un alto cargo del foreign office escuchaba hace unos meses en madrid cmo un grupo de periodistas le explicaba el poco inters de la opinin pblica espaola por la guerra de afganistn y las posibilidades escasas casi nulas de que el gobierno de zapatero aprobara un aumento de las tropas. consciente de que el problema se ve de forma diferente en los dos paises el diplomtico sonri y apel a l...... [Show More]
a suicide car bomber hit a us convoy near the eastern pushtun city of jalalabad killing one us soldier and at least 20 civilians and wounding 67 other persons. earlier another suicide bomber had attacked a government intelligence office in the southwestern pushtun city of qandahar killing 6 and wounding 42. there is a special place in hell for the taliban in qandahar who threw acid on t...... [Show More]
all the news you never knew you needed to know until now.
in the news something must have happened while i was gone. george w. shows barack obama around the white house and the obama team is working on a plan to close down gitmo
stan goff put it this way and this buffalo for one is waiting for concrete action on this constitutional travesty immediately aft...... [Show More]
ontnuchtering Post Source: www.andrebogaert.be Posted: Nov 09 2008 13:18:06
barack obama heeft wel heel vlug veel politiek denkende mensen ontnuchterd door rahm emanuel te kiezen tot stafhoofd van het witte huis aan van de belangrijkste functies na de president zelf. uiteraard voer voor die mensen die vinden terecht volgens mij dat er met de keuze van de nieuwe president niet veel zal veranderen aan de rampzalige buitenlandse politiek van de vs o.m. ten opz...... [Show More]
barnett rubin
i cant stop stewing over this attack on rashid khalidi. even the washington post editorial board called out the republicans on this one quoting rashid as saying he would just wait till the idiot wind blows over. thats the editorials title idiot wind.
i have been wondering why among all the awful things going on this one is occupyin...... [Show More]
yesterday john mccain in an attempt to scare jewish voters over barack obamas associations characterized columbia university professor rashid khalidi as a neonazi. defense of khalidi was quick and vocal. heres a roundup
barnett r. rubin
i actually find it demeaning insulting and depressing to have to defend rashid. i could say i know him he has been a gue...... [Show More]
informed comment global affairs rubin my friend the neo nazi822 1 october 30 2008
it is really strange to turn on the television and see actual presidential and vicepresidential candidates charging that someone who had dinner at my apartment two weeks ago professor rashid khalidi of columbia university is a neo nazi.82 21 yet john mccain actually said th...... [Show More]
rachid khaleeede Post Source: www.chapatimystery.com Posted: Oct 30 2008 23:35:40
actual professors in hyde park last night from sarah palin keith olbermann rachel maddow and jon stewart i heard about yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with barack obama going back several years rashid khalidi. it is a startling realization one that has caused me to reassess my impression and my fe...... [Show More]
by barnett rubin
it is really strange to turn on the television and see actual presidential and vicepresidential candidates charging that someone who had dinner at my apartment two weeks ago professor rashid khalidi of columbia university is a neo nazi.82 21 yet john mccain actually said this yesterday. sarah palin also attacked him as a radical professo...... [Show More]
mccain slander first Post Source: wonkroom.thinkprogress.org Posted: Oct 30 2008 21:00:19
in one of the more shameful episodes in the recent history of campaign flackery team mccain sent its bloggersp okesperson mike goldfarb out to shovel dirt at columbia university professor rashid khalidi . after casually conceding that khalidi received almost half a million dollars from the international republican institute back when it was headed by john mccain goldfarb proceeds to smear... [Show More]
to be sonned by rick sanchez takes a certain chromosomal abundance.
meanwhile sanchez unfortunately acceded to the slanderous premise that khalidi is an antisemite. his friend barney rubin a tribesman dispatches that nonsense
i actually find it demeaning insulting and depressing to have to defend rashid. i could say i know him he has been a guest in my home in new york and in my...... [Show More]
the increasingly sleazy john mccain who once promised to run a clean campaign has now attacked my friend rashid khalidi and attempted to use him against barack obama . khalidi is an american scholar of palestinian heritage born in new york and educated at yale and oxford who now teaches at columbia university. he directed the middle east center at the university of chicago for some time an...... [Show More]
by farideh farhi
after enduring almost two years of incessant presidential politics in the united states i must say that i am not really looking forward to yet another prolonged race this time in iran. but the reality is that the campaign for the presidency of iran to be decided on 12 june 2009 or a few weeks later if the contest again goes to the second round has already become heated eve...... [Show More]
je mag niets kennen van economie je verliezen in getallen en cijfers balen van het nie uws op nationaal vlak wat dezer dagen in de usa gebeurt is ongetwijfeld geschiedenis. als er binnen een eeuw gesproken wordt over het begin van deze eeuw zal wellicht in aan adem de aanval op de twintowers en de financiale ineenstorting van de usa in de jaren daarna worden vernoemd. zie het...... [Show More]
iaea report on iran Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Sep 17 2008 13:32:09
the iaea issued its report on irans nuclear program on monday of this week.a farideh farhi at informed comment global affairs reviews the report and argues that outside the possibility of iran drawing on foreign expertise in conducting experiments on a detonator suitable for an implosiontype nuclear weapon the report is substantially very similar to the previous report.
far...... [Show More]
strange things happen in iraq. on tuesday an unidentified iraqi government security force or at least people wearing such uniforms attacked the diyala provincial governors headquarters killed his secretary and arrested a member of the diyala provincial assembly. the local police fought back and four were wounded. the attacking unit is said to be a special forces group that typic...... [Show More]
goodbye musharraf reax Post Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Posted: Aug 18 2008 17:52:00
some thoughts from around the web on the pakistani strongman resigning. frankie martin an overwhelming percentage of pakistanis are opposed to musharrafs war against militants in pakistans tribal areas seeing it as an unnecessary american intervention that has made pakistan less secure. the us must understand that in voting to impeach musharraf pakistanis wanted to vote against...... [Show More]
the king is dead reads the headline in sindh today as pakistan president pervez musharraf announced his resignation.
the possibility of impeachment which requires twothirds votes of the two chambers of parliament seemed too good to be true and the possibility that musharraf would resign seemed even more too good to be true. however it was clear that his support was crumbli...... [Show More]
mark levine is disturbed by the tendency of barack obama and other us politicians to lump the taliban together with alqaeda. the latter he says is an international terrorist organization. the taliban in contrast is a territorially rooted ethn onational ist movement. aljazeera international on mawlana fazlullah the number 2 man in the tehriki taliban or pakistani t...... [Show More]
one hundred pushtun guerrillas launched a major offensive in an attempt to take spera district center . they drew down on themselves the full fury of us and nato air forces that gave support to afghan national police which killed up to 70 of them. jang reports in urdu that khost governor arsala jamal said that the guerrillas had begun by attacking police checkpoints. in the aftermath loca..... [Show More]
obama obama in newsweek our success in afghanistan is going to be deeply dependent not just on getting more troops there which we need but also some sustained highlevel engagement with pakistansomething that i discussed before but i think is significantly more urgent than even i had imagined. basically there doesnt appear to be any pressure at all being placed on al qaeda ...... [Show More]
next monday is dday when the court meets to decide about closing the akp. a decision may be announced that day or the next. hold on to your hat. ill be very surprised if they dont close it down. with the vast ergenekon conspiracy of coup attempts being unearthed and new arrests every week as well as the deleterious consequences predicted for turkeys economy and eu standing...... [Show More]
farideh farhi iranianameircan academic and blogger analysed the recent nuclear negotiation between iran and six world powers in geneva....... [Show More]
my salon column obama is saying the wrong things about afghanistan is now available online. excerpt the governor of the northwest frontier province owais ghani immediately spoke out against obama saying that the senators remarks had the effect of undermining the new civilian government elected last february. ghani warned that a u.s. incursion into the nort...... [Show More]
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