President Obama’s directive on the preferential use of technological warfare has been cast in the limelight this week by the leaking of his “kill list” – a list of American citizens that have been targeted for assassination by their own… Read More ›
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The Truth About Syria: Regional Spillover and Theories of Conflict Causes
Over the last week, reports from the ground level and from those that have fled Syria* for safe havens have been coming through, sharing a lot of information about where they are, what is going on in Damascus and in… Read More ›
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shall Regime-Change
Since Summer 2010 and the commencement of the “Libya sequence”, we have been living in a parallel political universe, where the United States of America is GOD and there is an eleventh (11th) Commandment that rules our world: Thou shall… Read More ›
Geneva Conference Agrees “Basic Principles” but Stops Short on Substance of a Peace Process for Syria
Yesterday in Geneva, the Security Council P5, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, EU, the UN and the League of Arab States met to discuss the continuing instability in Syria – conspicuously absent were Saudi Arabia and Iran, the key protagonists and… Read More ›
US Foreign Policy on Middle East: An Assessment
In his first few months in office, President Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize. During the same period, President Obama announced that the US would be accelerating the timetable for pullout from Iraq and then Afghanistan. He followed through… Read More ›
Political Resolution and Mediation Proposal on Syria
No matter which way you see it, Syria is already more complicated and more loaded than Libya or Iraq ever was. Russia and potentially China are involved in Syria this time in total opposition to the proposal by the US… Read More ›
The Truth About Syria: Regime Change or Stopping the Carnage?
I want to talk about the sheer duplicity, lies, deception, and premeditated warmongering that is conditioning the debate on Syria currently in New York (UN) and Washington DC. Let’s consider the facts for a second: Bashar Al-Assad has repeatedly told… Read More ›
The Truth of the Situation in Syria: Do We Really Know it?
Today, I paused to recap what I really know about Syria and the violence affecting its people. I started with the Government. We know that the Al-Assad government is composed of Alawites, Shiites, Sunnis and even a few, perhaps token,… Read More ›
Regional and International Interest Groups Step up Support for Their Candidates In the Egyptian Presidential Race
The article by AFP reproduced below is the tip of the iceberg! The truth is that each of the presidential candidates is supported politically and financially by different countries, international constituencies and power brokers. The four candidates, drawing from the… Read More ›
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia: The Thorny Exceptions in US Foreign Policy + Responses to Comments from Mccartange
The CNN ticker over 12 and 13th May, 2012 have been flashing the news that the US is recommencing military assistance to the Bahrain and secondly, that Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are holding discussions concerning a “political union” in order… Read More ›
Regional Islamic Mosaic Complicates Annan’s Syria Six-Point Peace Plan
As mentioned in my post Islamic Mosaic, Kofi Annan’s success in ensuring the implementation and respect by Syria and by other regional powers with stakes in Syria will depend upon a complicated set of religious minorities and majorities spread throughout… Read More ›
Are Oil Prices Rising Due to the Iranian situation? Who Wins?
This week Iran cut oil supplies to Britain and France ahead of the promised EU sanctions this summer; Iran is also threatening to cut supplies to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Germany in the coming days and weeks. Almost ahead… Read More ›
Islamic Mosaic: The Patchwork of Shiite and Sunni Communities Quicksand for Regional Stability
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman and Qatar form part of the Islamic Mosaic of Shiite and Sunni communities laying the groundwork for the enlargement of the Syrian Shia-Sunni conflict, if ignited. The world “Arab” does not distinguish… Read More ›
