Monthly Archives: January 2020

Hisham Melhem on ‘Soleimani The Monster’! Political Dissident comments

This vulgar melodrama from Hisham Melhem, newspaperman and hireling of the The Arab Gulf States Institute, headed by the son of the CIA’s Frank G. Wisner and financed by nearly 4 Million budget. This has CIA Front Group written all … Continue reading

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janan.ganesh@ft.com American Writer comments on Gore Vidal’s ‘distasteful views’.

Mr. Ganesh’s forgettable political chatter is rescued from the territory of the jejune by his attack on his literary/political better Gore Vidal . Not the ‘Sage of Amalfi’ but ‘The Patrician Rebel’ who was almost a big a snob as … Continue reading

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Niall Ferguson’s offers a political analgesic, in the good grey Times. Political Observer comments

After a quick search for the proper historical analogy for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Mr. Ferguson provides the ‘correct analogy’, and dismisses any notion that this will lead to WWIII. But note that Ferguson echos the rhetoric of the … Continue reading

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The Financial Times ‘reports’ on the watershed of the killing of Qassem Soleimani. Political Observer comments

  Headline: Middle East braced for backlash after killing of Qassem Soleimani Sub-headline: Fears grow that death of Iranian general will suck region into broader conflict https://www.ft.com/content/52a2fce4-2e0f-11ea-a126-99756bd8f45e   The Financial Times ‘reports’ on the Soleimani killing with the aid of … Continue reading

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The Financial Times reports on the ‘death’ of Qassem Soleimani. Political Observer comments

Its an American tradition to ‘meddle’ in Iran. Recall Kermit Roosevelt? The particulars here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr. And his book Countercoup, a political self-apologetic. Former senior adviser to the Obama administration and Council on Foreign Relations Iran expert, Ray Takeyh,[16] writing in 2014, states that “Contrary to Roosevelt’s … Continue reading

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