Pew Survey on Muslim Views of Obama
[Webshaykh’s note: On July 23 the Pew Global Attitudes Project issued a report on its survey conducted May 18 to June 16 in 24 countries, including the Palestinian territories. The full report is...
View Articlecoup
“President Richard M. Nixon discussed with Brazil’s president a cooperative effort to overthrow the government of Salvador Allende of Chile, according to recently declassified documents that reveal...
View ArticleIsraeli & American Jews "parting ways" on Democracy ….
Naomi Chazan in the JPOst, here ” … recent polls conducted in the two major concentrations of Jewish existence today – Israel and the United States – reveal a growing divergence of views, interests and...
View ArticleIsraeli president Peres begins Argentina visit (AFP)
AFP – Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived in Argentina, home to Latin America’s biggest Jewish community, Sunday for a two-day visit and meeting with President Cristina Kirchner, just ahead of a...
View ArticleAfghanistan’s Colombia connection
The Afghan press has an interesting dispatch on burgeoning relations between Afghanistan and Colombia: Jawad seeks Colombia’s support on terror, narcoticsBy Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Pajhwok) –...
View ArticleSwiss Islamophobia Betrays Enlightenment Ideals
Switzerland on Sunday voted by 58 percent in favor of banning minarets. This campaign poster was banned for being racist, but apparently the goal of the poster, now that is all right. Swissinfo surveys...
View ArticleReckon
I had two issues of the Economist with me on the plane. I swear: in the first feature articles in both issues I encountered the inevitable “reckon”. Also, the magazine is going a bit more right-wing in...
View Article(Excellent) Pat Lang: "Our war in Iraq is now cited as an example of the...
Col. Lang skeptical of COIN, has this great critic at SST “… Successes: * The British suppression of the “Malayan Emergency” was probably the greatest success of the counterinsurgents….There were never...
View ArticleAnd Now for Something Completely Different: Bagpipes in Bethlehem
My second seasonal posting: In case it hasn’t occurred to you to search YouTube for “Arab Orthodox Scout Troop — Bagpipes Band” and “Christmas Day Bethlehem”, for our current Christmas season, here...
View ArticleConcern in Iranian ‘Green’ circles that neocons & allies … are highjacking...
Via RFI/ here This piece is by Farid Marjai, an Iranian-Canadian who, among other things, has published several pieces in reformist newspapers in Iran over the years. … Farid is someone deeply...
View Article"… why not?…"
FP/ here “… in recent conversations concerning this possible shift in the situation in the Middle East with diplomats from several countries in Asia, the greater Middle East, and Latin America, another...
View Article"… It is easier to produce nice-sounding diplomatic documents than to take...
Dimitri Simes in TIME/ here President Obama has presented the new arms control treaty he signed in Prague on April 8 as a “historic accomplishment” in both nuclear security and U.S. relations with...
View Articlehighly deflated
“”Despite the recession, last year “The Israel Project” received $7 million dollars in donations, expanded its staff to 44 employees and recently added projects in Latin America and outreach to the...
View Article
