The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Weekend Edition February 25 – 26, 2011 A Jittery GCC: Bahrain and the “Freedom Contagion” By RANNIE AMIRI, Counterpunch “Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends. It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” – Dr. Toby Jones, expert on Saudi …
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20110226 The Complete Spengler Single posting of all past posts with links. Selected posts: 20110215 The Internet bubble in Middle East politics 20090418 And Spengler is …[David P. Goldman] 20090209 Who are the ‘extraordinary’ Muslims? 2009 Save less, breed more 20090330 The gods are stupid Phi Beta Iota: “Spengler” is channeled by David P Goldman, …
NightWatch Essay: Some time ago, David Goldman, purporting to channel Oswald Spengler for Asia Times Online, wrote a farsighted essay [And Spengler is…] that anticipated, predicted and warned that modern impulses in the youth of the Middle East would rise up against conservative institutions to assert a modern definition of being Arab, Berber, Turk, Persian …
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Special comment. Readers are watching the crumbling of the US policy architecture in the Middle East during the past four decades which stressed regional stability over all other considerations. That policy did not restrain Israel but did help limit conflicts, It also had many negative consequences for devout Muslims and supporters of the Palestinians. The …
Very heavy interview with Turkey’s Foreign minister : Beginning at 9:40, the issue of Israeli intransigence on negotiations. No “mainstream” pick-up anywhere I can find. Turkey’s line in the sand. Cannot be walked back. I believe this to be a notice to US in the face of the wikileaks palestinian docs which revealed the US …
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North Korea/China: Why public intelligence matters more than Chinese blocking of UN information. Bahrein: Corrects erroneous view that Egyptian Army was “insubordinate and policized” in contrast to the disciplined and brutally repressive Bahrein forces. Egypt: Excellent overview on Workers, Brotherhood, the naive young–and corrective comment on why US Government is failing to get it right …
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Bahrain: The King of Bahrain appeared on television to announce an investigation into the deaths of two protesters killed in clashes with security forces, during the past two days of demonstrations. King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa said, “There have sadly been two deaths. I express my deep condolences to their families.” He also promised …
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