Month: December 2011

  • News and Analysis (12/14/11)

    The Brotherhood’s “‘Freedom and Justice’ party championed the rights of free market economy and political and social diversity.”  Unlike the more conservative An-Nour Party, “the group’s most loyal supporters are not the fervent extremists they are made out to be in western media, but are well-educated and predominately middle-class Egyptians”: Egypt: Islamists vs. Islamists (Huffington Post)…

  • News and Analysis (12/13/11)

    After propagating the lie that the “Palestinian people” is a recent invention in the latest salvo of his war on Islam, Newt Gingerich should return his Ph.D. in history to Tulane University; among the critics of his absurd gaffe is an observant Orthodox Jew who is ” the first Jew to appear on a major…

  • News and Analysis (12/11/11)

    Find out who the players are, which parties are in which coalition, how many seats have they won, and what are their prospects in the coming rounds of the Egyptian elections: Islamic Parties Win 75 Per Cent of Seats in Egyptian Elections (Counterpunch) Has the Libyan intervention increased the risk of terrorism? Libya’s Missing Missiles:…

  • News and Analysis (12/8/11)

    “[T]he intact condition of the Sentinel tends to support the claim by Iran that its forces electronically hijacked the plane and steered it to the ground;” U.S. officials now admit it “was part of a fleet of secret aircraft that the CIA has used for several years in an escalating espionage campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear…

  • News and Analysis (12/6/11)

    Sectarian violence had been absent in Afghanistan, where an Islamic Brotherhood Council of Shia and Sunni clerics was long established to maintain harmony between the communities. Yet, regional players and developments carried the sectarian epidemic across the boarders of the unstable country: Why Have Afghanistan’s Shias Been Targeted Now? (BBC News) At Least 55 Dead in Kabul Suicide Attack…

  • News and Analysis (12/5/11)

    “After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated regime in 2003, Shiites regained the right to express their beliefs freely, and since then the annual commemorations [of the murder of Imam Hussain on the day of Ashura] have drawn huge crowds despite the threat of violence”: Attacks Kill 21 Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq (AP / Atlanta…

  • News and Analysis (12/4/11)

    After the U.S. Senate passes a bill effectively declaring “war on the American people,” libertarian Sheldon Richman argues, “Permit me to state the obvious: The government shouldn’t be allowed to imprison people indefinitely without charge or trial. It shouldn’t be necessary to say this nearly 800 years after the Magna Carta was signed and over…

  • News and Analysis (12/1/11)

    The FBI admits the records are kept, but denies they are used in investigations: FBI Illegally Using Community Outreach to Gather Intelligence, ACLU Alleges (Washington Post) “Enough is enough. The government will not tolerate any incident of spilling even a single drop of any civilian or soldier’s blood”: Enraged Pakistan Says NATO Attack Threatens War…

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