News and Analysis (8/30/13)

Although the U.N. has not yet revealed the findings of  its investigation, after the British parliament’s refusal to knuckle under Cameron’s war plans,  the U.S. is prepared to move ahead on its own …

… and on the strength of purported evidence that “chemical munitions … were launched by rocket batteries from government-held positions” …

… Kerry, in a stance reminiscent of Colin Powell’s unfortunate U.N. address about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, continues to refuse to entertain the notion that Syrian rebels might be behind the recent chemical attacks …

… even as Lebanon blames them for terrorism spilling across their border …

… and American airstrikes could “involve casualties among the Sunni Muslim majority that has led the revolt against Assad” …

… and though American public is not convinced intervention is in their interests, Obama seems more concerned with the interests of certain other countries …

… er, strike Jordan from that list:

“The detentions come after the network’s al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr affiliate in Egypt was raided and its staff detained. Egyptian authorities have labelled al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr a “threat to national security” and are taking steps to ban it”:

“Tens of thousands of protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters rallied Friday throughout Egypt against a military coup and a bloody security crackdown, though tanks and armored police vehicles barred them from converging in major squares”:

“El-Beltagi’s 17-year-old daughter, Asmaa, died in violence related to the sit-in crackdowns”:

“After the fall of the regime in neighboring Libya, weapons flowed across the desert, falling into the hands of militants. Dozens of militants are believed to be in the mountains near the Algerian border”:

“The Levellers and the Brotherhood … both helped depose a decadent, out-of-touch king … who was regarded as being too much a puppet of [a] foreign power, both were/are religious puritans of a pretty rigorous kind, both were/are powered by popular grassroots activism, both were/are unsound on women …, and both were done in by the leaders of the army”:

“Siavosh Derakhti, a young Muslim from Malmö who has emerged as a leading figure in the fight against anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Sweden, picked up the first-ever Raoul Wallenberg Prize on Tuesday”:


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