Tehran discusses its nuclear programme with global powers, a day after announcing advance in uranium enrichment.
Western diplomats may or may not always be lying for their own country. But could Western diplomacy, in the case of the Middle East, serve to make non-Western rulers lie to their own countries? The Wikileaks revelatory cables shed some light on this puzzle.
Knowledge is Power!
So did aver the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Indeed, a cliché phrase and the mantra of many in the modern world. The powerless know not what the powerful possess. In the Quran 'Knowledge is king' (sultan), differentiating between human beings not only according to piety – but also knowledge.
Only a dearth of knowledge is today available about what Arabs and Middle Easterners know about the inner ‘thoughts’ of their states. The affairs, sickness, near deaths, feuds, plots, deals, schemes and the personalities surrounding them are the exclusive bastion of the inner circles amongst ruling elites. So then, rumour is rife?
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