Referendum Farce in Pakistan According to Dawn the Pakistani Supreme Court will take up the question of whether the presidential referendum that General Pervez Musharraf has called for April 30, 2002, is constitutional. Whatever the court decides (and its members will be under enormous pressure from the military to back it, as a recent high-level […]
Anti Discrimination Laws Proposed In
Anti-Discrimination Laws Proposed in Morocco Ribat – Al-Sharq al-Awsat, 22 April 2002. This sort of news almost never gets reported in the West. Yesterday a gathering of Moroccan politicians, cultural figures, and journalists called for strong legislation against racial and religious discrimination in Morocco. They specifically mentioned the difficulties some of the country’s 6,000 Jews […]
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:25:25 -0500 (EST) To: gulf2000 list Equal Opportunity Bigotry Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:23:12 -0500 From: Juan Cole Yes, I am outraged by Dr. al-Jalahma’s column, and by similarly outrageous pieces of gross bigotry that appear quite frequently in the Saudi press and the Arabic language press more generally. […]
Re Editor Suggests Nuking Mecca From
Re: Editor Suggests “Nuking Mecca” From: Juan Cole Re: Lowry and Coulter One reason that Lowry’s (and earlier Coulter’s) remarks are alarming is that the political Right in the United States has a track record of actually getting into power and then implementing policies earlier thought bizarre by mainstream American society. Ronald Reagan was widely […]
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:36:20 -0500 (EST) To: gulf2000 list Re: Oil and US politics From: Juan Cole . . . An irony occurs to me. The Saudis and OPEC did the U.S. a substantial favor after September 11 in not making further production cuts to offset the fall in petroleum prices caused by […]
Sunday April 21 2002 Cheney Strikes Out
Sunday, April 21, 2002 Cheney Strikes Out Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:13:27 -0500 (EST) To: gulf2000 list From: Juan Cole While we’ve been talking about press issues . . . the important event in the Gulf has been Dick Cheney’s 11-nation tour, which clearly aimed at drumming up support for a US strike on […]
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