Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]
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Top Ten Ways US TV News are Screwing us Again on NSA Surveillance Story (Iraq Redux)
US television news is a danger to the security of the United States. First, it is so oriented to ratings that it cannot afford to […]
Why Correa might give Snowden Asylum: All the Horrible things the US has done to Ecuador
Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who won a third term this year, has significantly improved the lives of his people, reducing poverty rates and building out […]
Top Ten American Steps toward a Police State
The police state, a term first coined in the mid-19th century in German (Polizeistaat), is characterized by a standing political police, by intense domestic surveillance […]
Arab Idol Winner performs “I want it that Way”
The just-announced winner of Arab Idol 2013, Muhammad Assaf of Gaza, performs a cover of the Back Street Boys’ 1999 “I want it that Way.” […]
Obama’s New Syria Strategy is Nixon’s Vietnam Negotiation Tactics Redux (Meyer)
Carlyn Meyer writes in a guest column for Informed Comment For better or worse, Obama came of age well after the Vietnam war. Had he […]
So When will Dick Cheney be charged with Espionage? His Crime was the Same as Snowden’s
The US government charged Edward Snowden with theft of government property and espionage on Friday. Snowden hasn’t to our knowledge committed treason in any ordinary […]
Snowden was Right, they’re Reading your Mail: How British Intelligence and the NSA are Tag-Teaming US
When President Barack Obama said ‘no one is listening to your phone calls,’ he was either misinformed or was being disingenuous. The British are at […]
Jon Stewart with Bassem Youssef in Cairo: “If your regime can’t handle a joke, you don’t have a regime.”
Almost all of the segment is in English except the first half-minute. Jon Stewart makes an appearance in Cairo on Bassem Youssef’s comedy show. He […]
Climbing the Burj Khalifa in Dubai – World’s Tallest Building (Video)
Joe McNally videos the climbers climbing the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building:
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