Sanger)
- The Latest from Iran (19 August): Freedom & Detention
- Rewriting Iran's History: The 1953 Coup, the CIA, the Clerics, and "Democracy" (Emery)
- Iran Cartoon of the Day: 1953 Speaks to 2010
- Pakistan and the Floods: America's Broken Response (Mull)
- US Politics & Religion: A Way Forward on and beyond the Islamic Cultural Centre (Ezell)
- The Latest from Iran (18 August): A Letter and A Call for Bombing
- UPDATED Iran Video Special: Have Fars (& Revolutionary Guard) Faked a Reformist "Confession" on Election?
- UPDATED Iran Analysis: What Has Green Movement Achieved? (Sahimi)
- Iran Document: Nourizad's Last Letter to Supreme Leader "The 10 Grievances"
- Iran Feature: Sanctions, Iranians, and YouTube's "Life in a Day" (Esfandiary)
- US Analysis: The Limits of Military Power (Miller)
- New York's Proposed Islamic Cultural Center: Information & Comment (Olbermann)
- The Latest from Iran (17 August): The Green Movement, Ahmadinejad, and a "Confession"
- UPDATED Iraq: At Least 48 Killed, More than 125 Injured in Bomb Attack
- Iran Video: "His Excellency" Ahmadinejad Interviewed by George Galloway (15 August)
- US-Israel-Palestine Analysis: Arabs Talk Nuclear-Free Region, but Israel Returns US "Quartet Card"
- Afghanistan Analysis: Can Obama Control His Generals? (Mull)
- China Economy Weekly: Rail Projects, Inflation, International Trade Links
- UPDATED Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran Video and Transcript: Petraeus Doubtful Over 2011 Drawdown?
- The Latest from Iran (16 August): Complaints
- Russia and Georgia: The Ongoing Conflict over Abkhazia
- Iran Document: Mohammad Khatami on Religion, the Islamic Revolution, and the Republic (15 August)
- Iran's Battle Within: Ahmadinejad Appeals to Supreme Leader (Rafiee)
- Video and Transcript: President Obama's Speech on the Mosque at Ground Zero
- Iran Latest (15 August): Revolutionary Guards' "Election Tape"
- Turkey Inside Line: Ankara's Ramadan Message to Israel, Chemical Weapons against Kurds, Relations with Iran, and Turkey's Gaza Probe
- Iran Feature: Two Faces of Modernity (Vahdat)
- China This Week: Deadly Mudslides, Pollution Crackdown, Nuclear Weapons Promise
- The Latest from Iran (14 August): Returning to the Streets?
- Iran Analysis: Fall of the Islamic Republic, Pros and Cons (Mohammadi)
- Israel-Palestine Analysis: Washington's New Push for an Agreement
- Greece: The Economic Crisis Continues (Christodoulou)
- The Latest from Iran (13 August): Letters to the Judiciary
- Iran's Nukes: The CIA's Latest Analysis (Thielmann)
- Israel: The "Demolition" of a Bedouin Village (Blumenthal)
- The Latest from Iran (12 August): Prisoners, Confessions, and the "War Diversion"
- Iran-Israel-US: Goldberg Journalism "If You Build This War, It Will Come"
- Iran: Adultery, Stoning, and Sakineh's TV "Confession"
- Iran Feature: Has the Revolutionary Guard Admitted that Presidential Vote was a Fraud? (Sahimi)
- MENA House: Ramadan Begins and Food Prices Soar
- The Latest from Iran (11 August): Coded Messages
- Iran: Want to Notice the Uprising? Look to and beyond the Prison Cells (Shahryar)
- Iran Document: Mousavi on "Constitutional Monarchy" Movement
- Iran: Rafsanjani's Coded Call for Removal of Ahmadinejad? (Iran Dispatch)
- Gaza Latest (11 August): Barak v. the PM, Turkey's Response to Netanyahu, Israel's "No" to the UN and More
- Iran Document: The Letter from the Hunger Strikers in Evin Prison
- The Latest from Iran (10 August): An End to the Hunger Strike?
- Iran: Proof of Revolutionary Guard Interference in the 2009 Election? (Aramesh)
- Iran Witness: Talking to Ahmadinejad...and the Opposition (Anderson)
- China Economy Weekly: Monetary Policy; Manufacturing Shifts; Energy Use
- US Politics and Media: Why Glenn Beck Is Good for America (Haddigan)
- MENA House: Egypt wins the Robocup (Robot Soccer World Cup) 2010
- Iran: Open Thread for News and Analysis (Monday 9 August)
- The Latest from Iran (9 August): Another Larijani Challenges Ahmadinejad
- US-Iran: Strikes, Sanctions and Scapegoats (Sick)
- Gaza Latest: Mariam to Sail to Gaza?, Israel Sends Ships to Turkey and More Flotillas on the Way?
- US v. Britain: History, Education, and "Big Ideas" in Politics (Haddigan)
- China This Week: Rain-triggered Floods; South China Sea Issues; PLA Air Defense Drills; Sino-Latin America Ties
- EA on the Road: It's Summer Break
- The Latest from Iran (8 August): Small Breakthroughs?
- Hamas Watch: Rockets, Gaza's Power Plant Closed, and A Secret Meeting with Israel?
- Iran: HoloCartoons and Ahmadinejad on Jews from the Holocaust to 9/11
- Sunday Video Fun: It's Not New York, It's Newport (Wales)
- Pakistan: A Growing Friendship with Beijing? (Raaff)
- From Egypt to Iran: How Social Media is Significant (Eltahawy, Siavashi, Fartashphoto)
- The Latest from Iran (7 August): The President's Man in Trouble?
- UPDATED Iran-US Special: The 4-Step Collapse of Obama's "Engagement" Into Confusion
- War on Terror: How the US Avoided the Law and Hid Its Detainees (Apuzzo/Goldman)
- Iran: A Protest in Washington (Shahryar)
- US Politics & Fun: Glenn Beck Foreshadowed...in the 1994 Comedy of "Kids in the Hall"
- The Latest from Iran (6 August): The Campaign Against Ahmadinejad's Aide
- Afghanistan, the US Military, & Wikileaks: The Blood of Civilians (Engelhardt)
- US Politics: Elena Kagan Confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (Haddigan)
- Iraq: Obama's Secret Letter to Ayatollah Sistani (Slavin)
- US Politics: Scott Lucas with BBC on California Same-Sex Marriage
- The Latest from Iran (5 August): Challenges
- UPDATED Iran-US Special: Obama Extends His Hand "Engagement, Not Conflict"
- UPDATED Iran Special: Grenade Attack on Ahmadinejad?
- Lebanon-Israel Update: UN Support for West Jerusalem; Washington's Dilemma over Beirut
- Iraq: Beyond the US Occupation/Withdrawal --- The Failure of Power (Myers)
- Iran Feature: Free Speech (and Some Laughs) in the Theatre (Tehran Bureau)
- Iraq and Iran: Has Ayatollah Sistani Challenged the Supreme Leader's Authority? (Nafisi)
- The Latest from Iran (4 August): The President and The Plots
- Middle East Inside Line: Israel's Lebanon Message, Hezbollah's Response, Livni Challenges Netanyahu
- US Politics: The Mosque at "Ground Zero" --- "Mutual Respect & Tolerance" (Bloomberg)
- Iran Feature: The Activism of the Women's Movement (Mouri)
- Gaza Latest: Why Israel Is Welcoming the UN Enquiry
- MENA House: Rockets on Jordan and Israel; Lebanon-Israel Clash --- UPDATES
- China Special: Beijing's Diplomatic Offensive for Economic Growth
- The Latest from Iran (3 August): Explosive Words
- UPDATED Israel-Lebanon: Border Clash Kills At Least 4 Soldiers, Journalist (Al Jazeera)
- Iran Analysis: Saharkhiz & Abtahi Dent the Government's "Fear Factor" (Shahryar)
- Video & Analysis: Obama "Iraq Withdrawal" Speech Covers Up Shift on Afghanistan
- Iran Feature: Did Ahmadinejad Chief of Staff Reveal the Bomb?
- MENA House: "Iranian" Rockets Used in Attacks on Israel and Jordan
- Israel-Palestine Analysis: Who Wants A One-State Solution?
- The Latest from Iran (2 August): The Campaign Against Jannati
- Honduras: Did Obama Administration Turn Its Back on Democracy? (Engler)
- Israel-Palestine: A Secret Deal to Start Direct Talks?
- UPDATED Middle East Inside Line: Rockets Hit Eilat, Iran Responds to "US War Plan", US $ for Israel Missile Defence
- Iran: Secularists, Reformists, and "Green Movement or Green Revolution?" (Mohammadi)
- MENA House: From Saving Energy to an Egyptian Blackout
- Video & Transcript: US Military Chief Mike Mullen on Wikileaks, Afghanistan-Pakistan, & Iran
- Iran Analysis: Hyping the War Chatter --- US Military Chief Mike Mullen Speaks
- The Latest from Iran (1 August): Pressure on Ahmadinejad & Khamenei
- Afghanistan: Deeper into Stalemate? (Randall/Owen)
- China’s Economy This Week: Currency Pressure Eases; Growth Slows; Development in West