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Friday, 14 Sep, 2012
The Icarus Syndrome by Peter Beinart
Few books capture the transformation of America’s foreign policy and the nation’s psyche in the hours and months after the attacks on 9/11, and contextualize these events in the wider history of America’s foreign relations. Written in an eloquent and thoughtful style and markedly different from the other literature that has come out in the past decade or so, Beinart’s work should be read by anyone interested in American foreign poli...
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Wednesday, 12 Sep, 2012
Congratulations to Sam Bacile, the Israeli property developer who was reportedly behind the knuckle-headed video which last night appeared to lead to the deaths of five Americans, one of them the ambassador to Libya.
The film, which was also allegedly backed by a consortium of wealthy Jewish funders, depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a fraud.
Mr Bacile, who today appeared stubbornly unrepentant, obviously knows which buttons to push.
His decidedly ham-fisted effort also triggered angry p...
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Wait for it – because it surely won’t be long.
Following yesterday’s attack on an Egyptian border post in which at least 16 troops were reportedly shot dead by militants, ...
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I’m spending the month in my hometown near the port city of San Diego, which hosts a large concentration of US Navy and Marine facilities. Needless to say, the affairs of the two...
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Wednesday, 1 Aug, 2012
In late 1999 I spent a day reporting in the West Bank from a delivery truck operated by Al-Haya Food Industries, a venerable Palestinian meat company. My escorts were Halil Masaud ...
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Monday, 27 Feb, 2012
On Friday, some 70 foreign ministers and diplomats met in Tunis in the first meeting of the “Friends of Syria”, a coordinated international effort that is attempting to fin...
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Friday, 24 Feb, 2012
America has a problem. This problem has manifested itself in the recent merger of Al-Qaeda, America’s number one enemy, with the Somali insurgent group, Al-Shabab. The latter...
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Tuesday, 21 Feb, 2012
TV weathermen have a cosy life in Egypt – a country where the climate is as predictable as a Russian UN veto.
The wind, for instance, which blows upstream along the Nile f...
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Wednesday, 25 Jan, 2012
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally left Yemen, and now the Yemenis along with the international community must make sure that he does not return.
According to media re...
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Monday, 23 Jan, 2012
The Arab league convened on Sunday in Cairo in order to deliberate over the future of the organization’s mission to Syria. Despite the fact that the 22-member organization’...
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