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Is Climate Victory to Change a Word or the World?

From On December 4, 2012 · 3 Comments

You would never know I am an urgent, existential issue threatening human civilisation at the U.N. climate summit here in the final week in Doha. It is more like a trade negotiation, where hard-fought agreement to change the word “shall” to “may” in a document is considered progress.

Victory here is to change a word, [...]

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Karon: false choice between Iran and the US for Arab states

From On February 27, 2011 · 3 Comments

Tony Karon has a nice analysis up at Abu Dhabi’s the National. Many pundits in the U.S. have delivered the verdict that Iran won in the Arab uprisings. But Karon spots a false choice, and once again Turkey is the critical example.

Karon:

Viewed through the prism of a zero-sum conflict between a [...]

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Actual Expert: Iraq War Set Back Tunisia and Egypt

From On February 5, 2011 · 2 Comments

Via Matt Duss’s twitter, Shibley Tehlami, a real expert on the Arab World, batters the already bruised neocon revisionists:

When the Bush administration used the Iraq War as a vehicle to spread democratic change in the Middle East, anger with the United States on foreign policy issues — particularly Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict [...]

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