Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The entire nation of Tuvalu, 11,000 people, is making preparations to relocate, reports Sophie Mak at Nikkei Asia . The […]
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Gaza as Israel’s Gimp
In Quentin Tarantino’s camp noir classic, Pulp Fiction, the Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames characters have an altercation and one chases the other into a […]
Arabs Urged US to Launch Attack on Iran, but Talk is Cheap: Cole in the Guardian
My essay on the implications of the wikileaks revelations about Sunni Arab states urging the US to launch a surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities […]
Wikileaks on Israel, Iraq and the Iranian Specter
A 2007 cable from then US ambassador to Israel to Secretary of State Condi Rice shows a) that the Israeli leadership did not want the […]
Wikileaks Gates: No Iranian Help to Taliban
What they tell us: In summer of 2009, it was revealed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair informed the US Congress that, according to […]
Blair, Hitchens Debate Religion
Here is the transcript of the debate between Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens on the motion, “Be it resolved, religion is a force for good […]
Political Cartoon: Obama’s Stitches
President Obama received 12 stitches for a busted lip after being elbowed on the basketball court Friday. In other news, the Pentagon has been dressing […]
149 Alleged Terrorists arrested in Saudi Arabia
Authorities in Saudi Arabia, according to Al-Sharq al-Awsat writing in Arabic, have arrested 149 persons organized in 19 cells on charges of conspiracy to commit […]
Iran Must Free Josh and Shane Now
CNN has a report on the situation of two American hikers kidnapped by Iran, who are being held on false charges of crossing the Iranian […]
Swanson: “‘Freedom Watch’ Threw a War and Nobody Came”
David Swanson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The Neoconservatives, despite wandering in the wilderness after their Iraq debacle, are trying to keep […]
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