Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]
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Militant Secularism in the Middle East?
The youth organizations that made the 2011 revolutions were predominantly leftist or liberal. They revolted against seedy police states run by family cartels and their […]
Top Ten Things Ted Cruz did to the NSA and other Security Agencies that Edward Snowden Couldn’t
Edward Snowden’s revelations about the excesses of the National Security Agency have so far had no effect whatsoever on actual practices. But Ted Cruz’s conspiracy […]
On how American Jews are Mostly the Opposite of Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu
A huge Pew Charitable Truest telephone poll of American Jews confirms many of the things learned by previous religious polls conducted by Barry Kosmin and […]
Would Israel’s Netanyahu really Drag US into war with Iran?
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged at the United Nations on Tuesday to attack Iran himself if Washington won’t do it, and in order to […]
The Other Lobby: Newspapers of Gulf Oil Monarchies Condemn US-Iran Rapprochement
The USG Open Source Center paraphrases Arabic news items in the newspapers of the Sunni Arab monarchies of the Gulf, many of which express concern […]
Ted Cruz and America’s Super-Rich say “Let them eat Cake”
The anecdote goes that Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, inquired as to why the crowds were in the street demonstrating in 1789. She was […]
Israeli Nuclear & other Arms compared to Iran’s
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the US on Monday to lobby Washington against a diplomatic resolution of the conflict over Iran’s civilian nuclear […]
US all Right with Arming Syrians, Bombing Syrians: But no Syrian Refugees need Apply (Meyer)
Theodoric Meyer writes at ProPublica Authorized by Congress, the CIA has started sending weapons to Syrian rebels. But under a legal definition of terrorism adopted by […]
Ghoul’s Glossary: Shutdown
Shutdown: n. A maneuver whereby persons elected and paid by the public to do little but pass budgets refuse to do so unless they are […]
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