Blog

My running commentary on events: local, national, and international. Areas of special interest include Israel, Iraq, and dissidents in the Muslim world.

“Democracy … as Good as Christina Imagined It”

January 13, 2011

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In his speech to the nation last night memorializing the victims of last Sunday’s massacre in Arizona, President Obama did something that may turn out to be epic.

He is a silver-tongued orator. But it was only yesterday evening that...

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Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: “To Them, a Black Person … is an ‘Abid,’ which is a Slave;” Human Rights Groups in Sudan Free Slaves

January 11, 2011

Fighting in Southern Sudan’s disputed Abyei region claimed the lives of more than 30 people over the weekend, but voting that will allow the country’s Southerners – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native...

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Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: “To Them, a Black Person … is an ‘Abid,’ which is a Slave”; Boston Jewish Columnist on the Ground to Free Slaves

January 10, 2011

Fighting in Southern Sudan’s disputed Abyei region claimed the lives of more than 30 people over the weekend, but voting that will allow the country’s Southerners – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native...

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Americans Should Support Today’s Referendum – and Democracy in South Sudan

January 9, 2011

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Today, Sunday January 9th, the people of Southern Sudan will have the chance to vote for independence. Americans of all persuasions should support the democratic process of this long-anticipated vote.

The product of a 2005 Comprehensive...

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Revolutionary Guard in Charge of Puppet A-jad; Alusi Prescient (Again) & Christians Emancipate Themselves

January 3, 2011

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Wikileaks has reported that an officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard slapped Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad across the face recently when Ahmadinejad suggested Tehran ease up on the brutal repression of the press...

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George Clooney Launches Satellite Project to Protect People as Sudan Heads into January 9th Referendum

December 31, 2010

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Actor George Clooney has been making himself useful lately.

All too often, celebrities sound off about issues they know little about, and impressionable people are inclined to ascribe to them greater understanding than they usually...

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Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch Identified as German Journalists Held by Tehran

December 28, 2010

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On Tuesday The New York Times printed the names of Marcus Alfred Rudolf Hellwig, a reporter, and Jens Andreas Koch, a photographer. They have been detained in Iran since October, when they traveled there to cover the story of a woman...

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Countdown to Jubilation in Juba

December 27, 2010

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As the January 9 referendum approaches in Sudan, granting that country’s Southerners the chance to vote for independence and to become the world’s newest nation, signs are mixed. On the one hand, indicted war criminal Omar...

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Sudan’s President Warns Against Secession

December 20, 2010

Ominous indicators out of Khartoum today as the country’s president, an indicted war criminal, warned that should Southerners vote for secession in January 9th’s long-awaited referendum, those Southerners...

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Iran Gets Four S-300 Missiles – From Russia, While U.S. Tuns Blind Eye, Says Morris

December 17, 2010

One of the most disturbing pieces of information commentator Dick Morris shared in his speech last week at the Center for Security Policy’s award lunch was the fact that apparently last month, Iran received four A-300 anti-aircraft...

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