Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa awakens to “find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin” — a […]
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Qaddafi invokes Phony Al-Qaeda Threat as he Massacres Protesters
Muammar Qaddafi continued to be little more on Thursday than the mayor of Tripoli, but he bared his fangs with murderous attacks on protesters in […]
Clueless in the District of Columbia (Engelhardt)
I was thinking that in light of the labor and youth revolutions of 2011, Washington’s focus on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the past […]
90% of Libya in Rebel Hands
The LAT reports that the rebellion against Muammar Qaddafi’s 41-year dictatorship in Libya headed toward an end-game on Wednesday, as Misurata, the country’s third-largest city […]
30% of Libya in Hands of Youth Movement
If we begin at the eastern border of Libya with Egypt this morning and move west, we find the country is now divided in two, […]
Qaddafi’s Bombardments Recall Mussolini’s
The strafing and bombardment in Tripoli of civilian demonstrators by Muammar Qaddafi’s fighter jets on Monday powerfully recalled the tactics of some decades ago of […]
The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli
I am watching Aljazeera Arabic, which is calling people in Tripoli on the telephone and asking them what is going on in the capital. The […]
Revolutionary Situation in Libya
After the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi fell to the protest movement on Sunday, clashes broke out in the Libyan capital of Tripoli late that […]
Alimagham: What Egypt & Tunisia Tell us About Iran
Pouya Alimagham writes in a guest column for Informed Comment What the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions Tell Us about Iran There has been much debate […]
Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests
5. Dear right wing blogosphere and also Bill Maher: You can’t generalize about women’s position in Muslim countries based on a reprehensible mob attack on […]
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