TUNISIA'S NEW FALTERING POLITICAL ORDER AFTER THE ARAB SPRING

U.S. INSTITUTE PEACE

Tunisians vote to expand president’s powers

AL MONITOR COVERS TUNISIA'S NEW CONSTITUTION

​Most Tunisians sit out referendum

​Here's how the latest US rate hike will impact Egypt's economy

​Fourth Turkish drilling ship begins energy exploration in Mediterranean

HOOVER DIGEST 2022

​Russia offers Erdogan economic lifeline

Muqtada al-Sadr uses street pressure to set political conditions for his rivals
 Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed that new elections would be held as his followers flocked to a mass prayer in the occupied parts of Baghdad’s Green Zone after 10 months of political deadlock.

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities recently announced the discovery of the sarcophagus of Wahipra Merinit, who was the “commander of foreign soldiers” during the late 26th dynasty. The discovery is revealing never before known facts about the period when the Egyptian army began to rely on mercenary soldiers from the Greeks and the Mediterranean islands.

Pity that the army chief of nuclear power could get in touch only with a junior US official, not NSA Jake Sullivan or CJCS Mark Milley. This, indirectly, exposes the fake conspiracy theory of Imran Khan. As I have stated repeatedly, Pakistan is not that important globally.

— Yousuf Nazar (@YousufNazar) July 30, 2022

U.S. DEFENSE FORCE NOT BUDGETED SERIOUSLY 

China imports much of its protein from US/allies (150 million metric tonnes/annum of meat, soy, not easily smuggled) It can reduce fuel use + increase fuel imports from Ru/Kazakh .But today's Chinese would starve on a Mao diet & its vast rice stocks will not do. Empty threats https://t.co/oozfxTniQZ

— Edward N Luttwak (@ELuttwak) July 30, 2022

The Fed Needs Fiscal Help

The Ecological Origins of Economic and Political Systems

The Roots of Black Economic Progress

Iran's Satellite Program Is a Growing Threat  by Seth J. Frantzman
The Jerusalem Post
July 25, 2022
https://www.meforum.org/63409/iran-satellite-program-is-a-growing-threat

Getting Ready for a Long War with China
July 30, 2022In his latest report, Hal Brands envisions the dynamics of a potential conflict with Communist China. Not only will that confrontation pose greater risks of conventional and nuclear escalation, he finds, but it is also unlikely to be short or geographically limited to flash points like the Taiwan Strait. With these challenges in mind, he proposes that American strategists must consider six crucial priorities: "endurance, resilience, coercion, termination, exploitation, and continuation."

Is China Shrinking?

The Pentagon Gets the Better Part of a Trillion Dollars a Year. Why Isn't That Enough?

An increasingly brittle force due to scarcity in the defense budget that builds up and calcifies over time b/c of policymakers’ inability to tackle third rails & make truly hard choices (& cutting procurement is the opposite of “painful trade off”) —>https://t.co/rCm0n5WQVE https://t.co/jmycmuHVTs

— Mackenzie Eaglen (@MEaglen) July 26, 2022

Russian company begins construction at Egypt’s first nuclear power plant
Russia's state-owned atomic energy company, Rosatom, and the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy have begun work at the Dabaa nuclear power plant, Egypt’s first.

Fragments of Israeli rightwing parties gamble on merging ahead of elections
 The broken Yamina party and the two-member Derech Eretz party are hoping that their merger will get them into the next Knesset.

Tehran, the Day After
​What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?

The Next Salafi-Jihadi Wave: Capabilities, Resources, and Opportunity 
​| Emily Estelle | May 16, 2022.

Algeria Leads Campaign to Rehabilitate Assad Regime