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Archives for January 2013

Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”

Juan Cole

Be happy, since once you’re upset  it goes on forever– as stars move into conjunction  in the sky, it will go on. The brick they will one day  mold from your clay will be lodged in the portico of someone else’s palace. Translated by Juan Cole from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 162

Energy
How Lance Armstrong’s Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

How Lance Armstrong’s Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2

Juan Cole

Understanding how performance-enhancing drugs raise the odds of success in sports helps us understand how dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere raises the chances of heat waves: It is the same form of reasoning in both cases. This analogy also helps us understand how the lies of Big Oil-backed outfits like the Heartland Institute about […]

Africa
Algeria’s Botched Rescue Leaves Dozens of Hostages Dead, Angers West

Algeria’s Botched Rescue Leaves Dozens of Hostages Dead, Angers West

Juan Cole

Reuters reports that the Algerian government’s intervention against the hostage crisis at a BP natural gas plant in southern Algeria has left 30 of the hostages dead. British Prime Minister David Cameron seemed visibly upset with the hamfisted Algerian operation, and British foreign ministry officials complained about not having been warned the operation was coming. […]

Africa
Ansar Dine and How Climate Change Contributed to the Algeria-Mali Crisis

Ansar Dine and How Climate Change Contributed to the Algeria-Mali Crisis

Juan Cole

The destabilization of Mali and southern Algeria is a complex political and social process that does not have only one cause. But a changing ecology forced by climate change is a major contributor to the region’s problems. This region is part of a Saharan and sub-Saharan band across Africa called the Sahel. I have traveled […]

Uncategorized
Congress:  The Broken Engine of our Stalled Economy (Jamiol cartoon)

Congress: The Broken Engine of our Stalled Economy (Jamiol cartoon)

Juan Cole

By Paul Jamiol, courtesy Jamiol’s World.

US politics
Gun Murders vs. Terrorism by the Numbers

Gun Murders vs. Terrorism by the Numbers

Juan Cole

Number of Americans killed in domestic terrorist attacks, 2002-2011: 30 Number of Americans murdered by firearms, 2000-2011: 115,997 Cost of the War on Terror since 9/11: $5 trillion Cost of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms since 9/11: $12.32 billion In the combined [pdf] US and European Union statistics for 2010, percentage of terrorist […]

Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (259) “Have some wine, since no one is given a long life”

Juan Cole

The revolving sky, which has never revealed any mysteries, has brutally crushed a thousand innocents. Have some wine, since no one is given a long life and once people have left this world they aren’t coming back. Translated by Juan Cole from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 259 

Syria
237 Dead in Syria day of Horrors, 87 killed at Aleppo U

237 Dead in Syria day of Horrors, 87 killed at Aleppo U

Juan Cole

An enormous explosion hit Aleppo University on Tuesday, killing some 87 students and wounding over 150. The motive for the bombing is obscure. The regime holds the university and the area around it, so there is no reason for it to bomb the campus (though government bombing can go astray). But there is also nothing […]

Afghanistan
Administration Seems Confused On Afghan ‘End Game’ – AP  (…. in 1988! – Screenshot)

Administration Seems Confused On Afghan ‘End Game’ – AP (…. in 1988! – Screenshot)

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