The latest anti-Israel film comes out of Egypt, and this one’s garnering significant attention throughout the Arab world. The film, Welad Ela’am, depicts an Egyptian woman who falls in love with an Israeli Mossad agent in disguise. He then drugs her and their children to transfer them to a Tel Aviv suburb against their will. […]
Overview: Iran dominated the headlines in 2009. While Iranians inspired us with their fight for their right to have fair elections, the Iranian government kept on disappointing us with their crackdown on post-election protests and their controversial nuclear program. The 2009 Iranian presidential election between Ahmadinejad and Moussavi generated an unprecedented level of anticipation. The […]
The relatively unknown Brit, former EU Trade Commissioner and UK minister, Baroness Catherine Ashton was selected last month to be the European Union’s first official High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The move came following the approval of the Lisbon Treaty, held up for almost a year by countries like Ireland and the […]
As if menacing its own people is not enough, Guinea’s military junta is now getting chesty with the international community at large. The military leaders have vowed to defeat any “preventive deployment” of troops that might come as the result of internatonal intervention in the country’s affairs. “We will consider such deployment as a declaration of war against […]
Zainab Jeewanjee reports on Pakistan’s supreme court ruling that the National Reconciliation Ordinance be overturned. Originally put in place by General Pervez Musharraf, NRO will re-open thousands of top government officials corruption cases, but makes current President Asif Ali Zardari the main target of this ruling. Zainab Jeewanjee reports this is politicking in Pakistan as the Supreme Court’s ambitions may be more than noble: as the Foreign Policy Magazine notes, they could be a means to settling a political score with current leadership.
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” Oscar Wilde National Reconciliation Ordinance was declared null and void by Pakistan’s Supreme Court under the questionable leadership of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, a man many believe to be inspiring for a higher office. As soon as the news […]
Like James Dean, Yegor Gaidar lived hard and died young. But unlike Dean, the only victim of whose reckless driving was himself, the man who privatised Russia’s economy in the 1990s took his entire young country on a deadly joyride that wrecked millions of lives. That’s no hyperbole: The Lancet has determined that the Gaidar-engineered […]
A random story, but the NYT recently covered grave-robbing in Caracas, which is apparently on the rise, and as are many negative social indicators there these days. The bones are sold for use in a religion called Palo, originating with Cubans who migrated to Venezuela decades ago. Some of those interviewed for the story wonder […]
The biggest economic news in Israel these days has nothing to do with the following post. Just clarifying. The Bank of Israel is revamping the country’s money to include images of former Prime Minster and peace process visionary Yitzhak Rabin and former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who spearheaded peace efforts with Egypt. The inclusion of […]
Taking a lesson from Barack Obama’s tech-savvy presidential campaign last year Kenya plans to use text messaging to promote the East African Community Common Market. The goal of the campaign is twofold. Its advocates want to sell the idea, but they also want to educate people about it, as they fear that not enopugh Kenyans […]
US military officials ceremoniously handed over five helicopters to the Mexican air force on Tuesday, part of the Merida Initiative. Aircraft account for half of the $1.3 billion aid package, signed in 2007, designed to help the Mexican government combat drug traffickers. But 15 other aircraft slated for delivery likely won’t arrive until 2011. As […]
First, some Afghan surge strategy news. Lt. Gen. David Rodriquez, the day-to-day commander of US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan provided a first glimpse of the actual implementation of the new strategy involving the addition of 30,000 more troops. In regard to the deployment of the thousands of surge troops, Rodriquez stated; “It will happen […]
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