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Omar Khayyam (2) “Who brought you here?”
Tonight, who brought you, drunk, here to me? From behind the curtain, who brought you here?– to someone who was on fire because of your […]
Big Bird and the Romney Games (Cartoon)
Poll: Obama better Represents America!
We can pronounce the long GOP campaign to frame Barack Obama as somehow ‘foreign’ as complete failure. In a new Reuters/Ipsons Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,600 […]
Top Seven Errors President Obama has made on the Middle East
Yesterday I explored the errors and fantasies in Gov. Mitt Romney’s WSJ op-ed on the Middle East. Here I will briefly go over the mistakes […]
Tom Ricks and The Generals: Why the US succeeded in WWII but not Since
Tom Ricks, award-winning military journalist, gives the Nimitz Lecture on why the US military succeeded in WW II but had so much trouble in the […]
Omar Khayyam (283) “Last night I wandered into a dark pottery workshop”
Last night I wandered into a dark pottery workshop and saw about two thousand pots lined up in silence. But then suddenly a vase cried out, […]
Annals of Settler Colonialism: British Atrocities in Post-War Kenya
The anti-colonial movement in Kenya of the 1950s was mythologized by the British as a shadowy ‘Mau-Mau,’ an irrational outbreak of aimless hatred. In fact, […]
What Juan is Tweeting Today (Readings on Middle East, Environment)
Top Ten Things Mitt Romney Gets Wrong about US Middle East Policy
Gov. Romney published an op-ed on Monday criticizing President Obama’s Middle East policies. Aside from urging ‘strength,’ however, Romney offers no concrete alternative. And, he […]
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