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Politics/LawJune 23, 2009

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

For Obama to steer us back to the softer side of Empire, withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan (and negotiating with Iran), he’ll have to overrule his key officials, Hillary Clinton and Dennis Ross, risk alienating Israel for its own good, and stand up to bracing public attacks. And he’ll need a hand from a strong, anti-imperial religious and secular peace movement.

It’s Hard to be a Jew

By Ira Chernus

A scholar of nonviolence shares his struggle with Jewish identity during a time of escalating conflict and violence in Israel.

Terminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities

By Louis A. Ruprecht

We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit.