The red increase in job loss is the climax of Republican White House control. The blue decrease in job loss is Obama and the Democrats. Sort of like when Superman flies around the world counter-clockwise to undo Lex Luthor’s fiendish destruction. h/t TPM docs. End/ (Not Continued)
Reading cuts stress levels by 68%
Reading cuts stress levels by 68% | Health news | Marie Claire Well now we’ve solved the difference in approach to the world of Barack Obama and George W. Bush. End/ (Not Continued)
40-Day Mourning Sessions targeted by Sunni Radicals in Karbala, Karachi
The 40th day mourning ceremonies after the commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad) in 680 CE was marred by bombings in both Iraq and Pakistan. This violence on the terrain of sacred space and sacred time marked a regional low-intensity war between Shiite revivalists and Sunni vigilante extremists. […]
Informed Comment Poll: Should US Troops be in Pakistan?
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Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq’s Oil Ever Flow? | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Will Iraq's Oil Ever Flow? | TomDispatch Sociologist Michael Schwartz, a sharp Iraq-watcher and author of a provocative book on the Iraq War, surveys the travails of Iraq’s oil industry since the 2003 Bush-Cheney invasion and points to the continued difficulties of the Iraq petroleum industry. My own guess is that eventually […]
Al-Maliki Gov’t Appeals Reinstatement of Candidates, Calls Special Session of Parliament
Iraqi politics and the conduct of the March 7 elections has been thrown into turmoil by the reversal on Wednesday by a judicial appeals panel of the exclusion of over 500 candidates for parliament out of several thousand. The decision of the appeals panel evoked outrage among the Shiite religious parties, including the State of […]
Sophisticated Taliban Bombing, Deaths of 3 US Troops, Embarrasses Zardari Government by Revealing US Troop Presence on Ground in Pakistan
The fragile Pakistani government of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and President Asaf Ali Zardari was deeply embarrassed Wednesday when a massive bombing killed 3 US soldiers on the ground in that country. The Pakistani public has been increasingly upset about US military and para-military (Blackwater/ Xe) actions in their country. On Tuesday, several US […]
Was US-Iran rivalry Driving the Exclusion of Candidates in Iraq? Was Allawi the Target?
I am going to speculate a little today, but I am hoping it is informed speculation. I think an end-game drama is playing out in Iraq between the United States and Iran, and possibly among factions of Americans in Iraq, over the likely leader of the next Iraqi government. I am going to argue that […]
Could Thomas Jefferson’s DNA Trail Reveal Middle-Eastern Origins?
Could Thomas Jefferson's DNA Trail Reveal Middle-Eastern Origins? Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the Jefferson clan in the British Isles may have descended from a Phoenician merchant family that set up a trading post up there. Maybe the Lebanese (many of whom trace their ancestry to the Phoenicians) will get more interested in Jefferson’s […]
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