Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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Obama Jokes with White House Correspondents (Video)
President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
How You became a Guinea Pig for the Chemical Corporations (Rosner and Markowitz)
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz write at Tomdispatch.com A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water […]
Are Chemical Weapons use in Syria really Obama’s Red line? (Feaver)
Julie Poucher Harbin presents an interview with Peter Feaver via Islamicommentary According to an assessment signed by White House director of the office of legislative […]
Six Myths about Bush Torture Punctured by New Report (Thompson)
Christie Thompson writes at ProPublica: Among the news that ended up being buried in the events of [two weeks ago]: A nonpartisan think tank, the […]
The Changing map of Europe and the Middle East, 1000 – 2000 (10-min. Video)
The changing map of Europe and the Middle East for the last thousand years, in 10 minutes.
Steven Spielberg’s “Obama,” with Tracy Morgan as Joe Biden
Satire Spoof shown at this year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner: Steven Spielberg’s “Obama,” starring Daniel Day Lewis, with Tracy Morgan as Joe Biden:
Pot and Partying: Top Ten Signs the Tsarnaev Brothers Weren’t Pious Muslims
Recent press revelations have confirmed my initial suggestion that members of the Tsarnaev family were secular ex-Soviets rather than observant Muslims Only a few years […]
Glenn Greenwald on the Price of Government Secrecy (Moyers interview)
Bill Moyers interviews Glenn Greenwald on the high cost of government secrecy. The blurb for the show: “The violent Boston rampage triggered a local and […]
Serbia and Kosovo: A European Success Story? (Trix)
Frances Trix writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On 19 April 2013 the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica […]
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