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Tag 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
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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
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Tagged Arab Spring, Labor Unions, Tunisia, UGTT
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Morsi: Toast; Obama: Smoked!!
The dynamics of inept American statecraft were on display today, but you won’t hear it on the networks. General Sisi, appointed by Morsi, gave him 48 hours to engage and settle what the Supreme Council interpreted as a fatal problem: … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, Egypt, Egypt Brotherhood, Morsi, Sisi, Supreme Council
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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
The Arab Spring & Remembrance Of Things Past
The remembrance of things past is dominated by Proust, but cultures like China and its Confucian heritage along with Arabia and most of Africa still resolve themselves around a humanist grasp of memory. The ‘East’ is known as a land … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, Foaud Ajami, Reversal, Sophocles
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How To Discern The Arab Spring: Teheran vs. Riyadh
Henry Kissenger once remarked that the “greatest statesmen are distinguished less by their detailed knowledge than by their instinctive grasp of historical currents, by an ability to discern amidst the myriad of impressions that impinge on consciousness those most likely … Continue reading
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Assad, Syria: The Political Purge, Reloading
Anyone even remotely familiar with Near Eastern politics knows that the House of Saud is waging war against Iranian proxies throughout the region. Its a ‘balance of power’ strategy that explains Riyadh and Iranian behavior. They’re realists who understand how … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, International Relations, Islam, Middle East Peace, Near East, Politics, Terrorism
Tagged American isolates Syria, Arab Spring, Assad, Buthania Shaaban, foggy bottom, Idealism, Iran, Naji al Atri, Near East Policy, Pelosi, Proxies, Realism, Riyadh, Strategic Alliance, Strategy, Walid al Muallim
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