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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Advancing is Perfection (Gibran)
From Kahlil Gibran, “The Vision,” available at Amazon.com.
US Pentagon Trained Iranian terrorists in Nevada: Hersh
For those who missed this this weekend. The intrepid Seymour Hersh reports at the New Yorker that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) of the […]
What We Lost in Iraq and Washington (Van Buren)
Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com: Left Behind What We Lost in Iraq and Washington, 2009-2012 By Peter Van Buren People ask the question in […]
All Hell is still Breaking Loose in the Arab World, Television is just not Reporting it
5. Several center-left parties in Tunisia have formed a centrist party for the next election. The Progressive Democratic Party only got 16 seats in parliament, […]
Liberty without Thought: Kahlil Gibran
From Kahlil Gibran, “The Vision,” available at Amazon.com.
British PM Anthony Eden and the Persian Poet Hafiz
“I suppose that anyone with sort of broad European culture has a fairly good idea of Persian history– he must have– it’s part of our […]
America’s new data center: The Biggest Big Brother of All (TBIJ)
From the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: In the small town of Bluffdale in the Utah desert, the US government is halfway to completing a gargantuan […]
Contemporary Coptic Icon of the Resurrection from Egypt (Wall Painting)
A contemporary Egyptian, Coptic Christian icon of the Resurrection by Adel Nassief: “1994 – The Resurrection – Holy Family Church – Bahir, Egypt” courtesy Adelnassief.net, […]
Omar Khayyam (89)
For a whole lifetime, I’ve made praising wine a constant exercise. I always have its instruments around me. Prude, if reason is your teacher here, […]
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