Added on 25/07/2013
Common Ground News Service
Business/Finance , IMF Stand-By Arrangement , International development , International economics , International Monetary Fund , International relations , Lotfi Nebli , Mohamed Sghaier Jebali , Tunisia , Tunisian government , United Nations
COMMON GROUND NEWS: A young Tunisian set out himself to find out what the future holds for him and his contemporaries following the news of the recent IMF loan to the country
Added on 27/06/2013
Common Ground News Service
Africa , Ansar Al-Sharia , Arab world , Ennahda , Ennahda Movement , Founding Council , Government , International relations , Mohamed Messai , North Africa , Politics , Rashid al-Ghannushi , Religion/Belief , Sharia , Sousse , Tunisia , Tunisian Constituent Assembly election , Violence
MOHAMMED MESSAI, CGNEWS: Rather than being a last resort the lure of the gun is proving irresistible to all across the political spectrum
Added on 05/04/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Ahmet Davutoglu , Benjamin Netanyahu , Gaza flotilla raid , Gaza Strip , Greece–Israel relations , International relations , Israel , Israel–Turkey relations , Istanbul , Libya , Middle East , MV Mavi Marmara , Politics , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Syria , Syria–Turkey relations , Turkey , United States , Washington
'Confused’ may be an appropriate term to describe Turkey’s current foreign policy in the Middle East and Israel in particular. The source of that confusion - aside from the appalling violence in Syria and earlier in Libya – is Turkey’s own mistakes.
RAMZY BAROUD: Turkey’s attempt to re-position itself as a fulcrum between East and West has come unstuck…
Added on 03/04/2013
Juan Cole
American Enterprise Institute , Bush Administration , Cheney , Counter-terrorism , Dick Cheney , Extraordinary rendition , Government , International relations , Jon Stewart , Politics , Politics of the United States , Waterboarding
JUAN COLE: ‘Explain what you meant by this punchline’. Yes, the surreal became real for Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef this week.
Added on 30/03/2013
Mondoweiss
Arab–Israeli conflict , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Government , Human rights in Israel , International relations , Israel , Israel and the apartheid analogy , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jerusalem , Mahmoud Abbas , Obama , PA , Palestinian nationalism , Palestinian Territories , Politics , State of Palestine , United States , West Bank
If you ever had a burning desire to see the American-Israeli alliance shine, there wasn't a better place to be than Jerusalem last week.
MONDOWEISS: If you had a desire to see the U.S.-Israeli alliance shine, there wasn’t a better place than Jerusalem last week.
Added on 13/03/2013
Mondoweiss
Benjamin Netanyahu , International relations , Israel , Israeli government , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Israel–United States relations , Jewish history , Jewish nationalism , Jewish state , Palestine , Politics , Religion/Belief , State of Palestine , Zionism
JEROME SLATER, MONDOWEISS: American Jews concerned about settlement expansion are wasting their breath on Netanyahu.
