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La lógica de un complot

January 31st, 2012 · No Comments · Iran, Spanish

ElDiarioExterior Cuando se conoció la noticia del complot iraní para asesinar al embajador saudí en Estados Unidos Adel al-Jubeir, muchos reaccionaron con escepticismo. Para algunos observadores occidentales, el hecho de que un régimen islámico cooperase con traficantes mexicanos de drogas, y la naturaleza aparentemente torpe de la operación entera, arrojan dudas sobre la validez de [...]

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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

January 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Lebanon, Middle East

  by David Hirst (New York: Nation Books, 2010), 489 pages Reviewed by Nir Boms Co-founder, CyberDissidents.org In choosing the title of his book Beware of Small States, David Hirst harks back to the words of Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist who in 1870 wrote to a friend about the European wars. Small states, Bakunin [...]

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