Epstein Secrets

n the other hand, it has led to a surge of Islamist parties in most of the Middle East, in which the Iranians have taken a more benign view towards Tunisia, Egypt, or what have you. So it's a double-edged sword, but I would say at this particular point that the tone and the posture of the accommodation

helping to open China to the West — goes beyond the question of whether to forgive an individual's irrational behavior. As the scandal surrounding Bo Xilai's dramatic fall from power shows, it applies equally well to explaining the apparently irrational behavior of regimes. Most reasonable people would

w hope, and fears, in ti -e)31(ifiAl Rami G. Khouri October 13, 2012 -- It has been almost 22 months now since the Arab uprisings erupted in rural Tunisia, triggering dramatic events and structural changes across much of the Arab world, though the outcomes of the historic transformations under way rem

t has at times been a painful process. The decennial communist ritual has been marred this year by a series Q embarrassing scandals [6], including Bo Xilai's fall from grace and the dismissal of a corrupt railways chief. While China's current lame-duck cadres do their best to mop things up before the big

arity of the government, much to the benefit of the radicals who hope to replace it. In many other places, from the West Bank and Gaza to Yemen and Tunisia, the protest movements are also more important for what they mean in local politics than about global policy. Radical movements and imams who work

ng the supposed broader confrontational trend in Chinese thinking about the rest of the world. The continuing reverberations within China caused by Bo Xilai's rapid fall from grace earlier this year are a public example of how such differences persist, and are perhaps growing, within the highest levels of