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Top 5 Foreign Policy Challenges for US, 2012
My list of challenges last year this time more or less nailed it, especially my concerns about the Mubarak era ending in Egypt. Many of […]
On the end of Newt Gingrich’s Campaign
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” – François de La Rochefoucauld (d. 1680)
Iraqis Celebrate being Free of US Troops, Fear US Meddling
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq held a rally in a sports stadium on Saturday to celebrate Iraq being free of US troops. He declared […]
New Year’s 2012 in Tahrir Square, Egypt
New Year’s in Tahrir Square, Cairo: The leftist crowd begins by singing the national anthem. Then a woman revolutionary calls out, “Bread, Freedom and social […]
New Year’s in Dubai 2012
New Year’s in Dubai
2011: End of US Hyperpower & its War with Islamdom
Some years are pivotal and serve to mark off eras of history. 2011 saw the end of American hyperpower, and it announced the end of […]
Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011
1. The upheavals of 2011 were provoked by the Bush administration’s overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq Bzzt! Wrong answer. None of the young people […]
Gascoigne: Syria, the Invisible Massacre
Martin Gascoigne writes in a guest essay for Informed Comment The ongoing conflict in Syria, in a year of tremulous conflict across the region and […]
Egyptian Blogger-Activist Alaa on Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman interviews Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was recently released from jail, on Democracy Now! @Alaa is a renowned leftist blogger […]
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