Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Mass Shootings don’t Provoke States to Regulate Semi-Automatic Weapons (Sapien)
Joaquin Sapien writes at ProPublica: Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control […]
What Juan’s Been Tweeting (Saturday Reading)
The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.)
Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K. Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Reported civilian deaths fell sharply in Pakistan in 2012, with […]
Israel’s Turn to the Far Right: The Point of No Return? (Beattie)
Kirk J. Beattie writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Most concerned Americans have, understandably, had their eyes glued on the monumental changes […]
UN: 60,000 have been Killed in Syrian Revolution (Video)
The UN Human Rights Commission under Navi Pillai has had a team of researchers go through five different lists of casualties in Syria, and they […]
The World in 1013 AD: China Rising, Militant Islam in Kabul, & Sunni-Shiite Struggles in Mideast
Just for fun: What was our world like a thousand years ago? Of course, technologically very different, but Song China and Muslim Spain had made […]
Pakistani One Pound Fish Singer takes Charts by Storm
Muhammad Shahid Nazir had a hero’s welcome at Lahore airport last week. The fishmonger had gone to the UK last summer and worked in an […]
Good News for Planet: Wind Power tax Credits Renewed in ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal
While it is important that the Bush tax giveaway to the wealthy begin to be reversed if the US budget is ever to recover its […]
The Rise of the Sunnis and the Decline of Iran, Iraq and Hizbullah: The Middle East in 2013
2013 will see Iranian influence in the Middle East continue a decline that began with the Arab upheavals of 2011. Iran’s two major allies in […]
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