This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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Best of the Web on Widening Wall Street Protests
The Occupy Wall Street protests spread Thursday to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Philadelphia, though these rallies were relatively small compared to the estimated 20,000 […]
Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer
The culture wars kicked off by the 1960s are still with us. Indeed, much of the discourse of contemporary American conservatism can be boiled down […]
China and Iran, Green Together
China says it is planning joint projects with Iran on solar and wind energy. This news is potentially very important. I once took a 24-hour […]
Amanda Knox and Troy Davis
The overturning of the conviction for murder of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito by an Italian court on Monday contrasts with the fate of Troy […]
Iran Business Partners: Cheney & Reagan, not Just the Koch Brothers
Bloomberg’s revelations that a subsidiary company owned by the radical rightwing billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, sold millions of dollars in refinery equipment to […]
Panetta Slams Israeli Isolation; Is Israeli Policy Destabilizing US Allies?
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta , on a visit to Israel and Palestine before heading to Egypt, publicly upbraided the Likud government of Israel for […]
New York and Cairo Protests Show Egyptian 1% more Responsive than the American
In two protests thousands of miles away from one another on Saturday, a similar spirit of demand for government responsiveness to the people was made. […]
Al-`Awlaqi Should have been Tried in Absentia
A CIA drone operator killed the notorious proponent of radical terrorism against the United States, Anwar al-`Awlaqi, on Friday. The killing has provoked some controversy […]
Al-Qaeda Brands Ahmadinejad a Conspiracy Theorist!
The al-Qaeda-linked magazine “Inspire” has reprimanded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for indulging in “stupid” “conspiracy theories” because of his stance, repeated at the recent United […]
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