November 5, 2008
Despite the clear evidence provided by the Iraq adventure and its fallout of the limits of American power in the Middle East, the new president will assume control of the world’s only superpower, with the global ambitions and huge military budget to match. This ensures that American policy will co...
go to article »November 4, 2008
The American Southern Lebanese whose families were victims of the American bombs in the Lebanon July 2006 war are voting for Obama. Even the Christian Southern Lebanese Americans who are republicans will vote for Obama because they believe McCain will drag the world in to war Source : http://www.al...
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Let’s assume for a second that Barack Obama wins tomorrow’s election. I’m not going out on a limb with that one. But what kind of policy can we expect from him regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? That kind of prognostication gets into tougher territory. But before we ...
go to article »October 30, 2008
Author and former CIA case officer Robert Baer said in an interview published Wednesday that the main problem with Iran is not its nuclear project but its imperial aspirations. According to Baer, Iran has used an “anti-colonial” message to make itself more popular in the region. The Mull...
go to article »October 12, 2008
According to the article from The Age below, it does.My attention has been drawn from the natural instability and bombings in Lebanon and Syria to the global phenomenon emanating from Wall Street.America is collapsing.Bloggers, journalists, academics, politicians, diplomats, business leaders, jihadi...
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First Afghanistan and Iraq, then the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon, and now Georgia. The Bush administration's goal to bring democracy to troubled regions has been torn to bits.Russia's ferocious drive to obliterate a US proxy in Georgia is the last pin pulled on Bush's democratic dream.Whethe...
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Change? Where?The tight race for US president has mainly been dominated by the theme of change. The battle for the White House has now become a squabble between the two candidates for who will have the means and capacity to truly change the face of America.Indeed, having a black candidate for the fi...
go to article »October 10, 2008
Along with much of the population of Lebanon, not to mention Syria, Palestine, and probably a good chunk of Iran, we have been hooting at Joseph Biden’s inadvertent conflation of Hizbullah and Syria during last night’s vice-presidential debate. For those of you who missed it, here are his...
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Tony Bey, from Lebanon, reports that two missing American journalists have been found - detained in Syria. ...
go to article »October 8, 2008
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