Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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Top Five Reasons to Celebrate World Press Day (Rice)
Alice Rice writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism; alas, the breaking news is that she could have added Tunisia to the list: Today the […]
Deaths of Protesters Lead Egyptian Politicians to Suspend Presidential Campaign
Thugs, very possibly backed by the continued military dictatorship in Egypt, attacked protesters at dawn on Wednesday in front of the Ministry of Defense in […]
Almohad Tower of Gold, Seville (Photo)
Photograph by Juan Cole, July 27, 2010 The Torre del Oro in Seville, Spain, was built in the 1200s by the Almohad (Berber Muslim) dynasty […]
It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart … (D. H. Lawrence Poster)
Collapsing Afghanistan & Pakistan Refuse to Cooperate with Obama Photo Op
President Barack Obama sneaked in and out of Afghanistan by the cover of night, his advance security team clearly too worried about the situation in […]
“Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful” (George Orwell Poster)
Romney wants to Fight Whole Muslim World, not Concentrate on Bin Laden
Mitt Romney said Monday that of course he would have taken out Bin Laden and that ‘even Jimmy Carter would have made that call.’ Since […]
A man’s duty to understand his world (Hemingway Poster)
Omar Khayyam (125)
That lapis lazuli dome and golden tray have turned time and again, and will revolve yet more. We, too, by the command of fate, arrived […]
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