NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Yemen, Egypt, Egypt-Iran, Libya, Coalition, Ivory Coast
Spot-Light on Coca Cola as Evil Incarnate
The Coca-Cola Case By Maria Popova What Colombian laborers have to do with American foreign policy and the history of soda. Labor rights are among the most pressing human rights issues in industrialized nations. But what makes the subject most devastating is how remote it feels to most of us yet how deeply infused our …
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NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Israel (rogue spoiler), Libya, Cote d’Ivoire (the tsumani spreads). Phi Beta Iota: “Secular youth” is the opposite of Islamic fundamentalist. Similarly, academics, professionals, and small business managers as well as labor generally our “secular” instead of fundamentalist. The West appears to be having difficulty with this obvious foundation point, …
NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Reactions to Libya, Morocco
NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Bahrain, Libya, and related reactions. Phi Beta Iota: The ineptitude of the Western governments will go down in history. What started as a public uprising against dictators, with Muslim and Christian, Sunni and Shi’ite standing shoulder to shoulder, has now been flipped to military interim governments and a surge of Iranian proxies against Sunni allies …
NIGHTWATCH Revolution 2.0 Round-Up
Bahrain, Egypt-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Lebanon, Libya, Libya-India, Comment on No-Fly Zones, Special Comment on Aid to Uprisings and Mercenaries
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 …
