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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 […]
Scientists: Certain that Human-Caused Climate Change Threatens our Planet (Queally)
Jon Queally writes at Commondreams.org “Unequivocal.” If the public and policymakers want a single adjective to describe the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
Why US Clout in the Middle East is Gone (Hiro)
Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com: What if the sole superpower on the planet makes its will known — repeatedly — and finds that no one […]
Why Israel’s Plan to Bomb Iran is more Dangerous to Israel than Obama-Rouhani Diplomacy
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made no secret of his dismay that the Obama administration is entering into what look like serious negotiations with […]
You Can have Obamacare, or You can have Cruzcare (Jamiol Cartoon)
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