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McCain: Bomb Syria; But Iraq and Russia oppose Intervention
Senator John McCain called on Monday for US air strikes on Syria, but the Obama administration pushed back. McCain said on the Senate floor, “Foreign […]
Netanyahu 1992: Iran will Have the Bomb by 1997
Scott Peterson at the Christian Science Monitor did a useful timeline for dire Israeli and US predictions of an imminent Iranian nuclear weapon, beginning 20 […]
Omar Khayyam (52)
If the heart knew the secret of life as it really is, it would also know, in death, the divine mysteries. Since you know nothing […]
Libya Seeking Qaddafi Assets Abroad: Mathiason & Serle
Libya acts to seize £10m Gaddafi house in London by Nick Mathiason and Jack Serle of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Gaddafis spent four […]
Top Ten Dangers for Obama of Iran Sanctions on behalf of Israel
President Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on Sunday, warning against loose war talk regarding Iran but also threatening violence against […]
Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Weaponizing the Body Politic
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California…
Omar Khayyam (50)
You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere […]
Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb
Early returns in Iran’s 9th parliamentary election since the 1979 revolution show that Ahmadinejad’s lay populists have taken a drubbing, and that hard line supporters […]
Santorum Can’t Run Away from Limbaugh, who is just taking Santorum’s ideas to their logical conclusion
Rick Santorum is trying to distance himself from Rush Limbaugh’s slander of Sandra Fluke. He maintains that Limbaugh is just an “entertainer” and that he […]
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