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Jim Lobe

American journalist and the Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service.

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Is Dempsey muscle forcing Israeli rethink?

by Gareth Porter, Jim Lobe

6 September 2012

Military muscle, in the shape of US General Martin Dempsey, has given the White House more traction to distance itself from Israel’s warlike stance on Iran. The warning that the US won’t back a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and a Republican refusal to place Iran near the center of its (…)

US: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Greatest Threat of All?

by Jim Lobe

12 May 2009

Two major events over the past week in Washington - the AIPAC conference and the visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari - crystallized the ongoing tug of war for predominance over the Obama Administration’s foreign policy agenda. Simply put, the (…)

Nuclear Pact with India Seen as Surrender

by Jim Lobe

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 March 2006

While U.S. President George W. Bush hailed Thursday’s nuclear accord with India as a major breakthrough in forging a "strategic partnership" with the South Asian giant, the pact has been broadly denounced by non-proliferation experts here as a devil’s bargain.

Washington Focuses on Cuba-Venezuela ’Axis of Evil’

by Jim Lobe

Caracas (Venezuela) | 30 March 2005

While U.S. President George W. Bush played nice to a deeply frustrated Mexican President Vicente Fox at the North American Summit in Texas Wednesday, U.S. media attention was focused more on Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s efforts to sound the alarm against Latin American troublemakers in his (…)