The newspapers have been full of the latest "scandal" in Washinton. Perhaps some sort of justice, poetic or otherwise, will be meted out to Bush, Cheney and Co. For those of us who lived through Watergate there is a similar scenario emerging. Bushgate? However this whole thing plays out - or perhaps that should be unravels? - I found Joseph Wilson's [remember! - the husband of Valerie Plane and who triggered the whole thing off] article in the LA Times in response to the charging of Lewis"Scooter" Libby most interesting. As they say, watch this space....
There is no gain-saying that Robert Fisk, fiercely independent and feisty to boot, is the veteran journalist and author covering the Middle East. Who doesn't he know or hasn't he met over the years in reporting from Beirut - where he lives? In his latest op-ed piece for The Independent he lays out his predictions for the Middle East for 2013. Read the piece in full, here - well worthwhile - but an extract... "Never make predictions in the Middle East. My crystal ball broke long ago. But predicting the region has an honourable pedigree. “An Arab movement, newly-risen, is looming in the distance,” a French traveller to the Gulf and Baghdad wrote in 1883, “and a race hitherto downtrodden will presently claim its due place in the destinies of Islam.” A year earlier, a British diplomat in Jeddah confided that “it is within my knowledge... that the idea of freedom does at present agitate some minds even in Mecca...” So let’s say this for 2013: the “Arab Awakening” (the t
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