Posted on Mon, August 15, 2011 at 23:33 pm CEST
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Syria’s Revolution: A Bloodbath the West Cannot Ignore

There’s a real war going on with real massive human rights’ violations, real massacres, and real alternatives at stake… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Human Rights • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, August 13, 2011 at 22:47 pm CEST
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Obama and Erdogan grant Assad 15 days to finish Syrian Uprising

Thursday night, Aug. 11, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to set Syrian… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Human Rights • Syrian Revolution • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, August 5, 2011 at 22:20 pm CEST
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Obama’s Only Policy

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has explained repeatedly over the years that Israel has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with… Continue reading

Topics: Israel • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, August 5, 2011 at 00:30 am CEST
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Syria: The Orontes River runs red

Horrifying images of bodies and limbs floating in the Orontes River in Hama were aired by Syrian state television early Thursday… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Human Rights • Syria • Syrian Revolution • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, August 2, 2011 at 21:40 pm CEST
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Revolutionary Guards weekly issues warning to Turkey: if forced to choose, Iran will prefer Syria over Turkey

Sobh-e Sadegh, a weekly published on behalf of the Revolutionary Guards, warned Turkey that, if its current hostile stance towards Syria persists… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Syria • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, July 31, 2011 at 00:04 am CEST
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Getting Serious in Syria

Every day there are massive demonstrations, shootings, and defections of soldiers in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, July 30, 2011 at 00:20 am CEST
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A Day in the Life of the Middle East: Egypt, Islamist Terrorism, Libya, Turkey

Where’s the outrage? Where’s the policy shift?… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • Egypt • Islamic Terrorism • Libya • Norway • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, July 23, 2011 at 21:45 pm CEST
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Fouad Ajami: A Genuine Arab Hero

Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero; Fouad Ajami isn’t… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • Arab Spring • Democracy • Economy • Egypt • Islamic Countries • Libya • Syria • Yemen 
Posted on Fri, July 22, 2011 at 23:12 pm CEST
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Syria: New Phase, How Long Will the Assad Regime Last?

The new line of discussion on Syria is not whether the regime of President (dictator) Bashar al-Assad will survive… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, July 12, 2011 at 00:02 am CEST
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Syrian Revolutionary Song Says It All

Wow, watch the less-than-four-minute video below and you get the flavor of the Middle East and the “Arab Spring” in every respect… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, June 30, 2011 at 22:55 pm CEST
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Another ticking bomb under Assad: Hariri “Special Tribunal for Lebanon” heads for Damascus

The Lebanese capital was not the only first stop for a delegation of the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • International Law • Lebanon • Religious Terrorism • Syria • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, June 25, 2011 at 13:06 pm CEST
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Turkey renews strategic ties with Israel ahead of showdown with Syria

After more than a year of strained relations, Turkey has decided to restore military and intelligence collaboration in the eastern Mediterranean with Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Hamas • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Syria • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, June 19, 2011 at 11:05 am CEST
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Syria: Dissidents Unite to Oust Assad

Twenty years ago, I was a school kid chanting with my peers, “Our leader forever, the father, Hafez Assad!” Back then, I could not have imagined… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Fri, June 17, 2011 at 18:52 pm CEST
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Lebanon’s Radical pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian New Government

After five months of political stagnation, Lebanon has a new government… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Iran • Islamism • Lebanon • Syria • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, June 12, 2011 at 22:27 pm CEST
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Is the Battle of Jisr a-Shughour the tipping-point of the uprising against Bashar Assad?

It took Syrian president six days to send troops and tanks to punish the small northern town of Jisr a-Shughour near the Turkish border… Continue reading

Topics: Muslim Brotherhood • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syria • Syrian Revolution • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, June 12, 2011 at 11:33 am CEST
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Syrian Regime Flak Calls for Mass Murder; West Does Nothing

Here is the real Middle East not the Fantasyland of the Obama Administration about President Bashar al-Asad as a reformer or… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Libya War • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, June 10, 2011 at 02:05 am CEST
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Moscow opposes Western anti-Syrian motions because of Tripoli bombing

Russia is opposed to any UN Security Council resolution on Syria,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told journalists… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • France • Libya War • NATO • Russian Federation • Syria 
Posted on Thu, June 2, 2011 at 00:29 am CEST
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Syria: Are all dictators created equal?

The sharp dichotomy in America’s approach to bad guys is not merely intellectually inconsistent, it is muddled thinking… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Human Rights • International Law • Libya War • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, June 1, 2011 at 23:25 pm CEST
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Syria: Shattered Humanity inside Syria’s Security Apparatus

The young man was dangling upside down, white, foaming saliva dripping from his mouth… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Human Rights • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Mon, May 30, 2011 at 00:33 am CEST
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The Key to Obama’s Foreign Policy: The World Turned Upside Down

I think I’ve made a breakthrough in understanding President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of punishing friends, rewarding enemies, and… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America • Western Culture 
Posted on Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:44 am CEST
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Syria Murders Hundreds; “Pro-‘Arab Spring'” West Yawns or Supports Syrian Regime

The situation in Syria is terrible. Hundreds of people have been shot; others arrested and tortured… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Human Rights • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:43 am CEST
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President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa Speech, May 19, 2011

Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamic Countries • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Maghreb • Palestinian Authority • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, May 12, 2011 at 19:34 pm CEST
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Great Moments in American Diplomacy: Getting Killer Dictators to Have An “Alternative Vision” of Themselves

I don’t have to write anything to make fun of current U.S. Middle East policy. All I have to do is quote administration officials… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 20:00 pm CEST
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U.S. Middle East Policy Becomes Clinically Insane

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest pronouncements are just plain horrifying. Consider what she said… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Hamas • Muslim Brotherhood • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:33 pm CEST
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Syria: Who Needs a Propaganda Operation When You Have the New York Times?

To be immoral is bad; to be immoral against your own interests is worse… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Syrian Revolution • The Media