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Saturday, July 31, 2010   9:31 GMT

Stories by Jim Lobe

A proud native of Seattle, Washington, Jim Lobe received a university degree with highest honours in history at Williams College and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law). He joined IPS in 1979 and opened its Washington, D.C. bureau in 1980, and won the IPS Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism in 2003 and 2004. Lobe has worked for IPS from Washington for most of the past 23 years.


HONDURAS
Rights Situation Deteriorates
by Jim Lobe*
Six months after the inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo, the human rights situation in Honduras continues to deteriorate, according to two major New York-based groups.

US
Court Blocks Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Law
by Jim Lobe
In a legal victory for the administration of President Barack Obama, a federal court Wednesday temporarily blocked the implementation of key provisions of a controversial Arizona immigration law that was to take effect Thursday.


Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Increasingly Under Siege
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
Monday's release by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of classified documents detailing the travails of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Pakistan's secret support for the Taliban from 2004 through 2009 comes amid a growing crisis of confidence here in the nearly nine-year-old war.

US/INDONESIA
Resumption of Special Forces Training Denounced
by Jim Lobe*
Thursday's announcement in Jakarta that Washington will resume training for the Indonesian military's controversial Special Forces unit (Kopassus) has been denounced by human rights groups and two key lawmakers here.

MIDEAST
Israel's Next War Could Be Lebanon: Analyst
by Jim Lobe*
While speculation over a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities intensifies, at least one influential analyst here is calling on Washington to focus more on the likelihood of a new war breaking out between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and how to prevent or contain it.

US-IRAN
Mosque Blasts Denounced by Obama, Clinton
by Jim Lobe
Both U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday denounced Thursday's suicide bomb attacks on a Shi'ite mosque in Sistan-va Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran by a Sunni extremist group that Tehran charges is being supported by Washington.


Civil Society Hails New Oil and Mining Transparency Standards
by Jim Lobe*
National and international civil society groups Thursday hailed the U.S. Senate's passage of a major financial reform act that includes a key anti-corruption provision requiring energy and mining companies to publicly disclose payments they make to governments around the world.


Obama Says U.S. Will "Redouble" Efforts Against Al-Shabaab
by Jim Lobe*
U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington will &com;redouble&com; its efforts against the Somali Islamist group al- Shabaab (The Youth), whose deadly bombings in Kampala Sunday are likely to result in stepped-up U.S. military and other assistance to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu.


Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
&com;From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August,&com; explained then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card back in September 2002, in answer to queries about why the administration of George W. Bush had not launched its campaign to rally public opinion behind invading Iraq earlier in the summer.

US-CUBA
Clinton "Encouraged" by Prisoner Accord
by Jim Lobe*
In the most positive U.S. statement on developments in Cuba in recent memory, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday said the reported agreement between President Raul Castro and the Cuban Catholic Church regarding the release of 52 political prisoners was &com;very welcome&com;.
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