While 2011 draws to a close, New Year’s pledges are hard to formulate. Generally, predictions are unreliable, and what has happened this year hardly anybody had envisaged one year ago. So, there might be some hope for 2012. The year started promising, millions of North Africans eventually lost patience after realizing that nothing had to [...]
Archive for December 31st, 2011
Happy New Year!
Posted in Music, Oman, tagged Mariinsky Ballet, Muscat, Pjotr Tchaikovsky, Royal Opera House Muscat, Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said, Swan Lake, year-end retrospective on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Dangerous War Games
Posted in Iran, USA, tagged Barack Obama, NPT, Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Velayat 90, war games on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Update below. Update II (Sunday). Both fascinating and alarming is the map of U.S. military bases in the Middle East, which had been posted a couple of days ago by Juan Cole. Essentially unsuccessful in designing several serious allegations, even casus belli, towards America’s arch enemy, Iran (does anyone remember the assassination plot against the [...]
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