Arabia Deserta 
Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Monthly Archives for December 2009

Last Refuge of Scoundrels and Oligarchies?……….

Washington Flirting with the Baath, Gulf History Being Rewritten, Fools Who Never Learn..........

A Malaysian Voice from the Past Expects War on Iran………………

A Huthi-Saudi Détente?..............

Liar Liar, a Country on Fire……………….

Angola in Nineveh, Who would Have Thunk It? …………….

The CIA Massacre: It is the Pashtuns, Stupid……..

Hezbollah’s New Year List…………….

The Red Line in Tehran, Iran Reports Mausavi and Karroubi Free in Town…………..

Is a Shalit-Siege Deal Near? What About the Mubarak Wall?.............

First Camel Jockeys, Early Camel Drivers………….

Clash of Imam and Shaikh, the Heretic Sinner vs. the Salafi…………….

Light in the Tunnel: Ashura in the Homeland of Salafism……………..

The Illusion of “Afghanistan”, An Intersection of Ethnic Comfort Zones……………

They are All Dicks (Cheney), Rooting for Torture………….

Even Aljazeera Sees Through Republican “Patriotism” Posturing……………

A Shah in his Labyrinth: Not the Thatcher They Knew…………

The Mubarak Wall, Cruel Joke of the Week………..

West Bank Americans: Settlers with Two Homes and Two Passports, Natives with no Homes and No Passports…………

A Travesty of Democracy, Strasbourg of Arabia…………

Nuclear Spies and Goyim Women, What Arab Oligarchs Have Taught the Jews (Well, Israelis).........

What Happened on the Iran-Iraq Border……………..

A Tale of Different Cities, Tehran, Cairo, Amman, Damascus, and others……….

Aljazeera and Gaza (un an plus tard), Will US Congress Add it to “the Brown List”?..............

Sharecroppers and Potentates of Jeddah, No Seppuku in Arabia…………

The Ides of Next February in Iran.......

Shaikhs Cancel New Year’s Celebrations Overseas…………

Fatwa on the Nile: Till Swine Flu Do Us Part, or HIV, or ED, or…….

Iraq Exposes Arab Hypocrisy and Helplessness……………..

Airstrikes that Never Fail..........

Religious Pain in Egypt: He Got a Name…….

Egyptian Asses Provoke Sectarian Tensions, Asinine Arrests Made………….

The Dubious Joys of Witchcraft ………….

The End of Khomeini-ism?………

The Glory that was Al-Qaeda? About Outsourcing, Yemen on their Minds.................

Wise Saudi Decision? When to Hold ‘em, When to Fold ‘em……..

Gulf Media again Claim War Imminent, Egyptians to the Rescue?…………….

Iranian Nuclear Game Continues………..

Another Man of the Year, God of Goldman Sachs, God of America………

Steel Wall of Gaza, What would Reagan Say about “this Wall”…………….

The Americanization of Jesus, the Vulgarization of Jesus.............

Film Festivals, Iranian Chutzpah……………..

The Bin Laden Eighteen, Captives of Three Fundamentalisms…………….

An Idiot’s Guide to Victory Over Iran.........

An Arab Network for Human Rights Information…………..

Internet Prisoners of Conscience, a Rebellious Message?…………..

US Congress Censoring the Whole World, or Just the Middle East?.............

Iranian Opposition Wages a Monetary Guerrilla War……………

In Praise of a Tenacious Dictator……….

Ambitions of Women: Praying in Jerusalem, Driving in Riyadh, Clubbing in Tehran?………

The Coming OPEC Wars…………..

Arab Thought Foundation, A Status Quo Foundation: Part II…….

Arab Thought Foundation, Arab Status Quo Foundation: Part I………

Pissed Ahmadinejad Sacks Defiant Mousavi…………

Two Generations Late, Bethlehem Rocks, About the Missing Humor…………

Ghosts of Genocides Past: A Tainted Saint? A Misunderestimated Saint?…….

Of Royal Fathers and Royal Sons, of Entitlements and Arab Meritocracy……..

Succession in a Land of Kingdom Come, Or Maybe Not………

Refuge of Scoundrels and Ambitious Politicians, Minnesota’s Cross-dressing Female Teachers……....

Little Thieves, Big Thieves, Shoplifters, Banksters, Lobbyists, Priests…………..

Of Inbred Princes and Purebred Horses…….

Al-Qaeda Muddies the Water, in Qat Country………….

Iranian Denials 2009, Iraqi Denials 2003………….

Christmas Wish of a Former General, His Masters’ Last Great “White” Hope………….

Welcome to the Other Middle East………

Why Arabs Doubt U S Congress, of Free Speech and Abandoned Backbones on the Jordan…………

The Bin Ladens of Tehran: Pawns, Hostages, or Refugees……….

Cleric Funeral Rejuvenates Iran Protests, Tehran Goes ‘Arab” with Foreign Media………

Missing Scientists in a New Cold War, Iran and the West. ………

A Naked Maverick: Health Care and Unsavory Practices, a Most Unmavericky Senator………..

Olympia Snowe: When History Calls, Nothing Happens?..........

Discrete Charms of the Lobbyists: Persons of the Year, Persons of Our Era…………….

Speaking of Bunker Busters, Cluster Bombs, and Discrimination……..

An Economic Solution for Gaza, Swiss Cheese and Bunker Busters…….....

A Democratic Ayatollah Passes Away, the Iranian Who Almost………..

Will Justice be Done in Tehran? The Prison Murders........

My Pet Goat Gets Even, of Dutch Goats and Egyptian Pigs………….

Cuban Democracy, Arab Democracy, Going to Prison, Going Under the Sword………….

How to Flog a Grandmother? Send Her to Saudi Arabia……....

Cruel Punishment: Forcibly Dressed in Drag in Tehran……

The Thrill is Gone, Chavez-Obama Honeymoon Over........

Ahmadinejad ‘Denies’ It, Iranian Television Often Affirms It, What is It?.....

Rebels’ Half Truth, Sanaa’s Half Lie, the True US Role……

Iran Denies, Iraq Confirms, Neocons on Warpath………..

Smearing El-Baradei, Challenger to Little Pharaoh, Challenger to Napping Old Pharaoh………….

Financial Times and Iran, the Urgency of Midterm Elections, Where Now is Never……………..

Ultimate Output Recycling in India, Holy Cows, Ordinary Bull, and Leaders..………..

Unsettled Borders, Unsettled Politics, Oil is the Word………

Twitter Invaded, Iranians Do a Chinese…….....

Israel and Iran Alone Again Naturally, the Ike and Chiang Precedent?………

Now We Can Sleep Better, Nuclear Shaikhs, Nuclear Mullahs...........

Of Mosques and G-men……………..

A Saudi-American Offer the Chinese Could Refuse…

Ayalon Makes Pitch for Saudis, What About the Settlements (Stupid)?.......

Ahmadinejad Opines on Climate Change, Pitches for Nuclear Power………..

Servile Acolytes of Arabian Media, Canonizing a Living Absolute King, Spreading the Bull......

Beset by Cartels: Mexican Drugs, American Pharma and Insurance, Banksters’ Lobbyists, OPEC a Pussycat?.......

Yemen Dictator Eyeing US Military Help, Claims al-Qaeda Raid……....

Feltman Exposes the Truth about Gaza Wall, Watermelon Security of Egypt........

Gulfie Delayed, GCC Common Currency Put Off Some Years…………

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