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Middle East Focus: Monthly Archives for August 2011

From Tehran to Riyadh: of Revolutions and Selective Memories………

Iran: Softcore Criticism vs. Hardcore Criticism of the Regime……..

On Libyan Aid, al-Megrahi Mystery, Schumer’s Chutzpah , Iran Air 655, and Billions of Money ………….

Middle East Executions: Twenty Three Maids Waiting in a Row……….

Three Goals of the Libyan (Rebel) TNC, Schmucks Watching Pinocchio..........

Africa, the Arab World, the (New) New Colonialism………….

Libyan Rebels Shoot Khamis Qaddafi for Tenth Time, Turns Out to be Sarkozy Dressed as Beau Geste…..

Iranians Protest for Water and the Environment ………….

Common Arab Epitaph: Brother Leader, Very Rich but Very Cheap…………

On Gulf Intellectuals, Tribal Liberals and Arab Uprisings, the Edifying Hashtag, Oxymoronic Humor………..

Saudi Fear and Loathing.......

Is Iran Hedging on Syria? Saving Assad from his Party................

Ill-Timed Honorary Degree, 23 Women Awaiting Execution……..

Petroleum Rivalries Turning OPEC Upside Down……….

Kim Jong Qaddafi, Kim Jong Iraq, Kim Jong Iran………

Abrams Pissed at Qatar, When in Rome and Carthage………

Return to Tobruk: Liberated Libya, Lucrative Libya………….

Where is Qaddafi? from Dictator to Living Legend or Living Dead?......

Qatar and Libya: Talleyrand Al Thani? Nasser on the Gulf...............

Arabian Peninsula: “Winter Trips” and “Summer Trips”, Liaisons in Yemen ……….

Former Iranian Chief Justice Blasts the West and Turkey…….

Iran's "Guest Worshiper" Solving Palestine: Muslim Clergy, Israeli Clergy, American and French Clergy…….

Go West: Liberating Libya, Managing Arab Uprisings........

WTF about Libya……..

Arab Uprisings: the Mixed Scorecard......

Saudis Discover Ancient Civilization, Shaikhs Prep Bulldozers, Sam Cooke's History……….

Glenn Beck Joins IDF, Ariel Sharon in Lebanon……….

Libya and Israel: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell………….

The Great Arab Revolt of 2011: about T.E. Lawrence, Sykes-Picot, Tiramisu, and Apple Pie……….

The New (More) Islamic Republics of Arabia………

A Wasted Arab Lesson from Qaddafi: on Staying too Long………

Inverted Arabian Haiku Lesson: on “Liberating” Iraq, Libya, Syria, Hijaz, Palestine, etc……….

The Controversy over the Iranian Economy and Western Sanctions………

Venezuela Surpasses Saudi Arabia: Bolivarian Arabian Republic of Chavez………

Economic Jihad or the Moral Equivalent of War? the Ayatollahs and Jimmy Carter……….

UN Lebanon Hariri Tribunal to Extend its Probe to Sabra & Shatila Massacres?………

My Gulf: an Unwanted Prime Minister, a Geriatric Kingdom, no Bingo or Kout Bu Sittah ……

Jihadists Threaten Letterman’s Biggest, Possibly Best, Asset………

King Gets Award from his Nephew, about Kindergarten.………

When Middle East Money meets "Buyable" American Potentates, Iranian Moonies and Kims………….

Iranian Politics: the Hip Faction and the Nerdy Mullahs…………

Dubai General Sees Israel Behind Egyptian Uprising, not Global Warming, Market Crash………….

Sherlock Holmes vs. Poirot in Lebanon: the Hariri STL Legal and Political Non-Event………….

Kingdom of Confusion: Alarabiya Declares, Bassyouni Denies: “no” Crimes Against Humanity…………

Competition over Iraq: a Fatwa on Zero-Sum Tribal Foreign Policies………….

Sigmund Freud and the Hijab: Iran’s Proxy Social and Political Wars………

S & P Gets Downgraded: Better Late than Never, Yugoslavia and Somalia…….

Gulf: a Box of Doughnuts that Unhinged Potentates, Krispy Kreme and Anti-Semitism ………..

Egypt: the People, the Junta, the Vanquished Swine, and the Umayyads of Mecca………..

Miliband and Blair Straddling the Atlantic: Greedy, Selfish, and Immoral……….

Libyan "Rebel" Factions Fight over the Pie: Qaddafi-ism, Mubarak-ism, Arab-ism…………..

On the Gulf: Whitehall and the Dream, Amahl and……..

FIFA On My Gulf: a Blood Sport of Royals and Potentates……..

Between Englistan and Pakistan and Hindustan: Ahmadinejad Migrating to Tajikistan?………….

Britain: Cameron Wants American Police Chief, what about Blackwater and UAE?.............

The West’s Very Own Oil Wars on the Middle East………….

Street Children of Cairo: a Legacy of Mubarak and his Allies……………

Theocratic Iran Honors an American Woman………..

A Republican Opines on Iran and Nuclear Power………..

Iran in Syria: New Base or Old Facility in Latakia? About the West……………

An Iranian Advice for American Republicans and Democrats: It is the Economy, Ya Ghabi……..

The London Uprising, French Fascism: the Fire this Time, the Fire Next Time……….

Sectarianism and Terrorism: Pakistan and Two Distant Neighbors………

Naked Libyan Factions: Onward and Forward to the Past………….

Gulf GCC Leaders to Meet Captain Kirk and Spock and Maybe some Klingons……..

Gulf: Qatar and Human Rights Groups Added to Iran and Hezbollah in 35-Year World Plot…………

British Unrest: will Cameron Ban the Burq’a, Block Twitter, and Seek Gulf Mercenary Help?...........

More on Arab Humor, an Egyptian Icon Passes Away…………..

Bahrain: Leader for Democracy, a U.S. Diplomat with Semitic Roots……….

Fear Mongering: Liz and Dick and the Princes and the Potentates and Ground Zero…………

On the Gulf: a Hezbollah Agent, a Friend of the US State Department……

Indonesians Gone Sour on Wahhabism? Twenty More Heads to Chop……….

UAE Mercenary Legion to Patrol Libyan Cities?.........

Uber-Chutzpah: what Standard & Poor’s has in Common with Arab Regimes………

Re-Arming Iraq and SOFA: What the Gulf Neighbors Think……….

King Al Capone of Saudi Arabia……………..

Buying America: A New Rich Iranian Cult in Washington with Deep Pockets……….

Was Hillary Right? the Threat of a Quasi-Military Dictatorship in Iran………

Egypt: The Military Giveth and the Military Taketh Away………

On My Gulf: The King Giveth and the King Taketh Away……….

Syria Divided: Arab Spring, Arab Toothpaste………….

Saudi Anti-Terror Law subject to Revision? About U.S. Bible Belt Worries...........

Reverse Tea Party of Tel Aviv, the Cleric against the World Plot………..

Iran’s Military-Industrial-Clergy Complex……..

Photoshop of Facts in Bahrain: Where the Buck Does not Stop…………

Arab Revolutions and Oligarchs: with a Little Help from their Friends…….

The Lehman Precedent and Goldman’s Catharsis: WTF Rates Standard & Poor ?.............

GCC: Two Sweet Princes Exchange Notes……………

The Suspiciously Lusty Ramadan Ghosts of Dubai……..

Terror-Based Health Care in Bahrain…………..

Political Advertisement: Syrian Uprising Spills over into Lebanon…………

Libya: Shades of the Spanish Civil War, but who Plays the Luftwaffe?

Saudi Torquemada: Media Obsession with Jewish Roots……………

White House and U.S. Congress Engineer another Market Crash………….

Another Unsolved Murder in Iran: Mystery of the Indispensable Nuclear Student………

Young Qaddafi Playing Poker with the West………..

On Iraq Sanctions, Iran Sanctions, Cuba Sanctions, Smart Sanctions, Asinine Sanctions, ………….

Ramadan on the Gulf: Potentates Potentate-ing, Shaikh-ing it………….

Congo and Darfur on the Gulf: Spitting, Urinating, Image of a Monarchy………….

Saudi Arabia: a Political Statement or a Twenty Billion Dollar Phallic Symbol………..

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