http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,744092,00.html A Voice as Powerful as Countries Can Al-Jazeera Topple Governments?By Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash The wave of protests in the Arab world has highlighted the power of Al-Jazeera, which has unparalleled influence in the Middle East. It has been banned from reporting on the unrest in Egypt, where its reporters have been targeted […]
http://bigpeace.com/jdhalevi/2011/02/08/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-in-their-own-words/ Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: In Their Own Words Posted by Jonathan Dahoah Halevi The Muslim Brotherhood has taken a greater role in organizing the protest against the Egyptian regime as it unfolds its independent political agenda. Rashad al-Bayumi, the Brotherhood’s second-in-command, announced in an interview with Japanese TV that the group would join a transitional […]
Douglas J. Feith http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259170 Dictators and Hedgehogs If the Muslim Brotherhood gains the upper hand in Egypt, the revolution may do more harm than good for human rights in Egypt and may increase regional instability and the danger of war. For now, the Obama administration is preoccupied with crisis management. But America could use a […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/liebermans-legacy-good-man-terrible-climate-policy/ Lieberman’s Legacy: Good Man, Terrible Climate Policy Posted By Art Horn Recently Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut announced he will retire after his current term is up in 2012. This is nothing but good news for climate realists and the national energy policy future. Don’t get me wrong. Joe is a “good guy,” and […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/id.6895/blog_detail.asp What Obama Should Learn From Bush on Egypt Carol Taber Historically, the only kind of Middle Eastern democracies Democrats like are the ones that are anti-American. When George W. Bush forcibly established democracy in Iraq by overthrowing Saddam Hussein, the left called him imperialist, dictatorial, and evil. They began to cheer Iraqi democracy only […]
Olbermann Going To Al Gore’s Current TV TO PARAPHRASE…THE ARSE IS GORED?…RSK http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/ It looks as if Mr. Nasty Keith Olbermann has found a new home. Possibly one of the few TV networks with a smaller audience than MSNBC. According to The New York Times, Olbermann will be going to struggling Current TV the network […]
Elisabeth of Eurabia: An Austrian Rose among English Thorns? Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is clearly a woman who won’t walk on eggshells, even though she’s been prosecuted in her homeland, Austria, for “hate speech” following a report by an undercover reporter in a glossy magazine of a lecture on radical Islam that she gave. A diplomat’s daughter, […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=207252 “This does not bode well, and demographics are only further complicating the cultural conundrum. The Muslim population in the UK will almost double to 5.5 million – or 10 percent of the national total – within 20 years, according to a recent Pew Research Center forecast. The Islamists’ threat itself may be crude, but […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/562346/201102071906/Americas-Dangerous-Bromance.htm Is this just Carteresque naivete, leading to a great tragedy like the deposing of the shah of Iran? Or is it something worse — a dangerous world view that says even terrorists who seek to kill us deserve America’s respect and solicitude? Egypt: As the U.S. pushes for the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood […]
“Though it is hard to know, given Suleiman’s background as an unsentimental Middle Eastern intelligence chief, the latter seems more likely”– http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/08/obamas-fantasies-egyptian-real Obama’s Fantasies, Egyptian Reality By P. David Hornik One can take heart from this week’s Wikileaks revelations about how intensely Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s new vice-president and former intelligence chief, dislikes both homegrown Egyptian […]
