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It’s a Looney World News Roundup

This has been such a bizarre week loaded with outlandish news articles about the Middle East and Gaza in particular, are all over the news. Here are few stories that caught my attention, I hope you find them of… »

Pakistan and Saudi Get Cozier. Nuclozier.

Discussion on a post-racial America aside, let me bring your attention to a very interesting piece from the guardian which was forwarded to me, entitled Pakistan’s Bomb and Saudi Arabia by Julian Borger of the Guardian, part of his Global Security blog. According to Borger, who recently attended a wee conference in Brussells hosted… »

Hyperventilating Over Hypernova

So I’m really sick of the western media’s over glorification of Arab and Muslim bands just because they are such and play heavy metal or hard rock, especially that they usually suck at it. Somehow playing lousy head banging musing is akin to the resurgence of civilization in this savage world. So I almost tuned… »

Muslims Are Confusing

It used to be that nothing made an infidel like an…well… an infidel like hearing the shout “Allahu Akbar.”
Now Muslims want us to feel happy and sympathetic when we hear them shouting the death cry. Even CNN has fell into the trap and has been re-programmed into thinking “Allah es muy Grande” somehow a good… »

Some Tips on Taking a Class on Middle East Politics

This past semester, I had the wonderful opportunity to TA a political science class on the Middle East. While an introductory ME class – from a domestic politics perspective – it was a 300 level class, intended for really anyone other than straight outta high school first… »

Who Said “No Democracy In Iran’?

Share At least these ones did not need a manual and talking points memo from party insiders or insurance companies like the republican operatives that have been going around disrupting healthcare reform town hall meetings. In anycasee, this article, Who Wants Sactions on Iran?, by Hamid Dabashi is a must read for those who care… »

Fair and Balanced

Share As if Fox News didn’t distort the truth enough, now they’ve annexed Iraq too! If they had labeled Egypt, I wonder what they might have called it…Morocco? Seriously though, why is Fox making its own maps anyway? Don’t they have people for that? People who are not conservative idiots with no knowledge of the… »

Understanding Causality

The Obama Administration’s rhetoric against Iran differs from the Bush’s in one main aspect: While Bush was blunt and arrogant, Obama and Co. are either naïve or purposefully and conveniently ignoring four decades of relevant history.

Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, CIA Head Leon Panetta, and Secretary of Defense Bob Gates have all stated their concerns… »

Poor Alternatives

ShareAnne Applebaum, liberal-ish Washington Post and Slate correspondent, former-USSR expert, and wife of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently published the most ridiculous op-ed of all time, entitled “Morocco, an Alternative to Iran.”  On Slate, it was published as “Morocco Makes Peace With Its Past” (perhaps even more proposterous), and I perhaps wouldn’t have… »

Dennis Ross Gets Promotion

He is now Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region (i.e. Pakistan to Morocco, and everything in between). What a shame.

If anyone actually believes that Dennis Ross can have a positive impact on US foreign policy, I’d be curious to hear… »