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Category Archives: Arab Spring
The Don & The Darra: US Policy for Syria
Darra is the ancient Syrian city best remembered as the location where Lawrence of Arabia was raped by Otto-mites. Given that 2018 is the centenary anniversary of the Arab Revolt under Lawrence, we need to remember the significance of Syria … Continue reading
Turkey Wages War Against US Led Kurdish Proxies in Syria
Russia and Iran hold nominal sovereignty over Syria. To complicate matters, Kurdish forces and indigenous Syrians trained and led by American forces have created border security guards to alleviate Turkish incursions into northwest Syria. But on Friday, January 19, Turkish … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged Afrin, Arab Spring, Assad, Moscow, Post-War Syria, Putin, Russia, Syria, Turkey
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Tunisia’s 7 Year Itch
Tunisia may be home to the Arab Spring, but the contortions of its political economy mean that most Tunisian’s are giving up on democracy. If it to remain a deferred model for Muslim governance throughout the Arab world, then Tunisian’s … Continue reading
The Key to Consolidating Tunisia’s Arab Spring
When the American’s began their Q.E. monetary experiment, they effectively exported inflation. That destroyed any political economy tethered to the American’s under Bretton Woods. It meant that regimes began importing inflation at record speeds. It meant that most populations in … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged Arab Spring, Labor Unions, Tunisia, UGTT
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French Catholic Priest Beheaded in Syria: Francois Murad Martyred
Last Wednesday evening, after having being taken captive/kidnapped by Sunni terror squads in southern Syrian town of Gassanieh, Father Francois Murad was beheaded in front of children, martyred for his faith; his identity as Christian. We should note that the … Continue reading
Hernando de Soto Defeats Marx: Property Rights, Authoritarian Governments & The Unity of Human Capital and Work
It was John Paul II who grasped more fully than most, the intrinsic value that electric technology had on what was sundered by both the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, namely the total separation of labor and capital. Now united … Continue reading
Dr. Ronald I. McKinnon: The Arab Spring & Loose Money at Federal Reserve
Don’t expect a synoptic approach from arcane specialists. Arnold Toynbee’s massive 12 volumes on the “Study of History” spells out the social and psychological relation between pusillanimity and the pathetic drive to fine a niche from which to survive. This … Continue reading
Syria: American Absence Portends. . .
Power is about the ability and the confidence to choose. Team Obama may think that its outsourcing its incipient strategy to the petro-monarchies of the Gulf. Benghazi should have informed us as to how that’s gonna look. The abject failure … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Iran, Syria
Tagged Assad, foggy bottom, Iran, Patriot Batteries, Syria, Turtle Bay
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Benghazi & How Ideology Blinds
Some years ago I spent time with a Catholic Priest who is Pastor of a Parish in an affluent Westchester County neighborhood; who explained to me his experience of living through the terror attacks that rocked the entire Near East … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Iran, Islam, Near East, Peter Drucker, Politics
Tagged Ambassador Stevens, Benghazi, Benghazi Attack, Concussion Hilary, peter drucker, Richard Nixon
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The Mullah’s & The Bomb
Seventy years ago this past week marks the very first controlled nuclear reaction which took place under the bleachers of the old Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. There America found how to harness the power of the atom … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, Iran, Islam, Near East
Tagged Iran, Mullah's, Nuclear Iran, Persia, Satanic Mullah's
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