Monthly Archives: April 2010

Shawarma and Peace process, Jordan can’t have it both ways

It wasn’t Rupert Murdoch’s bap­tism in Jor­dan River only, the Jor­dan­ian King­dom pre­pared for Murdoch’s arrival with a wave of pro-Israel pro­pa­ganda. Shawarma take­away shops in Jor­dan are sell­ing their sand­wiches wrapped in printed papers, the text says “Peace process … Con­tinue read­ing

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What the Sadrists referendum means?

In press con­fer­ence in Najaf, Sadrists “Salah Al-Ubaidi” announced the results of the ref­er­en­dum and it came as the fol­low­ing: Al-Ja’afari 24%, Ja’afar Al-Sadr 23%, Kusai Al-Suhail 17%, Al-Maliki 10%, Allawi 9%, Cha­l­abi 3%, Adil Abd Al-Mahdi 2%, Al-Isawi 1%, … Con­tinue read­ing

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The U.S. movements to resettle the Palestinian refugees

Prob­a­bly, this explains why the King Abdul­lah of Jor­dan, renewed his call fora seri­ous U.S. medi­a­tion in the Mid­dle East. Accord­ing to Pal­to­day, the U.S. admin­is­tra­tion sent a spe­cial to a num­ber of the Arab coun­tries includ­ing Saudi Ara­bia to dis­cuss … Con­tinue read­ing

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More on the U.S. soldiers killing civilians in Iraq — the forgotten videos

Col­lat­eral Mur­der” is one of many video clips show U.S. occu­pa­tion forces killing inno­cent Iraqi civil­ians. Back in 2007 I released a video of U.S. forces used a two machine guns to shoot Iraqis for fun. The video is removed by … Con­tinue read­ing

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The dispute over the presidency in Iraq

Every now and then, Vice-President Tariq Al-Hashimi repeats his call for an Arab Pres­i­dent in Iraq and not a Kurd, but in the com­ing four years the Pres­i­dent posi­tion will be a pow­er­less hon­orary posi­tion, then why the Kurds insist … Con­tinue read­ing

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The real test behind Al-Sadr referendum

Poorly cov­ered in the media, but as I expected the Sadrists vis­ited Saudi Ara­bia (with Syr­ian medi­a­tion) and met with the Saudi FM Saud Al-Faisal. At the same time, some angry west­ern media crit­i­cized the Sadrists ref­er­en­dum say­ing: Since then … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq-Lebanon power sharing comparison

Since the occu­pa­tion of Iraq in 2003, many arti­cles appeared about the polit­i­cal power shar­ing sim­i­lar­ity” between Iraq and Lebanon, and the last arti­cle appeared two days ago on the “Guardian” “Lebanon as a model for Iraq” ~ James Denselow-31 … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadrists still pulling the strings, Allawi left with no options

Out of the sud­den, both Shi­ite coali­tions started to soften their words and “flirt” with Allawi, Ammar Al-Hakim in this video clip [Ara­bic] says the fol­low­ing: There will be no gov­ern­ment with­out Allawi .. He is our part­ner in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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