Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it an enormous […]
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, Drone Disasters
American fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly…
Obama warns Israel against Iran Strike, Cancels Joint Military Exercises
Here are two signs that the Obama administration is attempting to dial down tensions with Iran, sending powerful symbolic signals that Washington does not want […]
Elbaradei Quits Egyptian Presidential Race
Mohammad Elbaradei has withdrawn from the Egyptian presidential election. He is the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and was a thorn in […]
Omar Khayyam (6)
When I die, prepare my body in wine, and in place of a eulogy lift a glass! On Resurrection Day you’ll find my dust stirring […]
Israeli Mossad Agents allegedly Impersonated CIA in fostering Baluch Terrorism against Iran
Mark Perry reveals that Israeli Mossad intelligence operatives pretended to be American field officers when contacting members of the Baluch Jundullah terrorist group, presumably in […]
Will Pakistan’s Crisis affect US in Afghanistan
Pakistan is an important country and a key US partner, and so it is bad news that it is lurching from political crisis to political […]
Cole Interview on the Iran and Iraq Crises
Interview of Juan Cole by Rick Schenkman of the History News Network at the American Historical Association meeting on the Iran and Iraq crisis.
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Superpower Adrift in an Alien World
Here’s the ad for this moment in Washington (as I imagine it): Militarized superpower adrift and anxious in alien world. Needs advice. Will pay. Pls respond qkly. PO Box 1776-2012, Washington, DC…
Good Nuclear Iran, Bad Nuclear Iran
An ad for the nuclear industry from the 1970s, depicting pro-Western Iranian dictator Mohammadd Reza Pahlavi:
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