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Apocalyptic prophesies and the war in South Ossetia: Glenn Beck interviews Joel Rosenberg
Transcript of a recent interview between conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck and "The Last Jihad" author Joel Rosenberg about the current Russian-Georgian conflict and the prophecies o...
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http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/glenn-beck-asks-joel-about-politics-prophec...
Hunting Al-Qaeda From the Skies - washingtonpost.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/09/10/GR2008091000459.html
In Hunt for Bin Laden, a New Approach - washingtonpost.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903404.html?g=1
Suicide bomber attacks Indian Embassy in Kabul
If India is drawn into direct or proxy conflict with the Taliban (and by extension Pakistan's ISI), the results could be very explosive.
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JG09Df02.html
Sixteenth-century "skyscrapers" in Yemen
Mud-brick buildings, four to five hundred years old, mostly seven to nine stories. Good photos.
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http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/05/19/worlds-oldest-skyscrapers
Interview with Jordan's Prince Hassan
Extensive, multipart interview. Crown Prince Hassan (the late Hussein's brother) is no dummy; he is an excellent, hard-headed, realistic observer of Middle Eastern politics who works for ...
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http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=105953&bolum=8
A Deadly U.S.-Iran Firefight | TIME
US and Iranian troops exchanged small-arms and RPG fire last September on the Iran-Iraq border. This has been kept very quiet until recently.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1605487,00.html
Annalee Newitz, "Anti-authoritarian Cities" (AlterNet, 9/5/2007)
Reflections on the significance of new discoveries about the development of the ancient Syrian town Brak, which appears to have grown together out of various disparate groups rather than ...
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http://www.alternet.org/story/61757
Jordan Times (Opinion Section) - "US image problem rooted in history"
An Arab-American journalist now based in Malaysia criticizes Bush's 12/12/05 speech blaming "Arabic television stations" for the U.S.'s image problem throughout the Muslim world. Via Watc...
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http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/opinion/opinion5.htm
Online NewsHour: A Preview of The Palestinian Elections-- January 24, 2006
Transcript of a pre-election report from PBS. Not all their predictions came true, but still, it's a thoughtful piece. It's not about U.S. pluralism, but it does raise some interesting qu...
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june06/palestine_1-24.html
For Iranians, religion relates to the nuclear issue - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
Popular sentiment in Isfahan suggests a connection between Shiite identity and Iran's nuclear aspirations.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/06/news/mood.php
Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone From Yahoo! News
Interview with one of the stars of "Paradise Now," a Palestinian feature film portraying 48 hours in the life of two young suicide bombers.
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http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs2572
Katherine Zoepf, Damascus: "We're Ready"
A disturbing report from Katherine Zoepf on the state of public opinion in Damascus.
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http://www.observer.com/20060724/20060724_Katherine_Zoepf_politics_specialnewsstory2.asp
Is Israel's counterattack in line with just war theory?
Michael Walzer's piece in TNR, in which he finds Israel's actions in Lebanon to be consistent with just war theory. This has apparently made something of a splash amongst pro-Israel US De...
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http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060731&s=walzer073106
UPDATED: Israeli Columnists Now Worried About War
E&P publishes a piece on the fact that opinion seems gradually to be shifting against Israel's actions in Lebanon.
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=10...
The spirit of Spinoza Cornel West - The Boston Globe
Cornel West on the underlying moral and philosophical issues regarding our response to the Middle East conflict.
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/07/28/the_spirit_of_sp...
Going the Distance - Interview with Milt Bearden, former CIA official
Interviewee suggests that the current Israel-Hizbullah-Lebanon conflict has already destroyed a lot of the future prospects for peace and democracy in the region.
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http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs8074
TOO NICE TO WIN? ISRAEL'S DILEMMA By JOHN PODHORETZ - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
Argues that Israel (and the US) cannot stomach the ruthlessness required for successful war-fighting any more. Strikes me as absolutely preposterous.
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http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/too_nice_to_win__israels_dilemma_opedcolumn...
AUB - Outlook Student Newspaper :: Latest Issue
An interview with Timur Goksel, the former head (a Turk) of UNIFIL, now a prof. at American University of Beirut.
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http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~weboutl/volume35/issue4/66.html
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: Battle for the Middle East
PBS on the Shia-Sunni split. Interview with Vali Nasr of the Naval Postgraduate School.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week950/exclusive.html
Seymour Hersh, Watching Lebanon | The New Yorker: Fact
Seymour Hersh's latest on the Bush administration and the Lebanon crisis.
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060821fa_fact
On the Face :: The most blogged war?
On the fact that ordinary Lebanese and Israelis were communicating in real time during the conflict via the Internet.
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http://ontheface.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/18/2134966.html
Bomb shelter #30, Metulla on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Somehow this picture seems very powerful
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/38128614@N00/209230039/in/photostream
Hezbollah fighter's zeal undiminished
Interview with a purported Hizbullah fighter. Suggests the depth and extent of the organization's roots in Lebanon's countryside.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Mideast_Face_of_Hezbollah.html
Inside a death house | Features | The Australian
Includes very grisly details about the experience of civilians trapped during the Israeli bombing of Qana, early Aug. 2006.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20876,20009239-28737,00.html
Afghan Symbol for Change Becomes a Symbol of Failure - New York Times
A truly depressing article, on how disastrously the U.S. effort in Afghanistan (remember Afghanistan?) has failed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?ex=1315108800&en=3c5dce293cc0b7ca...
Seymour Hersch | Last Stand: The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
Why the U.S. military is objecting to Presidential plans to attack Iran (from July 2006).
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060710fa_fact
American Prospect Online - ViewPrint
A profile of evangelical pastor John Hagee and his "prophetic" perspective on Iran. Hint: he thinks we should invade.
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http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11541
AlterNet: Lobbying for Armageddon
On the overlap between the neoconservative agenda in the Middle East and the "Christian Zionist" drive towards Armageddon.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/39748
Bombing "softens Muslims" to Gospel
From July 2006: Samaritan's Purse finds that getting the shit bombed out of them makes Muslims more likely to accept Jesus. Via http://snurl.com/11q5v
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http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/242006f.asp
B'tselem: an Israeli human rights information group
The site of an Israeli group dedicated to documenting a broad spectrum of human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories. A well-designed website with a lot of information.
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http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp
Negroponte warns of growing Shiite militancy in Iraq
While everyone's arguing about the "surge" and about whether there's a "civil war" going on yet, signs of a broader, more ominous, region-wide destabilization are on the horizon.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12intel.html?_r=1&oref=login
Syrian intel agency influencing Western policies? [4]
Maher Arar, the Canadian who was seized by US operatives while changing planes in NYC, shipped to Syria, tortured for ten months and then set free, is receiving a settlement from the Cana...
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http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=529665be-b3e7-4607-bc58-24...
Syrian intel agency influencing Western policies?
Maher Arar, the Canadian who was seized by US operatives while changing planes in NYC, shipped to Syria, tortured for ten months and then set free, is receiving a settlement from the Cana...
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http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=529665be-b3e7-4607-bc58-24...
Here's the "proof" of Iranian involvement in Iraq
Talking Points Memo has posted the briefing, in the form of Powerpoint slides, given to reporters a few days ago in Baghdad, which purports to prove that Iran is behind attacks on US troo...
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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002534.php
Poll: Bethlehem's Christians fear Israelis, not Muslims
An interesting polling result from OpenBethlehem.org. They find that Americans have enormous misconceptions about Bethlehem's history, demographics, and even location; while Christian Bet...
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http://www.openbethlehem.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=17
"Our enemies aren't drinking lattes": logistics and supply lines in the US military
An interesting piece from summer 2006 on the massive military infrastructure devoted to logistical operations and how that may be hampering performance in other areas.
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http://www.cfr.org/publication/11038
It's official: Iraq's oil belongs to US corporations
According to commentary from the Asia Times Online, the newly mandated "Federal oil council" of Iraq, which will control the country's energy resources, is going to consist largely of U.S...
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB28Ak01.html
Military opposition to possible war on Iran
UK intelligence sources report in the Times (London) that there will likely be a wave of resignations among high-level staff officers should the Bush administration decide to launch a mil...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1434540.ece
Mark Juergensmeyer commentary: "The Moral War Against Iraq," September 13, 2002
Commentary by Mark Juergensmeyer on Bush's United Nations speech of September 2002, in which he laid out the case against Iraq. Juergensmeyer remarks particularly on his use of quasi-reli...
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week602/juergensmeyer.html
Egypt arrests 2 Muslim Brotherhood MPs, 10 others, in ongoing crackdown
The Mubarak government's crackdown on the banned Muslim Brotherhood continues in an apparent effort to prevent the organization from fielding candidates for parliamentary elections. Would...
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/29/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Brotherhood-Arrests.php
"Fulfilling our Zionist destiny": Ha'aretz op-ed
A sober look at the current state of affairs in Israel from the relatively conservative Ha'aretz.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851489.html
In Iran, "life is insecure"
An Iranian blogger's remarks on the "insecurity" bred by the vagueness of Iranian law. For example, freedom of speech is guaranteed, but insults to Islam -- which can be defined however t...
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http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/05/10/the-accidental-activist
Amr Diab - Nour al Ain
Egyptian pop.
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http://81.196.50.124/muzica/Amro%20Diab%20-%20Habibi%20Ya%20Nour%20Al%20Ain.mp3
Palestinian blogger: Hamas & Fatah, go to hell!
The title says it all. He, too, sees Western support of Fatah as a treacherous and cynical way of prolonging intra-Palestinian conflict and sacrificing Palestinian lives. Palestinians, he...
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http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/06/15/abbas-hamas-dahlan-and-the-pa-should-go-to-hell
A Palestinian blogger's disgust at factional fighting
A Palestinian student blogger observes that the factional violence in the Palestinian territory is all the more absurd because the PA itself has zero power. Not surprisingly, she blames I...
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http://alfalasteenyia.blogspot.com/2007/06/fighting-for-nothing.html
New Palestinian PM warns religious militants
Key quote: "Salam Fayyad has said he won't tolerate calls for violence delivered from mosque pulpits and plans to collect militants' weapons." I wonder whether he actually has enough cont...
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http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070017121
Cartoon: varieties of hijab on the Syrian street
A cartoonist calling herself "Puppeteer" drew this amusing catalogue of the varieties of hijab she encounters walking to work each day in Damascus.
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http://www.inblogs.net/thoughts-journal/2007/04/islamic-syria_06.html