Links 25 February 2011
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Neocons split over Arab revolts.
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Walt does a mea culpa on his prediction that Tunisia's uprising would not spread.
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Oh boy: "The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators."
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John Bradley being rather alarmist about prospects for "Islamist tyranny".
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On Morocco's protests.
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Very interesting essay on UK change of approach to Palestine under Straw and Blair, now revealed to be basically criminal by the Palestine Papers.
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Very moving video
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A good question that's badly answered in this piece: there are different versions of the name because it sounds different when you say it in Modern Standard Arabic and when you say it in Libyan Bedouin dialect, where the "q" becomes "g" and the "dh" becomes "d".
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Appears pretty likely according to UN.
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Tom Friedman thinks addiction to oil is the problem for the US in the Middle East. Sure, it's part of the problem, but he ignores the other half: addiction to defending the indefensible policies of Israel.
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In the bunker.
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Libya repression and protest: Long repressed, Libyans take a brave step toward freedom - latimes.comHRW's Sarah Leah Whitson.