FEBRUARY 19, 2011 By AMIR TAHERI ‘Hang them! Hang them!” the mob shouted while goose-stepping towards the podium. Some beat their chests and others raised clenched fists. “Allah is the greatest!” chanted the turbaned clerics. This was the scene Tuesday in the Islamic Majlis, Iran’s ersatz parliament. Members raged against the “heads of sedition,” calling
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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Lawrence Kudlow Feb 2 2011 Did Bernanke and ethanol sink Egypt? Decades of autocratic government and a lack of free elections are, of course, the main drivers of the political upheaval in Egypt. But did the sinking dollar and skyrocketing food prices trigger the massive unrest now occurring in
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 In 1979, Western thinkers were quick to call the Ayatollah Khomeini ‘moderate’ and ‘progressive.’ By BRET STEPHENS It’s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a “Times Classic.” On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? The Saudi royal family is corrupt, infirm, increasingly criticized in social media—and about to face a delicate, perhaps divisive succession process. By KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE Riyadh, Saudi Arabia In any authoritarian regime, instability seems unthinkable up to the moment of upheaval, and that is true now
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Will its new government come to resemble Pakistan? Indonesia? Turkey? Or something entirely different? By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Washington So what’s next for Egypt? When people talk about possible outcomes after the collapse of the Mubarak regime, they usually have other Muslim countries in mind. This crisis has been so unexpected that something
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This has the potential of becoming a huge human tidal wave and it is headed straight for Europe! EUROPE NEWS FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Tunisian Influx Taxes Italy By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—Political instability in Tunisia has unleashed a wave of migrants toward Italian shores, igniting a crisis that has exposed the pitfalls of Italy’s reliance on
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Vote monitors trained with funds from US In November, demonstrators decried what they called widespread vote rigging in Egypt’s parliamentary elections. US funds helped train election monitors who observed that election. By Farah Stockman Boston Globe Staff / February 13, 2011 WASHINGTON — A small, controversial effort launched under President George W. Bush
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Published February 10, 2011 | FoxNews.com Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak if the Obama administration tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt, The Times of London reported Thursday. In a testy personal telephone call on Jan. 29, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah reportedly told President Obama
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