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December 10, 2007
Vol. 2, No. 50
John Feffer

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by JOHN FEFFER | Monday, December 10, 2007
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Carah Ong, “New Intelligence Estimate Calls for Credible Diplomatic Option,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4789); The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran challenges the Bush administration's rhetoric on a possible WWIII in Iran.

Tim Shorrock, “Revisiting Intelligence Reform,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4795); Congress and the next president must take U.S. intelligence agencies away from the Pentagon and put them under civilian control.

Michael T. Klare, “Iraq and Global Warming,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4800); The Iraq War's legacy will be the abject failure to address the catastrophe of climate change that is approaching at a terrifying pace.

Stephen Zunes, “The Failure of Annapolis,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4787); Why there is little reason to expect that the recent summit will move the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward.

Joseph Gerson, “Empire and Nuclear Weapons,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4777); The United States has used its nuclear weapons in many ways. Like cannibalism and slavery, however, nuclear weapons can be abolished.

Daniel Millenson, “Changing the Subject,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4785); A response to Kevin Funk and Steve Fake: Divestment will help to end the genocide in Darfur.

Kevin Funk and Steve Fake, “Efficacy, Wind-Blowing, and the Favored Villain,” Foreign Policy In Focus (http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/4784); A response to Daniel Millenson: The divestment movement from Sudan still makes clear "the failures in our intellectual culture."

 

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