Middle East

OBAMA’S GAS PRICE MIGRAINE

MARCH 4, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The Obama administration has its share of headaches: a possible government shutdown, Arab unrest, the union uprising. The real migraine may be a firestorm over gasoline prices. Oil last week topped $100 a barrel, and gas has hit $4 a gallon in pockets of the country. The price

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TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT AMERICAN OIL

MARCH 3, 2011 Why is Washington blocking oil exploration in states like Alaska and Louisiana when the Middle East is such a powder keg? By SEAN PARNELL,  governor of Alaska The revolution that began in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, and is now dramatically unfolding in Libya is far from over. The events in North Africa

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MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAS LONG BEEN ORGANIZING TO TAKE OVER EGYPTIAN PROFESSIONAL GUILDS OF MEDICINE, ENGINEERING, LAW AND JOURNALISM

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Professional Islamists The Muslim Brotherhood’s long march through the institutions. Stephen Schwartz February 21, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 22 The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, or al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, is more than a radical network, comparable to al Qaeda; more than an ideological phenomenon, like the followers of Khomeini in the 1979

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THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS CAUSING TURMOIL ABROAD

FEBRUARY 23, 2011 Few protesters in the Middle East connect rising food prices to U.S. monetary policy. But central bankers do. By GEORGE MELLOAN In accounts of the political unrest sweeping through the Middle East, one factor, inflation, deserves more attention. Nothing can be more demoralizing to people at the low end of the income

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FINALLY, ARAB UNREST STUNS MARKETS!

FEBRUARY 22, 2011, 11:56 P.M. ET Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Oil Soars, Stocks Fall as Libyan Rebels Take Energy Zone; Shipments Are Halted By LIAM PLEVEN, JONATHAN CHENG And GUY CHAZAN Libya’s descent into violence rattled global financial markets Tuesday, sending oil prices surging to their biggest gain in more than two years and driving

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THE U.S. CAN HELP LIBYANS DEFEAT GADHAFI – PAUL WOLFOWITZ

FEBRUARY 22, 2011 The U.S. Can Help Libyans Defeat Gadhafi If mercenaries are arriving to save the dictator, the U.S. and U.N. need to mobilize to stop the slaughter. By PAUL WOLFOWITZ EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Later on Sunday the State Department started to play catch-up, issuing a statement that called upon Libyan officials to

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BEIJING AND THE ARAB REVOLT

February 22, 2011 What has happened in Bahrain is a tiny but telling shot across China’s gigantic bow. By BRET STEPHENS Bahrain is an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf with a population of about 1.2 million. The People’s Republic of China is 12,000 times as large and 1,000 times as populous. Yet what is

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