Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia
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Tomgram: Andy Kroll, The Unlikely Oracle of Occupy Wall Street
When Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World, a meditation on the history and power of nonviolent action, was published in 2003, the timing could not have been worse…
Limbaugh and the best argument for Birth Control
Best argument for birth control: If Rush Limbaugh’s mother had used it, imagine how much better the world would be.
Mark Twain on Courage
Dear President Obama: On Iran, Listen to the Israelis, not the Likud
It is often the case in democratic societies that reasonable people get saddled with extremist governments. Israel is in such a situation at the moment. […]
Dear MSM: Andrew Breitbart was not a Blogger
Dear Mainstream Media: Andrew Breitbart was not a blogger. He was a political trickster, a serial frame-up artist, a con man, a fraud, a flimflam […]
Hizbullah: Israeli attack on Iran would “ignite the region”
Sheikh Naim Qassem, the number two man in Lebanon’s Hizbullah, told Reuters on Wednesday that any Israeli strike on Iran would spin out of control […]
Mark Twain on Education
Does this make you think of anyone in the news these days?
A Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East: Fathollah-Nejad
Ali Fathollah-Nejad writes in a guest column for Informed Comment A Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East Why It Would Be in the […]
Omar Khayyam (47)
No one can pierce the veil of mystery. No one’s soul is aware of this arrangement. Only in the heart of the black earth do […]
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