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Tikrit: Al Qaida’s “great escape”

September 25, 2009

Over one dozen suspected Al Qaida militants have escaped through ventilation ducts in a Tikrit jail, just North of Baghdad. Iraqi authorities have imposed a vehicle ban and curfew on the city as some of the prisoners are carrying the death penaltiy for working woith Al Qaida....

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Gaddafi calls UN “terror council”

Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

September 25, 2009

In his debut appearance at the United Nations, Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi came out swinging as he chastised the UN for failing to prevent the 65 wars that have occured since it was founded in 1945. “It should not be called the Security Council, it should be called the “terror...

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Afghani elecetions

Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

August 24, 2009

Is it any wonder that Karzai is in the lead? As an ex-employee of Unocal, one of the major companies involved in the Trans-Afghan Pipeline, it would seem that his popularity amongst Western backers comes with a price. Karzai gives the US a safe route for their oil/natural gas pipeline – the US give...

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“Gaza Reflections”

Blog, Middle East

August 20, 2009

Good friend and colleague, Antony Loewenstein, who recently spent the last few weeks reporting from inside Gaza has put together the following mini-documentary:...

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“Reuben Brand a rare Truthful Journalist…”

Australia, Blog, Middle East

August 13, 2009

Dr Gideon Polya, a Melbourne based scientist and writer, has recently written a very interesting article regarding one of my previous pieces “The Truth must not be sanitised.” In his article Dr Polya makes a strong point about the lack of truthful reportage by Western journalist in relation...

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Like 1974

How to fund a war… Or two

Blog, Middle East, USA

July 26, 2009

Strange that a dramatic increase in opium production has taken place in Afghanistan since the US invaded in 2001. Strange? Maybe convenient is the right word....

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Colonizing Iraq

Blog, Middle East, Politics, USA

July 16, 2009

Michael Swartz’s latest article “Colonizing Iraq – The Obama Doctrine?” is a must read: — “Unfortunately, not just for the Iraqis, but for the American public, it’s what’s happening in “the dark” — beyond the glare of lights and TV cameras...

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The best online pub in town

Australia, Blog

July 11, 2009

My previous article “Pakistan’s dirty laundry” made an appearance at a lovely little place called Window Dresser’s Arms, Pig & Whistle — “All good cyber pubs need a foreign correspondent to keep the patrons well-informed and up to date. Our man in the Middle East is...

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What a nice plug…

Blog, Politics

July 4, 2009

In an article about Babak Rahimi, assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at UCSD, journalist Matthew T. Hall from the Union Tribune in San Diego gave me a lovely little plug. Thanks Matthew: Reuben Brand, a freelance journalist based in Pakistan earlier this year, called Rahimi “a very brave...

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Pakistan’s Dirty Laundry

Articles, Blog, Pakistan, Politics

July 4, 2009

My following article, “Pakistan’s dirty laundry” was published in Online Opinion – Australia’s leading journal for social and political debate. It also made an appearance at a lovely little place called Window Dresser’s Arms, Pig & Whistle The ongoing war with the...

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