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Opinion: The German Election - by Gwynne Dyer
It’s not a question of whether “Mutti” (Mom) will still be in power after the German election this Sunday (September 22). Of course she will: Chancellor Angela Merkel, the "mother of the nation," will soon overtake former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to become the longest-ruling female leader in modern European history. The question is what kind of government she will lead.

Opinion: Syria’s New Game: The Russian Factor -by Ramzy Baroud
Many US media commentators were fairly accurate in labelling some of the language used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his recent New York Times article as ‘hypocritical’. But mainstream US media should be the last to point out anyone’s hypocrisy as it has brazenly endorsed every military intervention unleashed by their country since World War II.

Opinion: The Shortest Path to Peace in Syria - by Nicola Nasser
Because “defensive alliances which have fixed and limited objectives are often more durable,” the “Syria-Iran alliance has survived” more than three decades of unwavering and insistent US – led military, economic, diplomatic and media campaign to dismantle it, but it is still enduring “because it has been primarily defensive in nature” and “aimed largely at neutralizing … Israeli capabilities and preventing American encroachment in the Middle East.”

Opinion: Syria: An Unexpected Rabbit - by Gwynne Dyer
When someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat, it’s natural to be suspicious. Magicians are professionals in deceit – and so are diplomats. But sometimes the rabbit is real.

Opinion: Hamlet on the Potomac - by Gwynne Dyer
The psychodrama in Washington grows ever more bizarre. John Kerry, the Secretary of State, hyperventilates about the disasters that will ensue if the United States does not bomb Syria – but President Barack Obama, having said last year that the use of chemical weapons was a “red line” that Syria must not cross, persistently sabotages Kerry’s case by giving voice to his own sober second thoughts.

Opinion: Jordan Invites US Targets for Syrian Retaliation - by Nicola Nasser
Located at the crossroads of several regional crises, including the Palestinian-Israeli and Iraqi conflicts, Jordan has been in the eye of the Syrian storm for more than thirty months, and managed to navigate safely so far, but the reportedly imminent US strike is pressuring the country between the rock and the hard place of the antagonists of the war on Syria.

Opinion: Syria: The Pretext and the Real Target - by Gwynne Dyer
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” – so the British parliament decided that it didn’t want to be shamed by following another prime minister into another unwinnable war on the basis, yet again, of shoddy intelligence reports. It voted 282-275 against committing British forces to the planned American attack on Syria.

Opinion: Oslo Dead but Still Matters: Abbas Village Leagues and Palestinian Silence: by Ramzy Baroud
Suppose that several armoured vehicles belonging to one branch of the Palestinian Authority’s security apparatus in the West Bank raided an Israeli border village at the eve of a new round of peace negotiations between Israel and the PA. Picture PA President Mahmoud Abbas defending the killings on the ground by stating he was protecting the security of the Palestinian public. Would the Israeli delegation return to the talks with ample handshakes and smiles?

Well Done Minister! Libya Recognises Importance of Tourism
For the first time in more than 40 years, Libya will be trying to exploit its full potential as a tourist destination. The visit the Libyan Minister for Tourism, Ikram Bash Imam made to Malta in the past few days, a trip described as both countries as positive and fruitful, is the first step towards attaining the results one is aiming for.

Opinion: The Subterfuge of Syrian Chemical Weapons - by Nicola Nasser
The US Secretary of State John Kerry on August 26 removed the sword of the alleged Syrian chemical weapons from its sheath and let the snowball of this subterfuge for a military aggression on Syria roll unchecked, raising the stakes from asking whether “it will happen” to “when” it will happen, promising that President Barak Obama “will be making an informed decision about how” to take on Syria and warning not to make a “mistake” because Obama “believes there must be accountability,” making clear that a US-led military action is in the making and imminent.

Opinion: Egypt’s Foreign Relations on Tightrope - by Nicola Nasser
The internal crisis in Egypt has indulged the country in its most critical foreign relations test since these relations were shaped by the US sponsored Camp David accords and the peace treaty with Israel in 1979.

Opinion: The Politics of Death: Human Lives Devalued in the Middle East - by Ramzy Baroud
How many Egyptians have been killed since the January 2011 revolt? My pursuit for exact figures has proven to be futile. Various sources suggest all sorts of numbers, some scrambled in such a way as to make a political point. It is as if the life of the ordinary Egyptian doesn’t matter on its own.

Opinion: Syrian Dilemma - by Gwynne Dyer
If you apply the old test of who benefits from the use of chemical weapons in Syria the answer will certainly be the rebels. They are currently losing ground, have a strong incentive to get the Assad regime blamed for using illegal weapons. If that gets the United States and other Western powers to impose a no-fly zone, or bomb the regime’s military bases, it helps the rebel cause.

Opinion: On Egypt’s Class-Struggle: Rabias of the World Unite - by Ramzy Baroud
"Lord! You know well that my keen desire is to carry out Your commandments and to serve Thee with all my heart, O light of my eyes. If I were free I would pass the whole day and night in prayers. But what should I do when you have made me a slave of a human being?"

Egypt: The Futility of Foreign Intervention - By Gwynne Dyer
It’s a silly question, obviously, but it still has to be asked. What, if anything, should the rest of the world do about the tragedy in Egypt? The same question has been hanging in the air about the even greater Syrian tragedy for well over a year now, and it is starting to come up again in Iraq as well.

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Opinion: Syria’s New Game: The Russian Factor -by Ramzy Baroud
Many US media commentators were fairly accurate in labelling some of the language used by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his recent New York Times article as ‘hypocritical’. But mainstream US media should be the last to point out anyone’s hypocrisy as it has brazenly endorsed every military intervention unleashed by their country since World War II.

Opinion: Syria: An Unexpected Rabbit - by Gwynne Dyer
When someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat, it’s natural to be suspicious. Magicians are professionals in deceit – and so are diplomats. But sometimes the rabbit is real.

 

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