Tag Archives: arab spring

when the revolution comes

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Dave

How is it that after the Arab Spring, the regimes in place seem committed to the same repression that preceded it. In fact it may have opened the lid on a pandora’s box of thousands of wacko religious nuts going … Continue reading →

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obamarama: once upon a time in the west

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dave

Barack Obama and the slogan for 2012: “Go Forward” well defined theme that captures the leftist messianism that seems so misguided, corrupted and dysfunctional. A messianic pursuit of secular divinity and backed by trashy rags like the New York Times, … Continue reading →

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ties that cement

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

Power is essentially centralized within a very limited circle in Israel and the Palestinian authority and they are both jealously guard it and maintain it. In fact, there is a certain complicity, a conjunction of interests, some readily apparent in … Continue reading →

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another one bites the dust

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Dave

Another Black September? Apparently the Arab Spring is far from over and the next domino to be toppled may be Jordan. According to some reports, King Abdullah is losing public support through efforts to make structural changes in Jordanian society, … Continue reading →

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sympathy for the unwashed: springtime for voltaire?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Voltaire. The name conjures up many associations. Intelligent, radical, revolutionary. But who really was Voltaire? …. He was not, as has been said,a profound thinker. He taught men to question every legend, every conventional idea transmitted to them by their … Continue reading →