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Archives for December 2011

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Life and Death of American Drones

Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Life and Death of American Drones

Juan Cole

The drone had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong…

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Iraq on the Brink: Court Forbids VP al-Hashimi from Leaving Country

Iraq on the Brink: Court Forbids VP al-Hashimi from Leaving Country

Juan Cole

The Iraqi equivalent of the supreme court issued an order Monday forbidding Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi from leaving Iraq, according to al-Hayat writing in Arabic. The order came on the heels of the issuance of a warrant against him, accusing the Sunni Arab politician of involvement in a bomb plot in the Green Zone aimed […]

Egypt
Egyptian Protesters Demand Military Step Down in Wake of Blue Bra Beating

Egyptian Protesters Demand Military Step Down in Wake of Blue Bra Beating

Juan Cole

Demonstrations and clashes continued in downtown Cairo for the third day on Sunday, as protesters rallied against the police crackdown on Saturday, which entailed use of live ammunition and left 10 dead of 500 wounded. They demanded that the Egyptian military immediately step down, and continued to reject the appointment of a Mubarak-era prime minister, […]

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Restless Planet

Tom Engelhardt

On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!”  Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists, politicians, military officials, bankers, artists, all the important and attended …

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Iraq’s al-Maliki Seeks Arrest of Sunni VP as Terrorist, Parliament in Uproar

Iraq’s al-Maliki Seeks Arrest of Sunni VP as Terrorist, Parliament in Uproar

Juan Cole

Only a couple days after US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta declared the Iraq War over and turned the last US base in Iraq over to the Iraqi military, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has struck against a Sunni Arab vice President, Tariq al-Hashimi. Iraqi police have issued an arrest warrant for Hashimi, a member […]

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Tunisia
One year on-- Mohamed Bouazizi's Sacrifice

One year on– Mohamed Bouazizi’s Sacrifice

Juan Cole

Aljazeera English on the one-year anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia– an act of despair that sparked the Arab upheavals of 2011: In Sidi Bouzid today, people were outting up banners in his honor. See also the retrospective by AFP: Russia Today also covers the anniversary and continued Tunisian […]

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Obama/ Maliki Conflicts on the Future of Iraq

Obama/ Maliki Conflicts on the Future of Iraq

Juan Cole

Al-Sharq al-Awsat carried an article on December 15 about the behind the scenes conflicts between US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. My guess is that a Maliki staffer leaked these conflicts. The piece was translated by the USG Open Source Center and I’m using their rendering when quoting in English below. […]

Iraq War
No War Crimes Trial for Bush/Cheney, While Chirac Convicted on minor Fraud

No War Crimes Trial for Bush/Cheney, While Chirac Convicted on minor Fraud

Juan Cole

The United States is now officially more corrupt than the Old World. Former French president Jacques Chirac has been found guilty of corruption when he was mayor of Paris in the early 1990s (he allegedly paid his own party workers for jobs that did not exist). He was given a two-year suspended sentence. George W. […]

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