Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]
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General Assembly Condemns Syria as Regime Bombards Homs Again
The world condemned the Syria regime’s brutal crackdown on its own people at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. What would be the response of […]
Tomgram: Ari Berman, The Politics of the Super Rich
At a time when it’s become a cliché to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation — drawing long overdue attention to the struggles of the 99% — electoral politics and the 2012 presidential el…
Omar Khayyam (5)
Get up and come here for the sake of my heart, and lend your beauty to solving my problem. Bring an earthenware cup full of […]
Santorum Hypes Iran ‘Threat’
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned North Dakota on Wednesday that it was in the cross-hairs of an Iranian attack. Among the news about Iran […]
Ahmadinejad Speech on Nuclear Energy Advances (Full Text)
The USG Open Source Center translates the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the inauguration of three civilian nuclear projects Iran: Ahmadinezhad Inaugurates Nuclear […]
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Imperial Hegemony and Its Discontents
In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itself from western dominati…
Active Nuclear Arsenals and Iran’s Absence
These are some of the countries that say they are afraid of Iran. Between them they have thousands of deadly atomic weapons. But note that […]
Omar Khayyam (30)
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t […]
Syrian Assault on Homs Heats up as Obama Scolds Chinese
Syrian forces renewed their heavy bombardment of the Baba Amru district of Homs on Tuesday morning, in the fiercest attack in days. The attack is […]
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