In Damascus, the regime presents a picture of vast rallies of support. But as tensions rise on the nation’s borders, cracks are showing. In Beirut, Robert Fisk peers behind the propaganda Independent Monday, 17 October 2011 Cross-border tank incursions; four Syrian opponents of the Damascus regime kidnapped in Lebanon, supposedly in a vehicle belonging [...]
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Patrick Cockburn: Iran had better watch its step now Obama’s chasing votes
A fumbling Tehran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was dismissed as bizarre by the rest of the world. But the White House is taking it very seriously Independent Sunday, 16 October 2011 The plot in which an Iranian-American fromCorpus Christi,Texas, notorious locally for his Clouseau-like dimwittedness, tries to hire a Mexican gangster to [...]
Robert Fisk: Great War secrets of the Ottoman Arabs
Independent Saturday, 15 October 2011 Forgotten soldiers. We all know about Gallipoli; hopelessly conceived mess, dreamed up by Churchill to move the Great War from the glued trenches ofFranceto a fast-moving invasion ofGermany’s Ottoman allies in 1915. Embark a vast army of Australians, New Zealanders, Brits, French and others east ofIstanbul in order to [...]
Video: The People (Of Egypt) Are Calling for Change
10.13.11 – 6:31 PM The powerful short film, “I Am Not Moving,” juxtaposes Occupy scenes with footage of the Arab Spring alongside a righteous-sounding Hillary Clinton and Obama on the people’s rights of expression and assembly. Watch it, post it. see here: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/10/13-3
Al-Shabab and Somalia’s ‘far enemy’
Al-Shabab has withdrawn from Mogadishu, but the country is shattered from years of civil war and US military actions. Glen Johnson Al Jazeera Last Modified: 09 Oct 2011 14:49 Abdullahi walks slowly past makeshift stalls in a crowdedMogadishumarket, dragging his right leg as he does so. He is in his 50s and unemployed, [...]
Patrick Cockburn: Power struggle deepens divisions among Bahraini royal family
Police suspended for torture reinstated as hardliners seek to marginalise their ‘liberal’ prince Independent Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Senior Bahraini police officers suspended for torturing detainees are being swiftly reinstated in a sign of a growing struggle for power within the al-Khalifa royal family over the extent of the repression to be used [...]
Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted
by Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud www.ramzybaroud.net is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press, London), available on Amazon.com September 26, 2011 ”Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his [...]
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