Ferbuary 14, 2012 “The king is dead!,” as the French say, “long live the king!” Will this be the case in Egypt, where one monarch, the ousted Husni Mubarak, will be replaced by another general or military junta led by Field Marshall Mohammed Tantawi? So far, this is what Egyptians […]


February 4, 2011 Total confusion would be a polite way of describing official Washington’s reaction to the revolts and protests now flaring across the Arab world. Neither the US government or the mainstream media knows how to respond. President Barack Obama has just suffered the second humiliation in a row […]


When I wrote my latest book on how America rules its Mideast empire, I chose the title, “American Raj,” because this imperium so closely resembled the way Great Britain ruled India. As I predicted in the book, and in a column here last April, America’s Mideast Raj is now on […]