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Middle East Focus: Tag Archive for USA

Oh No, More Iranian Assassination Plots, Nukes and the Rapture………

Ambassador Motormouth: U.S. Plans to Attack Iran and Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh………

America and a Song of Persepolis: A New Tunisian Hypocrisy on Freedom………………..

War on Terrorism and the New Deal: Mother of all Economic Stimuli……………

Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia: Backwoods Southern Law vs. Saudi Law……

Battle for Florida: the Cold War Continues in the Americas………

An Iranian Nuclear Message to the Wrong Ears……………..

Istanbul Nuclear Talks will Fail: Real Stick but no Carrots…………..

Erzats Intelligence and Real Wars: a Stupid (or Smart) Essay about Nuclear Iran............

On the Gulf: Friends of America, Friends of Syria, Friends of Mercenaries, Friends of Child Torture and Sex Abuse………

Dual Obsessions: Americans and Gas Prices, Saudis and Foreign Housemaid Prices………

American-Iranian Tug of War over Iraqi Skies and Syria………

The West’s New Old Dilemma: Immigrants of War…….

Who Would Have Thunk it! Iranian Mullahs Quoting Little Satan and Big Satan for Alibi......

Iranian Nuclear issue, American Nuclear Issue, Conventional Strategic Issue…..

Iran and Pakistan and the Vanished Arabists of America………..

Revive Nixon, Dump Romney, Satan and the Pearly Gates……..

America’s Sectarian Elections, Arab Sectarian Elections………

Of Iranian Mullahs, Saudi Princes, the Old Ikhwan, and Walled Cities on the Gulf.....

Arab Voters vs. the American Political Class: Deep Mutual Contempt…….

On Foreign Aid to Egypt and Cuba and Iran and Pakistan (and China)………

Kipling on My Gulf: Native Rights, White Man Rights, Muslim Rights, NATO Rights…………

A Summit Meeting in Islamabad, about that Natural Gas Pipeline………..

Nuclear Fog over the Gulf: a War of Three Hegemonies……..

Iran’s Real Nuclear Worries……………

Will Iranians Beat Newt and Callista Gingrich to the Moon?…………..

Travel: from the Soviet Union to Cuba, from Communist Albania to Cuba, from USA to Cuba………..

Slow Diplomatic Genocide: American Election Choreography and Iranian Agonies ……….

Cacophony of War: Iranian Generals, Israeli Generals, American Generals, and Alfred E. Neuman……..

Doha or Riyadh: Whose Taliban is it Anyway? about Lido de Paris?............

Short Western Memories: Khomeini, the Chemical West, and the Bomb………………

Iranian Illusions: Living on a Different Official Planet………

Hormuz and Oahu: Dreaming of a Persian Gulf Pearl Harbor…….

The Next War: Saudis Succeed in Aligning Gulf States with the American-Israeli Position……..

Iranian Paranoia, American Paranoia, a World to Conquer…………

Dodge City on my Gulf: a Phony War that Could become a "Dumber" War……..

Arms Deals: New Saudi Defense Minister Starts his Piggy Bank.........

Islamic Jihadists Conquering America, the Princes and Apple Pie and Motherhood.........

UAE Gets THAAD for Petro-Money, Shaikhs Get Commissions, about Those Mercenaries……..

Khamenei Aide to Iranians: Forget about Open and Fair Elections………..

What Terrorism: Waffen-SS, USA?...........

Iranian American Tit for Tat Continues………….

An Epidemic of Rape: American Women, Congolese Women, Afpak Women………….

A Friedman-esque View of America Groveling under the Likud……………….

American Dream to Nightmare? A New Republican Tea Party Blue Dog Corporatist Reality …………

The Gulf: Drone Wars, Jaw Wars, Psych War...........

United States and Israel: Funny Legal Ties that Bind………

New Finicky al-Qaeda Unhappy with U.S. Infrastructure………

New in America: Third World Paranoia and Kangaroo Courts, from Tanzania to Mexico……..

Virtual American Embassy: Iranian Mullahs Should Relax and Try to Enjoy it………….

Conflicting Gulf Signals: Whom to Believe, the al-Nahayan Brothers or the Shaikh of Dubai………

The Iran Bomb: Comparing a North Korean Voter to an American Voter………

Lebanon: Hezbollah Accuses the CIA of Doing its Job………..

Hezbollah Deputy Leader Opines on “Molesting” Lebanon, about Cain and Gingrich and Paul………….

Why the US will Sell Weapons of Repression to Bahrain, Bon Bon Vivant………..

Deutschland, Deutschland, Über Alles: European Economy, American Economy…………

Innovative Drug Dealers of Riyadh, American Bankers………

Gulf Arms Race: UAE JDAMS Bunker Busters, Bunkers of Sharjah and Fujairah……

Indications: Obama Administration to Cancel All Military Sales to Saudi Arabia?………..

A Strange Iranian General to Match any Likudnik.............

The United States vs. the UN, and UNESCO, et al: My Way or the Highway Jingoism……….

Libyan Jamahiriya and the West: Democracy, WMD, and Virginity………

The New American Exceptionalism: Butter for Guns………..

Ahmadinejad Evading Hillary Clinton: it is the Handbag, Stupid.………..

Uprising and Repression on the Gulf: Bridging a Divide with Weapons............

Iranians to Help the United States Investigate the al-Jubair Plot, asking Ignatius………

Cole on the Wackiest Master Terrorist, about that Money Transfer……………

The Iranian DC Bombing Plot: was it Too Fast and Furious? WTF Analysis...........

Cause or Effect? Bombing an Ambassador, Bombing Nuclear Talks, Remembering Havana Harbor…………

Casus Belli or “The Plot Thickens”: Slim Pickens Riding the Bomb over Iran………

Occupation of Iraq, Occupation of China, Occupation of the Vatican.....

America, Hezbollah, China, Russia, Iran, Israel, and Shari'a Colleges: my Drone is Holier than Yours …………..

Republicans in U.S. Congress Plagiarizing Salafi and UAE Laws? Amsterdam.............

Republicans in U.S. Congress Plagiarizing Salafi and UAE Laws? Amsterdam.............

Expanding the Oxymoronic Base: the Republican Drive to Dumb Down the Rest of America………….

America in the Middle East: Public Wars, Private Profits, When in Rome……….

Privately Run Public Gulags: Immigrant Detention Camps of America, Britain, and Australia…………..

Iranian Navy to Patrol the Gulf (of Mexico)…………..

Bahrain Trifecta: American Weapons, Saudi Money, Pakistani Mercenaries………

Red Sea as Mare Nostrum of al-Qaeda? Saudis and Yemen...................

Corruption in the French Political Class, or ‘what bears do in the forest’……

Ahmadinejad on the U.S. Economy, his American Well-Wishers…….

Getting Ready for a Tea Party? Iranians Claim anti-Cruise Radar……..

An Entebbe Complex? Gates on Netanyahu the Ungrateful, Tzipi Livni and Sarah Palin……….

Ayad Allawi: How the U.S. Can Help me Again? Harold Stassen of Iraq...........

Africa, the Arab World, the (New) New Colonialism………….

S & P Gets Downgraded: Better Late than Never, Yugoslavia and Somalia…….

The West’s Very Own Oil Wars on the Middle East………….

An Iranian Advice for American Republicans and Democrats: It is the Economy, Ya Ghabi……..

The London Uprising, French Fascism: the Fire this Time, the Fire Next Time……….

Re-Arming Iraq and SOFA: What the Gulf Neighbors Think……….

American Weimar? a Season of Right Wing Political Zombies………

America’s New Gold Rush: from Iraq to Afghanistan to the Gulf and Beyond……..

On Iraqi SOFA, the Sadrists, Republican Hawks (& Hillary Clinton), and Fiscal Policy………

The Most Powerful Banana Republic in the World?…….

American Neofeudalism? Very Hard Right and Squishy Soft Center.........

The Saudi-Iranian Battle over Women (and Arms)……

How EU Policies on Iranian Oil Diverge from US-Israeli Policies…….

On Iran's De Facto Allies, Afghanistan, Cash for Karzai…….

Iran Hangs one of Satan’s Disciples, or Maybe just a Groupie………

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