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Saddam and Qaddafi, a Path to Pulitzer, a Path to Nobel, Happy Halloween…….
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10/31/2009 8:41 PM
Clinton and Iran: the Thrill is not Gone…………
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10/31/2009 8:23 PM
Saudi Views on Iran WMD………..
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10/31/2009 5:54 PM
One Middle East View on Iran WMD………
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10/31/2009 5:35 PM
Pro-Israel Lobbies, Will J Street Dethrone AIPAC?.............
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10/31/2009 12:44 PM
Ghosts of IRA, A Season of Libyan Money, a Season of European Extortion, Why Not Boston……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/31/2009 11:35 AM
Politicizing the Hajj, Ahmadinejad in Toga and Cuirass…………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/31/2009 9:33 AM
Clinton in Tehran and Islamabad, a Worthless War, Another Blackwater War……………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/31/2009 8:03 AM
North African Donkeys, Unwise Corporate Asses, Government Asses…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/30/2009 8:32 PM
Wild West Years in Iraq, War Scandals, Old New Barbarians, It Takes a Thief………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/30/2009 2:01 PM
Rashomon in Gaza, Three Tales of One War……….
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10/30/2009 12:15 PM
Zamzam Arrives, Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrivé, France and Arabia……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/30/2009 11:05 AM
Gaza Football League, Hamas Cheerless Leaders, Taliban and NFC in the Pacific Northwest………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/30/2009 9:15 AM
Hajj 2009, Mecca and Jerusalem, Revenge of the Shunned Pigs……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/30/2009 8:32 AM
Christmas at the Bin Ladens, No AYSO Games……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/29/2009 8:02 PM
The Pope and the Mullahs, Eggs Benedict and Turbans Flambe………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/29/2009 3:53 PM
Islamist Politics and Single Mums of Malaysia…………….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/29/2009 10:44 AM
Analysis of a Housemaid Issue in the Gulf, Sarah’s Joe, Lucky Guzzler Dog………….
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10/29/2009 10:20 AM
Feminists, Concubines, Middle East Political Eunuchs………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/29/2009 8:28 AM
Iran’s Wild Southwest, Cultural Heritage Destroyed, Mullahs Go Taliban……….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/28/2009 5:55 PM
Lieberman, American Health Care, Israeli Health Care, American Right Wing, Israeli Left Wing……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/28/2009 12:17 PM
Hezbullah Plot Against America, a Handgun, a Box of Ammunition, a B Movie..……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/28/2009 8:32 AM
Faith and Disease, Old Testament, New Testament, Our Testament…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/28/2009 7:22 AM
Palestinian Elections, Saudi Elections………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/28/2009 6:59 AM
Custodian of the One Holy Mosque, Notre Dame and the Grand Mosque of Algiers…….
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10/28/2009 6:51 AM
Sibling Spies of Kabul and Havana...........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/27/2009 7:42 PM
Casus Belli, New Lockerbie Investigation and Ghosts of Iran Air 655, How a Westerner is Worth 50 Times More…………
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10/27/2009 11:04 AM
NATO Split on Iran, Straight Turk Express? Moving Forward to the Past..................
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/27/2009 8:53 AM
Iraq is Worse than it Looks, Kim Jong-Il, Israel, Nabati Poets Society………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/27/2009 6:50 AM
Iran the Atomic Flavor of This Year and Next…………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/26/2009 8:17 PM
Archaeology Wahhabi Style, History Evicted for Profits……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/26/2009 7:39 PM
Saudi Reporter Evades a Whippping, Ikhwani Judge Gets Royal Order………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/26/2009 3:27 PM
Beau Geste of the Persian Gulf, the Ballad of Sarkozy and Obama, OTAN…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/26/2009 11:51 AM
A Woody Allen Effect, Arab Election Shock and Awe, Running for office, Sitting on Office, Smothering …………….
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10/26/2009 6:16 AM
Iran Accuses Big Satan, Medium Satan, and Two Neighbors……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 5:30 PM
Religious Police Tries Sexy New Look, Try Madison Avenue……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 5:04 PM
Bombers of Iraq, Trains of Egypt, Cows of Ranjipur………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 12:12 PM
Qaddafi’s Nuclear Logic, Conventional Victories, Unconventional Defeats, Pax Arabiana………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 11:10 AM
Euphrates, Tigris, and a River of Blood……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 9:33 AM
Afghan Green Coat of Many Colors, the Tajik Peter Lorre, General Thieu of Kabul……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 9:22 AM
Financial Crisis: Collateral Damage, Collateral Beneficiaries, a Bullet Theory…………….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/25/2009 8:53 AM
New Iran Aggression Reported, Balmer Goes Bald, Gates Goes Neuman……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/24/2009 5:31 PM
A Genocidal War of Yemeni Succession, Arab Oligarchs Cheer, West is Silent……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/24/2009 3:43 PM
North to Nineveh, Reshaping Eyeraq…..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/24/2009 11:14 AM
A League of ‘Democratic’ Arab Oligarchies, Making a Case Against Freedom………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/24/2009 10:34 AM
True Love in Tehran………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/24/2009 9:24 AM
Qaddafi Spreading the Bull, Ahmadinejad the Humble?..........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/23/2009 3:45 PM
Financial Brain Drain, Quick Buck Brains, Flush Them with Drano………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/23/2009 11:25 AM
Two Elderly Ladies, an Umrah Pilgrimage, a Royal Usurpation of a Rare Victory……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/23/2009 11:04 AM
A State of Siege: Financial Pearl Harbor, Muslim Spies, Israeli Spies, Four Moronic Congressmen of Apocalypse..……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/23/2009 10:23 AM
Financial Non-Reform, Untouchables Soiled, Eliot Ness is Dead……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/23/2009 8:36 AM
Rising Arab 'Berlin' Walls, Saada Wall, Iraq Walls, Israeli Wall, Globalization and De-Arabization………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/23/2009 7:15 AM
A Reluctant King: More Political Tensions on the Gulf……………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/22/2009 8:01 PM
Iranian Threats, Mullah Admirals, Arab Potemkin Navies, Somali Pirates, Horn of Africa……….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/22/2009 5:17 PM
Quayle-ing Dick Cheney, Redrafting Cheney, Endangered Friends……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/22/2009 12:56 PM
A Baghdad Embassy, Shady Contractors and Pliant Supervisors, America’s Banditry Years, a Goldman Man and a Nun’s Donkey………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/22/2009 8:50 AM
Hezbullah and Michelle Sisson: Not a Love Story…………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/22/2009 7:27 AM
The Freest Couple in All Arabia, a Rare Gulf Love Story……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/22/2009 6:46 AM
American States with a Dubious Distinction, Unchaste Bible Belt, Sarah's Mate.........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/21/2009 1:14 PM
Algeria, the President, the Peasants, the Impossible Insult……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/21/2009 12:00 PM
White Man’s War, Dark Man’s War, Clean War, Dirty War………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/21/2009 10:13 AM
Econometrics of Petroleum and Sex, Price of crude and Summer Weddings……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/21/2009 8:15 AM
Goldman Sachs Speak, New Finance Speak, Big Brother of America, Dream Killers of America………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/21/2009 7:23 AM
Mideast War Camp Pinning Hopes on Tail to Wag Dog, Will Israel Oblige? Will Dog Oblige...........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 4:34 PM
Hezbullah and Israel, Liberating Hummus and Falafel, Protecting Tabbouleh, Baba Ghanouj Endangered……………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 1:33 PM
Chatting and Sinning in Jordan, The Joys of Being Surly on a Desert Island……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 12:04 PM
Assad Pinup Photos Shock King Abdullah, Financing Democracy Abroad, Fighting Democracy at Home…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 9:32 AM
Sistani and Khamenei, Tito and Stalin, De Gaulle and LBJ……………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 8:56 AM
Henry VIII Returns to Rome, What About Spain, Shi’as, and Sunnis, Crowned Heads...........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 8:21 AM
A Call to War, a Call to Bombers, a Cold French Dou.......Shower……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 7:54 AM
Book Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, History Cleansing………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 7:38 AM
Republicans for Rape? Taliban in DC......
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/20/2009 6:53 AM
In Defense of (Most) Economists, the Crash of 2008...............
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/19/2009 6:31 PM
Counting Bean Out, Swine Flu and Banking Reform……………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/19/2009 1:07 PM
Facebook and Pitchforks, Dictators and Non-Elections, Platters Go Egyptian..........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/19/2009 12:48 PM
New American Plutocracy Trumps American Democracy, An Illusory Party.....…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/19/2009 8:41 AM
Israel Plans to Devour Hungary and the World, Philosophers, Anti-Semites, and Idiots …….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/19/2009 8:12 AM
Iraqis Seek Nuremburg Style Mass Trials of Foreign Leaders....……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/19/2009 7:46 AM
Another Corrupt Gatekeeper: Et Tu Moody’s?..........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/18/2009 6:14 PM
Loving Guantanamo, a Thorn in the Throat, What the Secret Service Can Learn from Saudis….…..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/18/2009 12:13 PM
The Hub of World Terrorism, al-Qaeda and Jundullah, Mission for DeMint...………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/18/2009 10:55 AM
Gulf Monetary Union, Choice of a City Without Soul, Oman as the English Bride……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/18/2009 8:32 AM
To Strike or not to Strike (Iran), To Sanction or Not to Sanction……….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/17/2009 8:20 PM
Colonel Qaddafi to Rule the World, Son to Rule Libya……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/17/2009 8:01 PM
Roughing it With Bin Laden, Evil One of Waziristan, Clueless One of Texas, Tora Bora and Harvard MBA.........
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/17/2009 3:15 PM
Kuwait Politics: Entitlement Politics, Plutocrats against Demographics, Cerebrally Challenged Politics………….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/17/2009 10:15 AM
Saudi-Syrian Divide: Back to Square One…………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/17/2009 9:09 AM
An Australian Nuclear Fantasy? ……………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/17/2009 8:07 AM
Where in the World of Nuclear Physics is Shahram Amiri………….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 8:49 PM
Why the Taliban Ride Mules, Cost of Gasoline in Kandahar, the Deficit.………..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 2:46 PM
American Banks, Dumb Silent Majority, Banking on Risk-based Heaven and Basel…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 1:55 PM
A Halloween Succession in Egypt, Trick or Treat for Baby.............
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 12:32 PM
Islamic Liberation with a Twist, Topless in Somalia……
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 7:45 AM
The Glory of Lebanon, Kibbe and Bridal Gowns…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 7:18 AM
Where Stupidity Thrives on the (Persian) Gulf, Falafels and Watermelon Rules…………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 6:57 AM
Red State, White State, a Judicial Lynching…….
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/16/2009 6:33 AM
Ahmadinejad on Psychological Operations, Mubarak a Blank Page…..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/15/2009 8:17 PM
A Funny French Duck Predicts Christmas Middle East War, Salafis and Skirts at War……...
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/15/2009 4:06 PM
Iranian General Challenges All Comers, Of Archers and Persian Cataphracts………
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/15/2009 3:24 PM
In Praise of Cyprus Donkeys, Ubiquitous Middle East Asses, Oligarchs and Plutocrats……..
Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at
10/15/2009 12:58 PM
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