Princess Reem Al Faisal, granddaughter of the legendary Saudi King Faisal bin Abdulaziz, may be an unknown commodity for the world beyond the Middle East. by Aijaz Zaka Syed / Arab News But her fame as an artist and photographer par excellence has traveled far beyond the borders of the Saudi kingdom.  The magic of [...]

I thought Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent, was spot on with his first comments after Saudi Arabia’s reinforcement of Bahrain’s military. Drawing off four years experience of living in Bahrain, he said: “The Bahraini royal family has squandered chances for dialogue over many years. Now it’s too late.” Alan Hart / My Catbird Seat [...]

Let us fervently hope that this Sendai disaster will not take further turns for the worse, but that the warnings already embedded in such happenings, will awaken enough people to the dangers on this path of hyper-modernity so that a politics of limits can arise to challenge the prevailing politics of limitless growth. By Richard [...]

The two sides can carry on swapping narratives until the cows come home… theological chit-chat hasn’t brought a solution nearer. Calling for more sounds like another ploy to buy time for the Zionists to establish more irreversible ‘facts on the ground’ and advance their borders still further. by Stuart Littlewood / My Catbird Seat The [...]

Both the Libyan people and the entire Arab League have asked the U.N.S.C. to establish the no fly zone over Libya. Yet Europe, the U.S. and Russia are playing the spin game blaming each other on the feasibility and potential outcome (s) of such a decision. Without strong U.S. leadership it’s difficult to ascertain the [...]

The ability to contact millions through films, TV, newspapers, magazines and the internet is reason to pause to examine the dangers of a growing psyops culture. by Paul  J Balles /My Catbird Seat One big story of the last few weeks has the US military playing “mind games” with civilian leaders in order to get [...]

That neocons would exploit any U.S. intervention in Libya to justify intervention in Iran is underscored by  continued propagandizing about the alleged Iranian nuclear threat. By Stephen Sniegoski / My Catbird Seat Although the neocons had initially been rather cool toward the popular uprisings in the Middle East which threatened  regimes friendly to the U.S. [...]

ED NOTE : An interesting Shamir dialog. He thinks quite intricately, and uses language with precision which many people do not recognize or understand. He is right, “Jew” is a difficult term to describe, and it varies depending on whether one perceives one to be one or not…He is correct when he says perception is [...]