The Contrarian Progressive

I know what I know. Somehow, what I see is different from what other people see.

23 March 2013

On the Israeli Mavi Marmara Apology

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I have read many reports regarding Netanyahu's call to Erdogan to apologize about the Mavi Marmara incident. Most of them were convinced...
22 March 2013

Ocalan's Truce Declaration and Parallel Developments

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Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK had announced at the beginning of the week that he was going to have a historic declaratio...
20 March 2013

Obama in Israel

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As you probably know, President Obama is on his first state visit to Israel. From what I can see, the consensus in the corporate media seems...
19 March 2013

Notes About Post-Assad Syria

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We are about to enter a new and probably final phase in the simmering Syrian civil war. Until recently, the Free Syrian Army was a poorly tr...

We Resume Our Regular Programming

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It has been a while since I was able to post something new. The main reason was the fact that my desktop computer died rather unexpectedly...
10 February 2013

Is Afghanistan A Country Stuck in the 13th Century?

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Mohammad Qayoumi, an Afghan-American Professor who is the President of San Jose State University, recently wrote about the common perception...
08 February 2013

Hamas Fatah Unity Talks

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My tiny but well-informed readership is quite aware of my healthy obsession with Khaled Meshal , the leader of Hamas. For almost a year now...
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