Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Member Profile

Total number of comments: 3 (since 2013-11-28 16:54:07)

troutsky

Showing comments 3 - 1
Page: 1

  • The UN to the Rescue in Libya: Is it too Late?
    • troutsky 03/18/2011 at 12:22 am with 1 replies

      This is a game of chess. There are many who were Qaddafi loyalists yesterday who won't be tomorrow morning. This action ( and a few well placed bribes) will make for some quick democrats AND send a signal to Yemen and Saudi Arabia that it is time for a change. Did anyone notice Clinton in Liberation Square today?

      Just as in the West, oil, "democracy" and capitalism will go hand in hand as long as you don't want collective bargaining.

  • Wael Ghonim vs. Barack Obama: Change we Can Believe in, Yes we Can
    • David Jones 02/10/2011 at 11:23 pm

      Obama supporting the coup in Honduras was the first clue about "little people". And backing away from EFCA. And hiring Arnie Duncan. And on and on and on.

      But don't mourn, organize.(not for elections)

  • Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu
    • troutsky 02/03/2011 at 1:31 pm

      The newly installed VP Suleiman just spent thirty minutes on state TV spinning an elaborate web for Obama administration. "Blowback" is practically a physical law and so it is nice to have Prof. Cole's ability to interrogate history to see where it originates.

      As for the last commentors view that "the dishonesty of US foreign policy is out in the open", it is hardly a new or sudden event.They really have not worried about covering anything for a long time now. The revolution will not be televised.

      check out aljazeera coverage.

Showing comments 3 - 1
Page: 1

Tweet
Share
Reddit
Email

Primary Sidebar

Support Independent Journalism

Click here to donate via PayPal.

Personal checks should be made out to Juan Cole and sent to me at:

Juan Cole
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
USA
(Remember, make the checks out to “Juan Cole” or they can’t be cashed)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.
Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial."
To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter.

Social Media

Bluesky | Instagram

Popular

  • Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump
  • War Criminal Netanyahu nominates Felon Trump for the Nobel Prize
  • Why Faith Leaders are standing up to the Largest pro-Israel Christian Lobby
  • Albanese Sanctions: Marco Rubio now Acting just Like Putin, Charging Human Rights Officials
  • In Too Much of the US, Israel's Gaza Genocide Has Been Made Invisible

Gaza Yet Stands


Juan Cole's New Ebook at Amazon. Click Here to Buy
__________________________

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires



Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat.
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved