Stories by Dilip Hiro

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Memo to Obama: Pakistan Is Not a Client State

Posted on May 24, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com

Pakistan a far more formidable and independent force than U.S. policymakers concede publicly or even privately.

Obama's Foreign Policy Failures Are Clear Signs That the American Age of Dominance Is Ending

Posted on May 28, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

The American century is so over, baby.

Regime Change in Iran? Don't Bet on It ... Yet

Posted on Jan 16, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

Many Westerners believe the dramatic images of protesters in Iran fearlessly facing the govt.'s brutal crowd control are a preamble to revolution, but we're a long way off.

Why Obama's Grand Schemes for Iran Are Doomed to Fail

Posted on Oct 30, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com

Following the Bush pattern of expecting the leaders of Iran to do the bidding of Washington means placing a bet on the inconceivable.

Defying the Economic Odds: The World Melts Down, China Grows

Posted on May 4, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com

A new world order is emerging from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with its center gravitating towards China.

Why We Won't See Relief from the Oil Shock Any Time Soon

Posted on Jul 17, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com

The current oil shock, the fourth in the past 30-plus years and the deadliest so far, shows every sign of continuing for a long, long stretch.

How Bush's Iraq Oil-Grab Went Awry

Posted on Sep 27, 2007, Source: TomDispatch.com

Alan Greenspan's remarks in context.

The World's Sole Superpower in Fast Decline

Posted on Aug 23, 2007, Source: TomDispatch.com

In almost every measure, the United States is past its zenith. A look at the challenges that are bringing the heyday to a halt.

Sharpening Iraq's Fault Lines

Posted on Feb 17, 2005, Source: TomDispatch.com

The election has exposed and sharpened the sectarian and ethnic fault lines in Iraqi society. Meanwhile, bolstered by a popular mandate, the new government seems set on a collision course with American occupiers.

Iraq's Electoral Cul-de-sac

Posted on Jan 29, 2005, Source: TomDispatch.com

Starting with Saddam's arrest in 2003, each of Washington's rosy scenarios – in which a diminution of violence is predicted and a path to success declared – has turned to dust.

Iran's Nuclear Power Play

Posted on Dec 6, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Iran agrees to suspend its nuclear program and works out a deal with the European Union — leaving the U.S. out in the cold.

Bush's Big Stick

Posted on Nov 9, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

The ferocious assault on Fallujah is just the beginning of four more years of an re-energized Bush foreign policy. Next stop, Teheran.
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