Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the surging violence in Mali and Algeria; how tiny Qatar has become a major power broker in the Middle East; Algeria’s short-lived experiment with democratic government; why the Tuareg’s are the “Kurds of the Sahara;” why the French are warming to their tax-raising, warmaking president; and Israel’s political shift to the extreme right.
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