Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Harald Ringbauer et al. writing in Nature report on a genetic study of the ancient Phoenicians that is really going […]
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Who’s most innovative of all? Not Israel, says Bloomberg
This year’s Global Innovation Quotient furnishes a reality check for the Start-Up Nation
AKP winning perception war
Erdogan has been surprisingly successful in framing the graft probe in his favor, while purging the bureaucracy on an unprecedented scale.
3 Years Later, Young Bloggers who made the Tahrir Revolution are in Jail
The military “interim government” in Egypt is cracking down on virtually all meaningful form of assembly, association, or opposition. Following the passage of a November 2013 law banning peaceful protest, dozens of activists and organizers have…
CSI Baghdad: Why don’t Crime Units in the Carbomb Capital of the World do their Job?
(By Mustafa Habib, Baghdad) It is estimated that around 250 car bombs exploded in Baghdad last year. This year the numbers are climbing and bombers’ […]
Death toll of Obama’s Drone Campaign 5 Years Later: 2,400
(By Jack Serle) Obama has launched over 390 covert drone strikes in his first five years in office Five years ago, on January 23 2009, […]
On eve of Revolution Anniversary, Cairo Shaken by deadly Bombings
(By Juan Cole) Two bombings shook the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Friday morning. The first was apparently a car bomb detonated at 5:30 am that […]
Top Ten Ways GOP could avoid “War on Women” Label
(By Juan Cole) Mike Huckabee objects to the charge that the Republican Party is waging a war on women. The GOP obviously is increasingly a […]
Israel and Saudi Arabia on Same page re: Keeping Iran a Pariah
(Via Globalpost) Iran: The one issue Israel and Saudi Arabia can openly agree on (via GlobalPost) Enlarge An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector […]
World was Hot Again in 2013; Australia, others, Hottest on Record
NEW YORK, New York, January 21, 2014 (ENS) – The year 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since recordkeeping began in 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures, NASA scientists said today. NASA’s Goddard…
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