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Syria: tell me how does it end?
September 28, 2016 06:27 - 6 minutes - 2.22 MBWe all know how it started. A sparkle that was lit from the amber of the Arab Spring fueling the repressed demands of politically destitute and economically deprived Syrians. It did not start as an elite movement exploiting troubled times in the Middle East. Nor was it, as one would expect, a military coup or a hastily concocted accusation of an Imperialist, Zionist, Fascist or some other ‘ist’ conspiracy. The origins of the sparkle were much more modest. Kids scribbling anti-regime slogans o...
Lebanon’s Money Trail will Haunt Hillary
September 19, 2016 18:45 - 3 minutes - 1.07 MBThe breaking news that a donor to the Clinton Foundation namely, the Lebanon-born Gilbert Chagoury has been denied a visa to the US on the basis of links to the Hezbollah, via his financial patronage of Lebanon’s presidential candidate Gen. Michel Aoun came as no surprise to many. The links between the Lebanese-Nigerian Oligarch and presidency-obsessed Aoun are well-known to all parties who have any inkling into Lebanon’s murky politics. The US Embassy in Lebanon needed no covert operation to...
Let’s get rid of all the ‘Isms’ at Once
September 19, 2016 18:37 - 3 minutes - 1.3 MBI have read with great interest the piece in the NY Times contributed by Mr. Javad Zarif the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was a candid opinion in which Mr. Zarif ranted, most rightly, about radical Islam in its Wahhabist form, which is preached principally in Saudi Arabia. One form of such thinking is Wahabbism but the other, an almost identical brand of potion, is generously offered, sponsored and served by the very same Republic that Mr. Zarif represents, ...