“The security problems of the 21st Century will come from Syria”

SOFIA LORENA IN GAZIANTEP
03/11/2013 – 00:00
Below is a rough English translation made using Google. The Portuguese original can be found here: http://www.publico.pt/j1752077

The world is without a police force at this stage and this is not good, so argues a Syrian dissident who best understands the power structure in Washington. He also says that the U.S. and Europe could have avoided this spiral of madness. Continue reading ““The security problems of the 21st Century will come from Syria”” →

الموت

فيسبوك: 2 تشرين الثاني، 2013

مابوسعنا تصوّر الموت أو إدراك كنهه، لذا ترانا نصرّ على النظر إليه كمجرّد معبر أو نفق يمضي بنا إلى حياة جديدة لا نلبث أن نسقط عليها مخاوفنا وأمانينا، ومن ثم نتشبثّ بها ونحوّلها إلى يقين نمحور حوله حياتنا الحقيقية. لكن، وبعد كل هذه الآلاف من السنين من الخبرات الإنسانية المتراكمة، ربّما أصبح لزاماً علينا تقبّل فكرة كون الموت مجرّد تجربة علينا أن نمرّ بها فرادى، وأنها، لمن لم يخضها بعد، لا تشكّل أكثر من حدث عابر يستوجب القبول وربما بعض الخشوع، لا أكثر: فلان من الناس مات، فلنتذكّر حسناته، ولندارِ سيئاته، ولنتعلّم كل ما بوسعنا تعلّمه من تجربته في العيش، ولنمضِ نحسّن هذه الحياة ونعتني بها، فهي الحقيقة الوحيدة الموجودة بين أيدينا لا شكّ فيها، وكل ما سواها لا يزيد عن كونه افتراضات وأوهام.

Twerking it

The repeated collective twerking of the American public, first by a genocidal maniac and now by a genocidal nun speaks volume of their “audacity for hope,” and of the American people’s worsening taste in twerking partners. Was Miley really that bad? Meanwhile, a genocide is being ignored as US and Western politicians cower in their respective ideological corners, and public relation firms all over the world get busy sexing up and rehabilitating the image of its perpetrators. And a leaderless world rushes unquestioningly towards the abyss.

Zakaria: The Saudis Are Mad? Tough!

Zakaria: The Saudis Are Mad? Tough! – TIME.

Every criticism of Saudi foreign policy that Zakaria makes in this piece is correct, but there are few convenient lies of omission all of which pertain to America being a main partner, enabler and a beneficiary of Saudi Wahhabi adventurism. So, basically Zakaria is simply airing some dirty laundry in what promises to be a messy divorce. But to say that there will no strategic implications to this divorce is to ignore the very facts Zakaria marshaled in order to justify it, namely that Saudi, like Iran, America’s new paramour, sponsors global terror networks, and history tells us that she tends to be quite vindictive. Now, and as it courts another Middle Eastern vixen, the US may only see the negative side of Saudi terror, as it hopes to benefit from the Iranian one. Some would say this is good for the US, and is indeed the stuff of real-politick. But the times, they are a-changing, and when this thing backfires, as it always does, I doubt the aftermath will be as containable as the Brat Pack of America’s New Isolationism seem to think.