Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The traditional left–right political spectrum no longer captures the forces driving division in America today. That model works […]
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Stewart Nails Hannity Lying (Same as ‘Stewart Nails Hannity Breathing’)
Jon Stewart nails Sean Hannity for dishonestly showing only part of an Obama clip and distorting its meaning. (At 5:30 in). Actually, I think the […]
Afghans Demonstrate Against US Quran-Burning That Never Happened
Saturday witnessed a second wave of demonstrations against the threats by small American fundamentalist churches (especially the Dove Outreach group of some 50 in Gainesville, […]
Top Ways 9/11 Broke Islamic Law
On the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is clear that al-Qaeda was a tiny fringe terrorist movement, not a globe-straddling threat to […]
Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job
The horrible era of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States yielded a one-day silly season on Thursday, covered wall-to-wall by the US cable news channels. […]
The Invisible Deluge in Pakistan (Cole in Tomdispatch)
My essay on the strange near-invisibility of the world-historical Great Deluge in Pakistan during the past month is out at Tomdispatch.com (click here). Excerpt: ‘ […]
They used to Burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques
The hysteria about mosques in the United States is nothing new in our history. Even though the United States was founded by a ragtag series […]
Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 Americans, Wounds 9
The killing of two American servicemen and the wounding of 9 others by a Kurdish member of Iraqi special operations unit on Tuesday at Tuz […]
Hellegers: American Income Inequality is the Cause of our Crisis
Plutarch, writing almost 2,000 years ago, told us that “an imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” […]
‘Burn the Qur’an Day’ Endangers US Troops: Petraeus
Every day for the past few days there have been demonstrations in Afghanistan against the scheme of the Christian fundamentalist Dove World Outreach Center in […]
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