DARFUR

Saturday, April 10, 2004 Mass murder and ethnic cleansing in western Sudan
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 Sudan: Massive Atrocities in Darfur (Human Rights Watch)
Saturday, May 8, 2004 Mass murder & ethnic cleansing escalate in western Sudan
Saturday, May 8, 2004 Naturally, Sudan has just been given a seat on the UN Human Rights Commission.
Sunday, May 16, 2004 Darfur abandoned Nick Cohen, "Human Rights on Trial" (Observer)
Thursday, May 20, 2004 Bonino & Shawcross, "Darfur's agony is world's shame"
Sunday, May 30, 2004 Sudan: "Too Little, Too Late" (Human Rights Watch)
Monday, May 31, 2004 Massive atrocity unfolding in western Sudan

Monday, June 7, 2004 Kerry on the Crisis in Darfur
Thursday, June 17, 2004 Beirut Daily Star - Editorial - A Word of Advice on Darfur for the Arab Body Politic
Thursday, July 1, 2004 Sudan - Stop the Atrocity
Friday, July 2, 2004 Help stop genocide in Sudan (MoveOn.org)
Saturday, July 10, 2004 Sudanese tell of mass rape (BBC News)
Saturday, July 10, 2004 France Opposes UN Sudan Sanctions (BBC News)
Friday, July 23, 2004 US House of Representatives Calls Darfur 'genocide' (BBC News)
Friday, July 23, 2004 Darfur - urgency & inaction (Washington Post)
Friday, July 23, 2004 African-American political figures protest Darfur atrocity
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Sudan - Talking points that suggest a line of action (Passion of the Present)
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Peter Verney, "Darfur's Manmade Disaster" (Middle East Report Online)
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Darfur: All they are saying is, "give genocide a chance" (Ami Isseroff)
Thursday, July 29, 2004 The African Union ...

Monday, August 9, 2004 Sudan Can't Wait (Economist)
Monday, August 9, 2004 Alex de Waal, "Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap" (LRB)
Monday, August 9, 2004 Lee Smith on political Islam in Sudan (Slate)
Tuesday, August 10, 2004 "Always Again - Sudan" (Norman Geras)
Monday, August 16, 2004 Darfur - How a Tragedy Became a Cause (Washington Post)
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Howard Dean on Darfur
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 Countdown on Darfur (Washington Post)
Thursday, August 26, 2004 José Ramos Horta, "Silence in the Face of Genocide (Melbourne Age)
Thursday, August 26, 2004 Stop the Genocide - Rally for Darfur (Norman Geras)
Saturday, August 28, 2004 Johann Hari - Atrocity fatigue and moral failure on Darfur (Independent)

Saturday, September 11, 2004 Nicholas Kristof, "Reign of Terror" (NYTimes)
Saturday, September 11, 2004 re: "A Darfur Thought" by Matt Yglesias

Thursday, September 30, 2004 Julie Flint - Darfur & the Insecurity Council (Beirut Daily Star)
Monday, October 4, 2004 Himmler's Poznan speech - October 4, 1943
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Roméo Dallaire, "Looking at Darfur, Seeing Rwanda" (New York Times)
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Philip Gourevitch - French Actions in Rwanda
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Darfur update - "Financing Mass Murder" by Nat Hentoff (Village Voice)

Saturday, November 20, 2004 Darfur - the atrocity continues
Saturday, November 20, 2004 CARE & Amnesty International on Darfur
Sunday, December 19, 2004 "Humanitarianism" & "realism" in Darfur
Monday, December 20, 2004 Tom Lantos - Darfur crisis: What are we waiting for? (Miami Herald)
Monday, December 20, 2004 Darfur - Where Is Europe? (Washington Post)
Monday, December 20, 2004 Darfur - "Rwanda in Slow Motion" (Eric Reeves)
Monday, December 20, 2004 Eric Reeves - Darfur Mortality Update (12/12/2004)
Thursday, December 23, 2004 Darfur - "Who Will Save the Children Now?" (Scotsman)

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Resort to the G Word Takes Place of Action in Darfur (Financial Times)
Thursday, January 27, 2005 Darfur - The world still does nothing (Eric Reeves)

Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Darfur - Mass murder continues unchecked (Daily Telegraph)
Thursday, February 24, 2005 Nicholas Kristof - Does mass murder in Darfur upset anyone? (NYTimes)

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 What you can do about Darfur (Harry's Place)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Remember Darfur ?
Saturday, April 23, 2005 UN body fails to condemn Sudan (BBC News)

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Howard Dean - Europe should act on Darfur

Friday, July 8, 2005 Nat Hentoff on Darfur - What are we waiting for? (Village Voice)
Thursday, August 18, 2005 Darfur - "Arabian Shame" (Sudan Tribune)
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 The Closed Door in Darfur (Norman Geras)

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Moving toward a Final Solution in Darfur (Eric Reeves)

Tuesday, November 8, 2005 "Realism" triumphs in Darfur (Christopher Hitchens)

Monday, November 14, 2005 (Sunday, May 2, 1999) Susan Sontag - "Why Are We In Kosovo?" (1999)

Sunday, November 20, 2005 Ghosts of Rwanda - The international abandonment of Darfur (Eric Reeves)

Monday, December 12, 2005 Darfur Betrayed - The AU Summit in Khartoum (Eric Reeves)
Saturday, December 17, 2005 Khartoum Triumphant: Managing the Costs of Genocide in Darfur (Eric Reeves)
Friday, December 23, 2005 Children Within Darfur's Holocaust (Eric Reeves)
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 Obama & Brownback - "Policy Adrift on Darfur" (Washington Post)
Friday, December 30, 2005 Accessories to Genocide - African Union & Arab League (Eric Reeves)

Saturday, January 14, 2006 Khartoum Escalates Conflict in Eastern Sudan, Southern Sudan, and Darfur
Friday, January 27, 2006 Jewish Organizations Plan a Big Push Against Genocide in Darfur (Forward)

Thursday, March 2, 2006 Darfur Held Hostage (Eric Reeves)
Sunday, March 5, 2006 Darfur - A Call to Outrage (Trudy Rubin)
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 "Darfur Faces 'Perfect Storm' of Human Destruction" - Eric Reeves

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 A Darfur Mystery (Joseph Britt)
Monday, April 24, 2006 Maurice Glasman on the Darfur atrocity, warped priorities, and the "respect" scam
Monday, April 24, 2006 Bin Laden calls on Muslims to support genocidal mass murder (of Muslims) in Darfur
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Join the "virtual march" to end genocide in Darfur (Lois Dubin)
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Wole Soyinka decries lack of outrage over Darfur 'pogrom'
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Darfur catastrophe spreading to Chad (Eric Reeves)

Monday, May 1, 2006 Million Voices for Darfur - Please add your voice
Monday, May 1, 2006 Food aid for Darfur cut in half
Monday, May 1, 2006 Lunacy about Darfur (in Monthly Review)
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 A Journalist's View of the Save Darfur Rally (ABC News)
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 A report and appeal from SaveDarfur.org
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Darfur: Why Are We Muslims So Silent? (Tarek Fatah)
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Why Abuja won't save Darfur (Eric Reeves)
Friday, May 12, 2006 Darfur after Abuja (Catherine Jameson & Jan Egeland)

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 Darfur - The killing continues (Economist & Washington Post)
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Darfur update - AU "peacekeepers" can't protect anyone (Guardian)
Sunday, June 25, 2006 Darfur - Continuing betrayal and accelerating catastrophe (Eric Reeves)
Sunday, June 25, 2006 Saving Darfur - Another Zionist plot, of course (ZNN)
Monday, June 26, 2006 Darfur - "a steady drip of death" (Julie Flint & Mick Hartley)
Monday, July 10, 2006 What happened to the Genocide Convention?
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Genocide & legalism (contd.)
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 And what happened to the "responsibility to protect"? (James Smith via Norman Geras)
Monday, July 17, 2006 Darfur - Going over the edge? (James Smith & Eric Reeves)
Sunday, July 30, 2006 Whose lives count more?

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 Humanitarian assistance in Darfur "hanging by a thread" (Eric Reeves & Doctors Without Borders)
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 "Mass Murder: What Causes it? Can It be Stopped" - Some afterthoughts on the ASA forum
Thursday, August 17, 2006 Darfur - It's now or never (Eric Reeves)
Friday, August 18, 2006 "The outrage of so many outraged people outrages me" - André Glucksmann
Friday, August 18, 2006 "Why is Lebanon more important than Darfur?" (Hasdai Westbrook)
Saturday, August 19, 2006 Sociologists on Mass Murder (Butterflies & Wheels)
Monday, August 28, 2006 SAVE DARFUR Rally in New York City - September 17, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006 Darfur - Last Chance or Final Solution?
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 End Genocide in Darfur (Sen. John Edwards)

Monday, September 4, 2006 "The genocidal end-game has begun in Darfur" (Eric Reeves)
Thursday, September 7, 2006 Why Darfur was left to its pitiful fate (Gulf News)
Sunday, September 10, 2006 Darfur - Waiting for the end at "Camp Rwanda"
Thursday, September 14, 2006 Darfur - "tomorrow is too late"

Sunday, October 1, 2006 Darfur in free fall? (Eric Reeves)
Sunday, October 1, 2006 Wole Soyinka attacks the Arab League, the African Union, and the UN for complicity in the Darfur atrocity
Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Darfur - The politics of indifference (Terry Glavin)
Sunday, October 8, 2006 Darfur - A call for action from 25 human-rights & humanitarian organizations
Sunday, October 22, 2006 Darfur on '60 Minutes' This Sunday (Omer Ismail)

Thursday, November 2, 2006 The world-wide war against women continues (Bob Herbert & Amartya Sen)
Thursday, November 30, 2006 Darfur activism conference at Swarthmore (December 1-3, 2006)

Friday, December 1, 2006 Accelerating "meltdown" in Darfur (Jan Egeland, via Mick Hartley)
Sunday, December 10, 2006 How the UN lets genocidal states get away with murder (Nick Cohen)
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Europe's indifference is helping to doom Darfur (Eric Reeves)
Friday, December 15, 2006 "Yes, there really is a way to help Darfur" - An update (Pham & Krauss) and practical proposals (James Smith)
Thursday, December 21, 2006 Talking Darfur in a "Global Journalist" radio discussion
Friday, December 22, 2006 Reflections on the Darfur student activism conference at Swarthmore (Adam Lebor)
Sunday, December 24, 2006 Darfur philanthropy update

Thursday, January 25, 2007 Darfur - Escalating war against the aid workers (Newsweek)
Thursday, January 25, 2007 Genocide in Darfur - The next stage (Eric Reeves)
Monday, January 29, 2007 The AU is embarrassed by genocide - Are the rest of us?

Thursday, February 1, 2007 More Darfur spillover in eastern Chad (Amnesty International)
Monday, February 5, 2007 Propaganda from China & Khartoum -- while the Darfur atrocity continues (Eric Reeves)
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Targeted economic pressure on Khartoum CAN help Darfur (Nick Kristof)
Friday, February 16, 2007 Genocide in Darfur - The Chinese Connection
Friday, February 16, 2007 Darfur Symposium at UPenn - Thursday, March 1, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007 Darfur genocide continues spreading into Chad
Friday, February 23, 2007 US Senate interest in Darfur? - A (possible) good sign (Mark Kleiman)
Friday, February 23, 2007 Arab public opinion & mass murder in Darfur (Moataz El Fegiery & Ridwan Ziyada)
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 "Where are the cries of outrage over Darfur?" (Lebanon Daily Star)

Thursday, March 1, 2007 Coalition of genocide deniers in Khartoum
Friday, March 16, 2007 The world stands by while Darfur burns (Jonathan Freedland)
Saturday, March 17, 2007 Why does the Islamic world support the mass murder of Muslims in Darfur? (Adam LeBor)
Sunday, March 25, 2007 Slavery today (John Miller)

Monday, April 2, 2007 "The plague from Darfur" continues spreading into Chad (via Mick Hartley)
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Darfur, the UN, bureaucratic routine, & "global chaos theory at work" - Shameless complicity with mass murder continues (Adam Lebor)
Saturday, April 14, 2007 Why targeting Beijing's "Genocide Olympics" can help Darfur

Sunday, May 13, 2007 Zimbabwe to head UN Development Commission - Not a parody
Saturday, May 19, 2007 Darfur - Rape as a weapon of war (via Mick Hartley)

Monday, June 25, 2007 UN "Human Rights" update - The more things change ...

Thursday, July 19, 2007 Darfur, China, and the 2008 Olympics - The idea is to USE the Olympics, NOT to boycott them

Friday, September 14, 2007 Global Day for Darfur - Sunday, September 16

Saturday, December 1, 2007 Darfur's final chance? (Eric Reeves)
Thursday, December 20, 2007 China's role in the Darfur atrocity ... and what to do about it (Eric Reeves)

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Darfur dilemmas - An exchange with Alex de Waal
Monday, January 28, 2008 Genocide's enablers - Arab journalists confront the Arab silence on Darfur
Monday, January 28, 2008 Genocide's enablers - Why targeting China's "Genocide Olympics" can help Darfur (Nick Kristof)
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Genocide Prevention: 60 Years of Abject Failure (Eric Reeves)

Sunday, February 17, 2008 Congressman Tom Lantos, champion of human rights and human decency, dies at 80
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 World-wide war on women update - Mass rape & its consequences

Friday, March 14, 2008 Darfur's return to hell (Independent)
Sunday, March 16, 2008 Darfur - Four years and counting (Eric Reeves)
Saturday, March 22, 2008 China's role in the Darfur atrocity - Propaganda and reality (Eric Reeves)

Saturday, May 31, 2008 Clinton, McCain, & Obama: We Stand United on Darfur

Saturday, June 14, 2008 Practicality and humanitarian intervention (Norman Geras)

Friday, October 3, 2008 Palin lies again (this time about Sudan divestment)

IRAQ

Sunday, October 23, 2005 Iraqi Conundrums (2002-2003) Why I thought (and still think) that the 2003 Iraq war was necessary and justified.
Sunday, October 23, 2005 David Hirst, "Iraqis want to be rid of Saddam" (February 2003)

Saturday, November 1, 2003 Al Gore on Iraq (February 12, 2002)

Monday, March 25, 2002 Jeffrey Goldberg, "The Great Terror" (New Yorker)
Monday, March 25, 2002 Goldberg & Hirst on Iraqi Kurdistan
Monday, March 25, 2002 Iraq - and the real Cheney
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 "Reality checks" on Iraq, genocide, etc.

Sunday, July 28, 2002 Nick Cohen, "The Last Thing the US Wants is Democracy in Iraq"
Thursday, August 1, 2002 "The last thing the US wants is democracy in Iraq"

Thursday, August 1, 2002 Iraq sanctions & the moral contradictions of "anti-war" rhetoric
Friday, August 16, 2002 What do Iraqis want? (Martin Woollacott - August 2002)

Wednesday, September 25, 2002 "Baseless Comparisons": UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel

Tuesday, December 24, 2002 Edward Said tries to smear Kanan Makiya

Wednesday, February 5, 2003 Peter Galbraith on Iraqi Kurdistan
Thursday, February 13, 2003 "Ecocide as Genocide" - Saddam's campaign against the Marsh Arabs (Joseph Dellapenna)
Sunday, February 23, 2003 Why war would be justified (Economist)

Monday, March 17, 2003 Lord Goldsmith - Legal basis for use of force against Iraq
Monday, March 31, 2003 Who armed Saddam? - Some reality checks

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Iraq: phantom counterfactuals (A response to Juan Cole)

Monday, August 25, 2003 Michael Walzer on just wars, politics, & moral responsibilities (Imprints interview)
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Two Years of Gibberish" (Prospect)
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Juan Cole on the War in Iraq Two statements by Juan Cole, plus an exchange between a friend and myself.

Thursday, November 13, 2003 Juan Cole's Israel obsessions

Friday, December 5, 2003 Ayatollah Sistani on oral sex

Thursday, January 8, 2004 Juan Cole on the Iraq war (restated)

Friday, March 26, 2004 Kurds, containment, counterfactuals, etc.

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 David Aaronovitch, "The Trouble with Sontag's Story" (Guardian)

Monday, July 12, 2004 Saddam Hussein & comparative fascism

Monday, August 16, 2004 Kristof & Zakaria - getting serious about nuclear proliferation
Saturday, August 28, 2004 Sistani's triumph?

Thursday, September 9, 2004 Fareed Zakaria - The Lonesome Doves of Europe (September 2002)
Thursday, September 9, 2004 some random thoughts on "terrorism"
Monday, September 13, 2004 Juan Cole on the (Iraqi) politics of Fallujah
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Not an illegal war (Normblog)
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Karl Polanyi, Alexis de Tocqueville, & Muqtada al-Sadr

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Was there any moral case against the Iraq war? (Normblog)

Thursday, November 18, 2004 Some words of sanity on Iraq from Juan Cole

Thursday, December 2, 2004 Some Implications of the UN/Iraq Oil-for-Food Scandal (Normblog)
Friday, December 17, 2004 Juan Cole, "Iraq the Model," & Jeff Jarvis

Thursday, January 13, 2005 Juan Cole et al. - "The Third Baath Coup?"
Monday, January 17, 2005 The Iraqi elections (Normblog)
Sunday, February 13, 2005 The Election Results In Iraq (Normblog)
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 "The environmental crime of the century" - Saddam's ecocide in the Mesopotamian marshes

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Some thoughts on the terrorist strategy of the Iraqi 'insurgency' (Normblog)
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Juan Cole on the terrorist strategy of the Iraqi "insurgency"

Sunday, May 29, 2005 Abandonment of Iraq Is Wrong - Erik Gustafson

Monday, August 22, 2005 Juan Cole opposes US abandonment of Iraq
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Brendan O'Leary on the Iraqi Constitution (Normblog)
Saturday, August 27, 2005 Andrew Arato on the Iraqi constitutional breakdown
Sunday, August 28, 2005 "Letter from an Iraqi Reader" to Juan Cole

Monday, September 5, 2005 Weintraub vs. Schwartz on the Iraqi insurgency (Contexts)
Monday, September 19, 2005 George Galloway in Madison (Chad Goldberg)

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Can there be a 'historic compromise' in Arab Iraq?
Saturday, October 22, 2005 Rosenfeld & Yglesias, "The Incompetence Dodge" (American Prospect)
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Restating the moral case for the Iraq war - Thomas Cushman, ed., A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE

Sunday, November 13, 2005 Susan Sontag - "Why Are We In Kosovo?" (1999)

Monday, December 12, 2005 What are Iraqis thinking now? (BBC/ABC survey)
Thursday, December 15, 2005 Breaking the power of the assassins (Lebanon Daily Star)
Friday, December 16, 2005 An Iraq roundup from Norman Geras

Monday, December 19, 2005 "Dangerous Territory" - Paul Berman & Bob Herbert

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 A Fraudulent "Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics"
Friday, January 20, 2006 Kanan Makiya Interview (Part 1) - Putting Cruelty First

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Iraqis still think it was worth it

Sunday, March 12, 2006 The Iraq war from Saddam's perspective (NYTimes)
Monday, March 13, 2006 Black Sunday in Iraq (Juan Cole)

Sunday, April 16, 2006 Ritter vs. Ritter (Tim Blair)

Friday, May 19, 2006 Mass murder, political atrocity, & the failures of western moral imagination - "The Black Book of Saddam Hussein" (Gerard Alexander)

Saturday, June 3, 2006 Fred Halliday on internationalism & human rights (Salmagundi)
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Zarqawi's end
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who -- and what -- was Zarqawi? (Hitchens, Kaplan, & the Atlantic)
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who mourns Zarqawi? (DPA & Juan Cole)
Sunday, June 18, 2006 Occidentalism and "Anti-Imperialism" (Marko Attila Hoare & Ian Buruma)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Newsflash - Zarqawi was a US "asset" (Riverbend & Al-Ahram)
Thursday, June 22, 2006 P.S. on Riverbend and "the Iraqi puppet government"
Thursday, June 29, 2006 Who is murdering Iraqi civilians? (Norman Geras)

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 "A shameful debate" on Iraq (Trudy Rubin)
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 What will happen if the US abandons Iraq? (Trudy Rubin via Norman Geras)
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 What is Muqtada al-Sadr's game?
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Ku Klux Klan & neo-Nazis rally against Iraq war
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Kurdistan: Birth of a nation? (Patrick Cockburn)
Monday, July 10, 2006 What happened to the Genocide Convention?
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Genocide & legalism (contd.)
Monday, July 10, 2006 More bad news from Baghdad (Mark Kleiman)
Monday, July 17, 2006 Are some of Iraq's Sunni Arabs waking up to reality?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld in Iraq - "A Banana Republic Coup D'Etat" (Thomas Ricks via Belgravia Dispatch)

Saturday, August 5, 2006 Henry Farrell's correct views on war, political responsibility, & Iraq
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Fareed Zakaria & Hillary Clinton on Donald Rumsfeld
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 "Mass Murder: What Causes it? Can It be Stopped" - Some afterthoughts on the ASA forum
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Offending the right people (for the right reasons) - I agree with Noam Chomsky

Saturday, September 9, 2006 The true Iraq appeasers (Peter Galbraith)
Saturday, September 30, 2006 Bob Woodward abandons the sinking ship?

Thursday, October 5, 2006 Woodward the weather vane (Jacob Weisberg)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 A Manifesto for American Liberalism - Todd Gitlin & Bruce Ackerman

Friday, November 10, 2006 What Democrats should do now on foreign policy (Suzanne Nossel)

Friday, December 1, 2006 Iraq - Realism and "Realism" (George Packer)
Saturday, December 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006 (David Hirst)

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Zarqawi - Man of the Year for 2006? (Andrew Sullivan)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Some dissenting thoughts on Gerald Ford (Sisyphus)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Michael Young reflects on Saddam Hussein, his victims, and Arab politics (Beirut Daily Star)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Saddam's end - "Justice, but No Reckoning" (Najmaldin Karim)
Friday, January 5, 2007 Time to revive "Kurd Sellout Watch"?
Friday, January 5, 2007 Getting serious about Iraq - too late? (Juan Cole)
Monday, January 15, 2007 Some unhappy thoughts on options in Iraq (which all look scary)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans' (Guardian)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans' (Guardian)
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Inside Baghdad's civil war (contd.)
Monday, January 29, 2007 Who has been murdering Iraqi civilians? - A reminder of the obvious
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Is Saudi Arabia using the price of oil to pressure Iran?

Sunday, March 11, 2007 Panel discussion on Iraq - Saturday, March 17, 2007 (Eastern Sociological Society)

AFGHANISTAN

Monday, September 24, 2001 Michael Rubin - Why The Taliban Aren't so Tough (New Republic)
Wednesday, November 14, 2001 Afghan Surprises
Saturday, November 17, 2001 "What Now for Afghanistan" - sense & nonsense

Monday, April 1, 2002 Chris Bertram, "Afghanistan: A Just Intervention"

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Two Years of Gibberish" (Prospect)

Saturday, February 14, 2004 Ahmed Rashid, "The Mess in Afghanistan" (New York Review of Books)

Saturday, April 9, 2005 Remember Afghanistan? (Normblog)

Sunday, June 11, 2006 Metaphors from Kabul

Thursday, December 7, 2006 Afghanistan's Pakistan problem--and ours (Fareed Zakaria)
Friday, December 8, 2006 The politics of the Afghan war in western Pakistan (Graeme Smith via Terry Glavin)
Monday, December 11, 2006 Taliban & Al Qaeda consolidating control in northwest Pakistan (NYTimes)
Saturday, December 16, 2006 What's at stake in Afghanistan - "Disembowelled and murdered for teaching girls"

Monday, April 30, 2007 Infant mortality in Afghanistan

ISRAEL, JEWS, ANTI-ZIONISM, & ANTI-SEMITISM

Thursday, April 30, 1998 1948/1998 - Reflections on a half-century of Israel (April-May 1998)

Wednesday, September 26, 2001 Some overdue advice from Edward Said

Friday, April 19, 2002 There was no massacre in Jenin (Ha'aretz)
Monday, May 13, 2002 "Jeningrad" - Tom Gross on the mythical "massacre" in Jenin
Thursday, September 12, 2002 Jenin - "Massacring the truth" (Amnon Rubenstein)

Monday, June 17, 2002 Anti-semitism is back (Todd Gitlin)
Friday, June 21, 2002 Ilan Stavans on Jacobo Timerman (Forward)

Wednesday, September 25, 2002 "Baseless Comparisons": UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel

Thursday, May 15, 2003 Who Shot Mohammed Al-Dura? (James Fallows)

Monday, July 28, 2003 The Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Paula Fredriksen)

Saturday, September 20, 2003 Some thoughts on anti-Zionism & anti-semitism

Monday, October 13, 2003 Mahathir Mohamad - "Jews rule the world by proxy"
Sunday, October 26, 2003 Richard Just on Mahathir & "root causes"

Thursday, November 13, 2003 Juan Cole's Israel obsessions

Saturday, May 1, 2004 The Middle Eastern Jews & the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Saturday, June 19, 2004 The Danger of Americanism (Das Schwarze Korps, 1944)

Monday, October 4, 2004 Himmler's Poznan speech - October 4, 1943

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Michael Young - Middle East Studies in the U.S. (Reason)

Friday, April 29, 2005 Another anti-Israel boycott (Normblog)

Friday, May 13, 2005 This is a blacklist, not just a "boycott"
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 A boycott will only strengthen the Israeli right (David Newman & Benjamin Pogrund)

Friday, July 15, 2005 Theodorakis's Jewish problem (2004)

Monday, July 18, 2005 "Moderate" Muslim leaders condemn terrorism against Londoners, but not against Israelis or Iraqis (BBC News)
Friday, August 19, 2005 Condemnations of terrorism -- real and bogus

Sunday, August 21, 2005 Albert Memmi - Who is an Arab Jew? (JIMENA)

Thursday, October 6, 2005 Chamoun in 1948 - "Zionist Danger to Lebanon"
Saturday, October 8, 2005 Nick Cohen on the increasing respectability of anti-semitism (New Statesman)

Saturday, November 5, 2005 Sharon Dismantles Zionist Entity - World's Problems End

Sunday, November 13, 2005 "Massacre in Amman" - Chickens coming home to roost (Khalaf)

Friday, January 6, 2006 Spielberg, Kushner, & "Munich"
Sunday, January 8, 2006 Some Arab reaction to Sharon
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 David Hirsh & Jon Pike - Resist the politics of demonization
Thursday, January 26, 2006 Sam Fleischacker - Jewish/Muslim Studies Initiative
Friday, January 27, 2006 Uri Avnery - "Pity the Orphan"
Friday, January 27, 2006 Jewish Organizations Plan a Big Push Against Genocide in Darfur (Forward)

Friday, February 3, 2006 Hamas - Drawing the Line
Monday, February 6, 2006 Hamas Victory - the Artificial Sweep (Stuart Elliott)
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 The cartoon wars
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 Further commentaries on the cartoon wars
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 Olivier Roy on the cartoon wars
Sunday, February 12, 2006 Let's be honest about cartoons (LA Times)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Iranian expert unmasks "Tom and Jerry" as a Jewish plot

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 The murder of Ilan Halimi: Why anti-semitism is a problem
Thursday, March 9, 2006 Where did we come from?
Sunday, March 12, 2006 Israel's Tragedy Foretold (Gershom Gorenberg)
Sunday, March 12, 2006 The World According to the "Palestine Solidarity Movement" (Global Intifada)
Sunday, March 26, 2006 Mearsheimer & Walt on the Zionist Conspiracy ... with a response by Herf & Markovits
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Why Mearsheimer & Walt are wrong (continued)
Thursday, March 30, 2006 Chomsky and Massad on Mearsheimer & Walt

Thursday, April 6, 2006 Some Rebuttals to Mearsheimer & Walt's "Israel Lobby"
Friday, April 7, 2006 Stephen Zunes on Mearsheimer & Walt
Thursday, April 13, 2006 Happy Passover - "They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Now Let's Eat"
Sunday, April 16, 2006 Anti-Zionism, discrimination, and moral cowardice in soccer
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Football Killing Fields (Tom Gross)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Juan Cole on Mearsheimer & Walt
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Michael Walzer - Rich Settlers, Poor Israelis (& Political Lunacy): Stopping the Cycle
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Tony Judt on Mearsheimer & Walt
Friday, April 21, 2006 Jere Riemer on Judt's defense of M&W ... with some further thoughts of my own
Thursday, April 27, 2006 Finkelstein’s Follies: The Dangers of Vulgar Anti-Zionism (Tobias Abse)
Thursday, April 27, 2006 Juan Cole's misplaced defense of Mearsheimer & Walt
Friday, April 28, 2006 Mearsheimer & Walt - "And Now For Some Facts" (Benny Morris)
Friday, May 5, 2006 Mearsheimer & Walt respond to critics (LRB)
Saturday, May 20, 2006 Michael Massing's curious apologetics for Mearsheimer & Walt (NYR)

Monday, May 1, 2006 Lunacy about Darfur (in Monthly Review)
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 Juan Cole's Iran distortions (Christopher Hitchens)
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 Michael Young on Hitchens vs. Cole
Friday, May 5, 2006 P.S. re Cole, Hitchens, & Ahmadinejad
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Academic blacklist season again?
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Darfur: Why Are We Muslims So Silent? (Tarek Fatah)
Thursday, May 11, 2006 Academic Freedom Alert - Oppose the Blacklisting of Israeli Academics
Friday, May 12, 2006 Please write a letter to oppose possible NATFHE blacklist (StandWithUs)
Monday, May 15, 2006 David Hirsh on the NATFHE blacklist proposal
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Juan Cole condemns the proposed blacklist of Israeli academics

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 NATFHE, anti-Zionism, creationism - How long should we keep arguing with bigots? (Shalom Lappin)
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who mourns Zarqawi? (DPA & Juan Cole)
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Boycotts, blacklists, and anti-Zionist obsessions - Two thought experiments
Thursday, June 15, 2006 Götz Aly on the Holocaust and the uses of comparative analysis (via Norman Geras)
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Academic freedom alert - Petition supporting Thomas Klocek (SPME)
Friday, June 23, 2006 Presbyterians condemn terrorism & suicide bombing
Friday, June 23, 2006 The Red Cross recognizes Israel (Norman Geras & Ami Isseroff)
Saturday, June 24, 2006 Further thoughts on the Presbyterian anti-terrorism resolution (Ami Isseroff)
Sunday, June 25, 2006 Saving Darfur - Another Zionist plot, of course (ZNN)
Monday, June 26, 2006 More mysteries from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 "Can the Anti-Boycotters Please Stand Up?" - A response
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 The real story in Gaza (Ami Isseroff)

Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Rape as a "weapon of mass destruction" - Real atrocities & anti-Zionist propaganda (Engage)
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Ku Klux Klan & neo-Nazis rally against Iraq war
Sunday, July 9, 2006 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a nutshell (Doni Remba)
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 "Dear Palestinian Arab brethren": Face reality (Youssef Ibrahim)
Friday, July 14, 2006 Lebanon - "Israel's Invasion, Syria's War" (Michael Young)
Friday, July 14, 2006 How Israelis see the crisis (Shmuel Rosner)
Saturday, July 15, 2006 Chibli Mallat on the Lebanese/Israeli crisis (Lebanon Daily Star)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Chibli Mallat vs. Rami Khouri on the Lebanese/Israeli crisis (Daily Star)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Hezbollah Katyushas are aimed at Beirut and USA - via Israel (Ami Isseroff)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Some perspectives on the Middle East crisis (Norman Geras)
Sunday, July 16, 2006 The Lebanese-Israeli crisis in Al-Jazeera
Monday, July 17, 2006 The G-8 statement on the Middle East crisis
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Durkheim in Israel - war & moral integration
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Perspectives on the Middle East crisis #3 (Norman Geras)
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Lebanon/Israel - "Disproportionality" in Perspective (Stuart Elliott)
Thursday, July 20, 2006 Chibli Mallat - "A Lebanese initiative" (Bitterlemons-International)
Thursday, July 20, 2006 A historic optical illusion - Israel & the invisible Middle Eastern Jews
Friday, July 21, 2006 Perspectives on the Middle East crisis #4 (Norman Geras)
Friday, July 21, 2006 "Paradise Lost" - Robert Fisk's elegy for Beirut (Independent)
Friday, July 21, 2006 Lebanon/Israel - "Proportionality," war crimes, and international law (Doni Remba)
Saturday, July 22, 2006 Guardian or Der Sturmer? (Harry's Place)
Saturday, July 22, 2006 Israeli peace activist says the Lebanon campaign is justified (Boston Globe)
Saturday, July 22, 2006 What Hezbollah is fighting for - A reality check
Sunday, July 23, 2006 Perspectives on the Middle East crisis #5 (Norman Geras)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Jan Egeland condemns Hezbollah's war crimes
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 ... No, It's Survival (Richard Cohen)
Thursday, July 27, 2006 Nasrallah clarifies Hezbollah's perspective on the Jews
Friday, July 28, 2006 Hezbollah missiles and the IDF
Friday, July 28, 2006 Where is the Lebanese/Israeli crisis heading? - Some tentative analyses & speculations
Saturday, July 29, 2006 The dilemmas of war between Israel and Hezbollah (Shimon Zachary Klein)
Sunday, July 30, 2006 What Ahmadinejad meant
Sunday, July 30, 2006 How much damage in Beirut? (Stuart Elliott)
Sunday, July 30, 2006 American Jew-hater shoots Jews in Seattle (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Has Hezbollah overreached? (Michael Young)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Fighting Hezbollah in the worst way possible (Ami Isseroff)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Diplomacy in action (Not a parody)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Former peacekeeper Lewis McKenzie on the Israeli/Lebanese crisis (CBC)
Monday, July 31, 2006 Why bomb UN observers? (Stuart Elliott)

Tuesday, August 1, 2006 The small difference
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 Peacekeepers are not peacemakers (Nancy Soderberg) And temporary cease-fires that resolve none of the underlying problems are not the same as peace.
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Ahmadinejad - Israel's destruction is the solution (AP)
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Israel/Hezbollah - The Syrian connection (Robert Pape & G.W. Bush)
Thursday, August 3, 2006 Two shameless academic whitewashes of Hezbollah
Friday, August 4, 2006 Lebanon/Israel - Did the war make sense? (Yossi Melman & Ze'ev Sternhell)
Friday, August 4, 2006 "Systemic Failure"? - Ari Shavit on the Lebanese war (Ha'aretz)
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Numbers in Lebanon
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Joschka Fischer on the meaning & possibilities of the Israeli/Lebanese crisis
Sunday, August 6, 2006 US/Israel strategy in the Israeli/Lebanese crisis
Monday, August 7, 2006 Middle East math (via Stuart Elliott)
Monday, August 7, 2006 Hezbollah, Israel, & war crimes - Some lies & smears by Adam Shatz
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 Trad Hamadah: 'Hezbollah's weapons not sacrosanct' (Figaro)
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Cease-fire in Lebanon - "For It Before They Were Against It" (Jonathan Zasloff)
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Reasoned discourse in Britain - "We Are All Hizbullah"
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 UN "Human Rights" Council - Business as usual
Friday, August 11, 2006 "Why a Hizballah defeat is [even] more important for the US than Israel" (Henri Barkey)
Friday, August 18, 2006 "The outrage of so many outraged people outrages me" - André Glucksmann
Friday, August 18, 2006 "Why is Lebanon more important than Darfur?" (Hasdai Westbrook)
Thursday, August 24, 2006 Lebanese Prime Minister - Hezbollah can't do it again & We should make peace with Israel
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Truth in labeling from the "peace" movement?
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Offending the right people (for the right reasons) - I agree with Noam Chomsky
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 My BBC Persian Service interview on Mearsheimer & Walt's "Israel Lobby" manifesto
Thursday, August 31, 2006 Lebanese ambivalence - A week with Fuad Siniora

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 What Ahmadinejad means (once again)
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Britain - "Attacks on Jews soar since Lebanon" (London Times)
Saturday, September 9, 2006 More signs of the times in Europe (via Normblog)
Sunday, September 10, 2006 Fred Halliday - "The Left and Jihad" (openDemocracy)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Update on the "freedom of expression and tolerance" front
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Antisemitism is Back - Denis MacShane, MP

Friday, November 10, 2006 Ellen Willis, democratic socialist and anti-anti-Zionist, 1941-2006

Saturday, December 9, 2006 Irwin Cotler defends Salah Choudhury (Statement to the Canadian Parliament)
Saturday, December 9, 2006 Irwin Cotler Joins Shoaib Choudhury's Defence (Terry Glavin)
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Al Jazeera's Editor-in-Chief on the root causes of the Middle East's problems
Thursday, December 14, 2006 Holocaust Denial Is No Joke (Anne Applebaum)
Saturday, December 16, 2006 "Why are so many people unhinged these days?"
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Irwin Cotler: "Courageous Bangladeshi journalist" Salah Choudhury deserves our support (Montreal Gazette)

Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Breaking news from Iran - "Hitler was Jewish"
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 George Washington's Letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 "True heroics" in the cause of freedom (Montreal Suburban)
Saturday, January 6, 2007 PBS documentary, Monday 1/8 - Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
Monday, January 8, 2007 Building bridges in the Middle East (contd.)
Monday, January 15, 2007 Kirchner boycotts Ahmadinejad (Harry's Place)
Monday, January 22, 2007 Iranians against the lie (via Normblog)
Monday, January 22, 2007 "The second holocaust will not be like the first" (Benny Morris)
Thursday, January 25, 2007 David Hirsh on the increasing respectability of anti-semitism & anti-Zionism

Friday, February 9, 2007 Continuing normalization of anti-semitic imagery - A cartoon roundup from Iran
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Andy Markovits - "Western Europe's America Problem"
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 "Blame America . . . and oh yeah, the Jews" - Review of Markovits on European anti-Americanism (Jeffrey Kopstein)
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 "Bashing Goliath" - Another good review of Markovits on European anti-Americanism (American Prospect)

Sunday, March 4, 2007 Please sign this petition in support of Salah Choudhury

Monday, June 25, 2007 UN "Human Rights" update - The more things change ...
Monday, June 25, 2007 UN "Human Rights Travesty" (Irwin Cotler)

Monday, July 9, 2007 A call to oppose academic blacklists & express solidarity with Israeli academics

Friday, August 10, 2007 The ASA Council Should Condemn Academic Blacklists and Boycotts - An open letter from Chad Goldberg

Monday, October 29, 2007 Walter Russell Mead on Mearsheimer & Walt, academic freedom, and the Zionist specter