Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]
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Rockets in Beirut Target Hizbullah as Violence spreads from Syria to Lebanon
Four persons were wounded by GRAD rockets that fell in south-western Beirut, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Sunday. The strikes come a day after the head […]
Turkey: Kissing Protest in Ankara
After a subway official chastised a young couple in Ankara for kissing in public, internet activists organized a small flashmob at the Kurtuluş metro station […]
Media Ignores Climate Change Background of Increased Flooding (Media Matters Short)
As The Scientific American noted a couple of years ago: In a 2011 study published in Nature, “. . . researchers examined daily records of […]
Checkpoint: The Every Day Life of Humiliation for Palestinians (Short Documentary)
Checkpoint – Every Day Life in Palestine Documentary ( Subtitles ) ” Published on Apr 27, 2013 A film showing the day to day reality […]
Taliban Attack UN Agency in Kabul, Wounding 7
The Taliban launched a major attack in the capital of Kabul on Friday, injuring 7 people with a car bomb at the International office of […]
Civil Disobedience and Jail Time for Opposing Big Oil: Tim DeChristopher (Moyers Interview)
Bill Moyers interviews Tim DeChristopher, leader of Peaceful Uprising, who just got out of jail after serving a two-year sentence for peacefully disrupting an oil […]
Nice Speech on Closing Gitmo, Mr. President; but It’s still Open (Schanzer)
David Schanzer writes at Islamicommentary: David Schanzer In his speech at the National Defense University, President Obama made his most impassioned and compelling argument to […]
My Visit to the Iraqi National Museum (Photo Gallery)
Here is a photo gallery from my visit on May 9, 2013, to the Iraqi National Museum, courtesy the Ministry of Culture. Ancient Iraq or […]
“If you Eat a 2000 Hamburgers in the Name of Vegetarianism, You aren’t an Extremist Vegetarian”; Nabil responds to Woolwich Murder
Nabil goes in: A British Muslim responds to the Woolwich murder in which Lee Rigby, 25, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was […]