Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be […]
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Poisoning the Seas to get out Oil that Poisons the Atmosphere (Banerjee)
Subhankar Banerjee writes at Tomdispatch.com: Walking the Waters: How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans When you […]
Obama signed finding to help Syria Uprising
The Syrian opposition continued to hang on in the northern commercial center of Aleppo on Thursday, and even launched a daring new raid. Rebels used […]
Sanity and Insanity in American Politics (Bachmann, Sessions, Romney, and Chicken)
Sanity: Former US officials and academics (including me) call on the Congressional leadership to remove dangerous conspiracy theorist Michele Bachmann from the House Intelligence Committee. […]
“Algerian Tuareg” (Painting by Youcef Ben Mahammed)
Youcef Ben Mahammed. “Algerian Tuareg.” Youcef Ben Mahammed (b. Oran, 1973) is a Tunisian-Algerian artist based in Montreal.
The Collapse of the Climate Change Contrarians and the End of Coal
It is not proper to speak of “climate skeptics,” since all scientists (including we social scientists) are skeptical of all data and theories every day, […]
Mission Failure: Afghanistan (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com Mission Failure: Afghanistan:A Message Written in Blood That No One Wants to Hear By Tom Engelhardt Imagine for a moment […]
Dear Mr. Romney: Palestinians are Poor Because You Stole from them and Kept them Stateless
Mitt Romney, a privileged white man worth a quarter of a billion dollars who has sheltered his money from taxes in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands […]
Can You Pass the Hezbollah Quiz? (Rudolph)
CAN YOU PASS THE HEZBOLLAH QUIZ? By Jeffrey Rudolph Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamic organization, has evolved over the last three decades from a guerilla […]
Looking out from the Misrata War Memorial Museum, Libya (Photo)
Photograph by Juan Cole, late May 2012. View from the Misrata War Memorial Museum, looking across the street. The Misrata revolutionaries raided Qaddafi’s compound in […]
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