Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and […]
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At Oscars, Director of “A Separation” Slams War Talk
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film “A Separation,” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year, had this to say in his acceptance speech: […]
Omar Khayyam (45)
Since things are not going to work out the way we want, where will it get us to dwell on our struggles?– Except to sit […]
The Difference between Romney and Obama (Picture)
In the build-up to the Super Tuesday primaries, in 2012 and 2008, candidates Romney and Obama, respectively, addressed crowds in stadiums. Here is the difference. […]
Five Things Rick Santorum Could have Learned in College
Rick Santorum attacked President Obama on Saturday for being “a snob” because, Santorum said, the president wanted all Americans to have a college education (Obama […]
Omar Khayyam (43)
Fear of mortality and notions of nothingness are your own kind of drunkeness. Otherwise you’d see that from the branch of death twigs of immortality grow. […]
Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime
The Muslim Fundamentalist Palestinian party-militia Hamas, based largely in the Gaza Strip has abruptly broken with its long-time patron, Syria. The leadership has scattered from […]
Afro-Asia, Global South Reject Boycott of Iran
Despite American assertions that Iran is “internationally isolated,” it turns out that the boycott of that country is a solidly Northern Hemisphere phenomenon and only […]
Republicans silent as Netanyahu disses Gen. Dempsey
Courtesy Paul Jamiol For background see this posting and Ian Master’s recent interview with me on this issue
Omar Khayyam (19)
19 The day when I down shots one after one and with total delight become falling down drunk, I’ll work a hundred miracles on every […]
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