The ethnic groups of the Middle East
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of religion Tags: Middle-East politics
Friends and enemies in the Middle East flow charted
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: ISIS, Middle-East politics
Friends and enemies in the middle east. Nice visualisation via @infobeautiful theguardian.com/news/datablog/… http://t.co/LHnF2hDoiq—
mark rice-oxley (@markriceoxley69) September 24, 2014
The main rifts in Middle East politics
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Al-Qaeda, Iraq, ISIS, Middle-East politics, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Who now controls what in Yemen
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Middle-East politics, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
How Libya’s 2011 War changed Africa
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Arab Spring, Libya, Middle-East politics, war against terror
What Saudi Arabia and its neighbours looked like 100 years ago
18 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: maps, Middle-East politics, Saudi Arabia
The Sunni-Shia divide
17 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Middle-East politics
Israel’s Arab political parties have united for the first time
12 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, Public Choice Tags: Israel, Knesset, Middle-East politics
the coalition is a result of a move last year to increase the minimum number of votes a party needs to secure a place in the 120-seat Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
Some saw that change as an attempt to oust small Arab parties, but instead it prompted the fragmented and fairly powerless Arab leadership to unite under the banner of the Joint List.
Darwin awards: The Islamic State was backed by 46,000 accounts on Twitter in 2014
06 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Darwin awards, ISIS, Middle-East politics, Twitter, war on terror
Every time they tweet they put a well-deserved target on their back.
via Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter | Brookings Institution.
Terrorism: Ron Paul vs. Giuliani
27 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics, noninterventionist foreign policy, Ron Paul
The Un-discussed Foreign Policy Alternative | Coyote Blog
19 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: ISIS, Middle-East politics, non-interventionist foreign policy
Why is there not a third alternative to be at least considered — that there is something really broken in a lot of Islam as practiced today (just as there was a lot of sh*t broken with Christianity in, say, the 14th-16th centuries) and that Islam as practiced in many Middle Eastern countries is wildly illiberal (way more illiberal than any failings of Israel, though you wouldn’t know that if you were living on a college campus). But, that we don’t need to saddle up the troops and try to change things by force…
Yes, I know the first response to all folks like me who advocate for non-intervention is “Munich” and “Czechoslovakia”. So be it. But if we sent in the military every time someone yelled “appeasement” our aircraft would be worn out from moving troops around. And we seem to be totally able to ignore atrocities and awful rulers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
As a minimum, I would like to see a coalition of Arab states coming to us and publicly asking us for help — not this usual Middle East BS we hear that Saudi Ariabi (or whoever) really in private wants us there but publicly they will still lambaste us. Without this support we can win the war but we have no moral authority (as we did after WWII) in the peace. Which is one reason so many of our interventions in the Middle East and North Africa fail.
via The Un-discussed Foreign Policy Alternative | Coyote Blog.
Widespread concerns about extremism in Muslim nations, and little support for it | Pew Research Center
08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
ISIS sympathizer’s road to jihad — from Canada to Syria to Iraq — tracked one Tweet at a time
31 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: ISIS, Middle-East politics, Twitter, war on terror
You must read the maps showing with his tweets.
This gives you hope when idiots like this can be recruited by the Jihadists. This tosser is not the first moron recruited into their ranks with their locator button on in their twitter account.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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