Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]
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Top Ten Things Mitt Romney’s Insults to Spain tell us About Him
Mitt Romney has caused a tiff with Spain by saying that its economic crisis was caused by government over-spending and saying he doesn’t want the […]
Sunday Afternoon Reading on the Exciting Middle East
California gasoline crisis shows Desirability of Hybrid, Electric Cars
The Big Oil lobby is always talking about how unreliable wind and solar energy are. They say the wind doesn’t blow all the time, and […]
Global Facebook Network Connections on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Image)
At first I thought that this late 2010 map of Facebook network connections left the Arab world blank. But I zeroed in, and Tunis, Alexandria […]
Half of All Solar Panels are in Germany (Video)
Video report on how exactly Germany’s renewable energy revolution has worked. From Renewable Energy Magazine
2012 Rumble/ Debate between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart (Video)
The 2012 Rumble (debate) between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart: Best line: ‘Why should anyone vote for President Obama again?” Jon Stewart: “There are only […]
Omar Khayyam (336)
I know the outside of being and nothingness, and I know the inside of the high and the low. Even so, I should be ashamed […]
Imran Khan Protest Convoy Against US Drones Heads toward Waziristan, Pakistan
Charismatic Pakistani opposition politician, Imran Khan, set out Saturday from Islamabad in a motorized convoy for a mobile protest by his Justice Party against continued […]
Romney and the Gish Gallop or How Fact Checking doesn’t Work (Young Turks)
Cenk Uygur explains Romney’s apparent debate strategy, and explain why the media’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand approach obscures how outrageous the strategy is. Cenk has some fun […]
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