The UN’s Human Rights Council released an unedited version of a 220-page report on Friday detailing Muammar Gaddafi’s last hours when rebel fighters moved into Sirte… Continue reading
What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi… Continue reading
In a nod to his father’s dream to serve as grand regional mediator… Continue reading
According to a local Libyan political observer the Qaddafi family has been in a tailspin lately… Continue reading
Questions swirl around the death outside Sirte Thursday of Muammar Qaddafi… Continue reading
The world’s longest ruling head of state, Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi (the correct transliteration of his name), would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on… Continue reading
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest pronouncements are just plain horrifying. Consider what she said… Continue reading
The U.S. won’t support any Fatah-Hamas government that includes Hamas unless the Islamist Jihadi group reforms… Continue reading
As I predicted yesterday, the Syrian government has now started a full-scale violent crackdown against oppositionists… Continue reading
Today [April 23] Syria has entered its biggest internal crisis since 1970. The regime has come out to crush the… Continue reading
Here’s what’s happening now in Libya… Continue reading
An Australian reporter writes the following from Libya… Continue reading
People in English-speaking countries are often horrified and outraged by what’s published in their language’s mass media… Continue reading
Engaging in Middle East studies, as Lawrence says about putting your hand in a flame, hurts. The trick “is not minding that it hurts” and… Continue reading
The Western intervention in Libya is the kind of thing that makes governments feel good and look good… Continue reading
It’s official. The Obama Administration won’t do anything at all to help the Syrian people against the Bashar al-Asad dictatorship… Continue reading
For several years I’ve been telling you that under its current Islamist regime, Turkey has become less and less of a democratic state… Continue reading
Should the United States and Europe want Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi out of power? Sure. But the real question is… Continue reading
Events are happening so fast that I can only summarize, trying to add some analytical depth to each development. So here goes… Continue reading
Here’s an (self)interview by Barry Rubin with Barry Rubin about what’s happening in Libya and U.S. foreign policy… Continue reading
The Libyan people will take up arms against Western powers if they seek to enforce a no-fly zone in their country’s airspace… Continue reading
I think I was the first person to warn that the Egyptian revolution wasn’t all roses but also had a dangerous amount of thorns… Continue reading
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for an immediate end to violent repression of Libya protests in a… Continue reading
Ugandan President Museveni said Libyan President Qadhafi “is a problem” for the continent and is pushing for the creation of a “United States of Africa” to be governed by one president. Museveni noted that tensions… Continue reading
Diplomats, a British ambassador explained several centuries ago, are gentlemen sent abroad to lie for their country. I’d add that the problems start when they start to lie on behalf of other countries, while the disaster begins when they start to lie for… Continue reading
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