Anger Builds in Fallujah Over Security Crackdown - by Ali al-Fadhily: "'Americans and their Iraqi collaborators are blaming us for their failure in controlling the city and the whole country,' Ahmed Alwan of the Sunni religious group the Muslim Scholars Association told IPS. 'This kind of collective punishment only means slow death to the people of the city and is adding to their agonies that have continued since April 2003.'"
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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