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Author Archives: iPouya
Ron Paul on The Tonight Show
He’s looking really good and it’s not because there’s a low standard amongst the Republican nominees, though they are all very terrible to be sure, but he’s so on point, especially when it comes to foreign policy, I’d seriously consider … Continue reading
Posted in 22 Khordad
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Repressing Democracy, With American Arms
NYT: When President Obama decides soon whether to approve a $53 million arms sale to our close but despotic ally Bahrain, he must weigh the fact that America has a major naval base here and that Bahrain is a moderate, … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Bahrain
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Juan Cole on Gringrich’s Palestine Comments
Informed Comment: Newt Gingrich has been trying for the monetary backing and votes of Jewish Americans and Christian Zionists by taking up the positions of the Israeli far Right. He promises to move the US embassy to Jerusalem (disputed territory … Continue reading
Amnesty: US arming the counter-revolutionary junta in Egypt
al Jazeera: The US has repeatedly sent ammunition to military-ruled Egypt even as the North African country’s security forces were cracking down on unarmed protesters, human rights organisation Amnesty International reports. Amnesty International on Wednesday criticised the US government for … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt
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Ashura in Karbala and south Beirut
Ashura was last week and I didn’t get a chance to post it. Here’s to never being too late… a video of Ashura in Karbala, and a video of Sayyid Hassan at a Ashura rally in south Beirut.
Video: Has War With Iran Already Begun?
See it here.
Posted in Iran, US Foreign Policy, US-Iran Relations
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Leading Palestinian intellectual: We already have a one-state solution
I’ve read 3 of his books. In other words, when he speaks, I listen. So should you. I’ve highlighted the most pertinent parts of the interview for you. Haaretz: Hamas and the Palestinian Authority should unite, unequivocally renounce violence and … Continue reading
Posted in 22 Khordad
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The Syrian Uprising, UC Berkeley, and the Struggle to be Consistent
There are a number of issues related to the civil war in Syria that I’d like to address. First, one of the blog’s commenters has suggested that there was an armed insurrection against the Syrian regime from the start of … Continue reading
Posted in Syria
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Those who support democracy must welcome the rise of political Islam
It’s a really important article. But the presumption here is that once these groups come to power via elections, they will continue to honor the the democratic process that brought them to power and facilitate elections in the future and … Continue reading
Posted in 22 Khordad
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The 2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll on Iran
A friend of mine recently posted on his blog that most people in the Arab world perceive Iran as a threat. It was a shock for me because for better or worse, the Iranian government is still very popular in … Continue reading
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Tahrir Square
Protesters have converged on the focal point of the January 25th revolution to commence the next and probably more difficult stage of the revolution: the overthrow of the military dictatorship and not just its figurehead. What Egyptians knew all along … Continue reading
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Video: 99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement
“It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months – but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the rich got? This … Continue reading
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Israeli Defense Minister Barak on Iran’s Nuclear Program
The truth comes out: During a Wednesday appearance on the PBS program Charlie Rose, Barak was asked if he would “want a nuclear weapon” were he a member of Iran’s government. “Probably, probably. I know, it’s not – I don’t delude myself … Continue reading
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Must read: Arab revolts – Past and Present
al-Jazeera: The current popular challenges to the Western-sponsored Arab dictatorships are hardly a new occurrence in modern Arab history. We have seen such uprisings against European colonialism in the region since its advent in Algeria in 1830 and in Egypt … Continue reading