Posts Tagged ‘Turkey’

Iran, Russia and Hezbollah: Strange bedfellows in Syria

Huffington Post Op Ed 06/14/11 Why is the UN Security Council unwilling to condemn Syria? President Bashar al-Assad is butchering his own rebellious citizens and other than public expressions reproaching the massacre in Syria, the world does nothing. Why? Colonel Gaddafi of Libya was bombed by NATO for similar atrocities, then why the preferential treatment […]

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U.S. v. Iran: Winds of War or Psychological Warfare? — Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post Op Ed 7 12 10 Did Brigadier-General Mehdi Moini, who commands Iran’s Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Iranian West Azerbaijan province, fail to read events through, or was he conducting psychological counter-warfare? Moini was interviewed by the Iranian television channel Press TV, following media reports on the presence of American […]

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The Sick Man Upon the Bosphorus: Déjà Vu? — Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post Op Ed 6 16 10 On May 14, 1876, the New York Times ridiculed the Ottoman Empire, reminding its readers that “It is now some twenty years since we began to hear about the ‘sick man upon the Bosphorus,’ yet the same sort of talk, under somewhat different conditions, is current today. […]

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