Bombard Iran … with broadband
If the west really wants to support the green movement it should shower the country in free satellite internet access
Comment la Suisse s’est fait berner par la chimere de l’islamisation
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, doctorant et enseignant à l’Université d’Oxford, passe en revue et réfute les arguments contre les minarets qui ont déferlé sur Internet après le vote de dimanche passé.
Democrats are from Earth, Republicans from Mars
A non-American view on US partisanship
In the current US presidential campaign, we are witnessing unprecedented coverage of non-Americans´ views of the two candidates. This´global polling´ frenzy can be explained by two fairly recent phenomena. First, the end of the Cold War. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, America´s friends had a clearer idea of [...]
Mending a Muslim divide
The “Shiite crescent” – an alliance of Shiite Iran with Arab Shiite movements in Iraq and Lebanon allegedly committed to dominating the Middle East – has become a popular intellectual shortcut to explaining Muslim affairs in the West.
Yet the theory is a flawed one. It ignores the complexity of religious, national, local and tribal allegiances [...]
Empire, nationalities, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Michael Doyle defines empires as follows: “Empires are relationships of political control imposed by some political societies over the effective sovereignty of other political societies.”[1] In both Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union there existed a “metropole” or a core of Russian population and institutions molded in Russian culture and language with some participation of [...]
