http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/ Dear Friends and Readers, Throughout his year-and-half battle with cancer, Prof. Barry Rubin, founder of Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center—today the Rubin Center —continued to write and analyze events in the region and across the globe. When he could no longer type, he dictated. Even from his hospital bed, while hooked up to an IV dispensing chemo, he struggled to get the words out, publishing his final article just two weeks before his untimely death. In his final days, he was very much occupied with the future of the Rubin (GLORIA) Center . It was his dream that the center would continue on the path he had set. “My approach,” he once remarked, “…is to ignore the Western scholarly literature and to examine the facts on the ground .” He stressed that events “should be approached as objectively as possible with an honest attempt to be accurate, to produce evidence proving one’s assertions, and to follow wher...