Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]
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Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)
By Juan Cole NBC News’s Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel […]
Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews
A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Click here for the rest […]
Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)
Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’
Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past
Posted on 27 May 2014 by howardlee The link between rapid climate changes and mass extinctions has been strengthened in a recent paper by Jourdan et al in “Geology.” The authors demonstrate that the extraordinarily huge volcanic eruptions of the…
The NSA Effect: China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has urged its banks to stop using servers built by IBM because it believes that they might be used for espionage. According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, the People’s Bank of China and the Chinese Ministry of Finance…
“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.”
“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.” (via The Political Carnival) “Joe the Plumber” (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following […]
Preying on the Weak: Like Big Tobacco, Big Oil Targets Developing Countries
By Michael T. Klare via Tomdispatch.com In the 1980s, encountering regulatory restrictions and public resistance to smoking in the United States, the giant tobacco companies […]
Egypt: Passive Aggression and Counter-revolution: Voters, Youth Stay Home
By Juan Cole Voting was abruptly extended from two days to three in Egypt’s presidential election on Tuesday, apparently because of an unexpectedly low turnout. […]
Turkish Court asks Interpol to arrest 4 Israeli ex-Generals for Gaza Aid Ship Murders
Turkish court orders arrest of Israeli top brass over Gaza ship raid (via AFP) A Turkish court on Monday ordered the arrest of four former […]
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