NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Libya, Libya-France
CrisisWatch N°91, 1 March 2011
CrisisWatch N°91, 1 March 2011 (pdf) Anti-government protests also took place in Oman and Djibouti. In Afghanistan, the standoff continued between President Hamid Karzai and the opposition over the flawed September parliamentary election. A controversial special tribunal set up by Karzai – which the opposition condemns as unconstitutional – has started recounting votes in several …
NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Iran, Oman, Bahrein, Kuwait, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Libya
WikiLeaks Nails Saudi Royals–March Protests Planned
Wikileaks Goes After The Saudi Royal Family Gus Lubin | Feb. 28, 2011, 6:28 AM Business Insider Wikileaks just released a motherload of info on the taboo subject of Saudi Arabian royal rents. The 1996 cable — entitled “Saudi Royal Wealth: Where do they get all that money?” — describes legal and illegal ways that …
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Review: Simple Government
Mike Huckabee Great Mind and Heart, Too Simple, Good Start February 26, 2011 Right up front, and in part because this is going to be a “tough love” commentary, I want to say that of all those of any persuasion who are known presidential contenders, Mike Huckabee is the only one I genuinely like, trust, …
NIGHTWATCH Essay: Youth, Democracy, & the West
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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NIGHTWATCH Comment on US Mid-East Policy
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 …
