Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]
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Top Ten Questions about Chile Mine Collapse: Was it Nixon-Kissinger’s Fault?
The corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story. […]
Ahmadinejad Pledges to Protect Lebanon
On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed large and adoring crowds in the southern Shiite suburbs of Beirut, which had been intensively bombed by Israeli […]
Palin Fear-Mongers on Iran, Sharia
Republican gadfly Sarah Palin said in an interview with Newsmax Tuesday that Russia should be warned against helping Iran because if Iran got a nuclear […]
Ahmadinejad Greeted by Cheering Throngs in Beirut
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, being greeted enthusiastically by large crowds (probably mostly Shiites) who lined the streets as his retinue […]
Google imagines an Atlantic Wind Grid
One of the problems with new green energy installations is the need to funnel the power, facility by facility, into the existing electricity grid. Google […]
Cole on Ahmadinejad at Truthdig
My column on Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Lebanon is up at Truthdig: Excerpt: ‘ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Middle East’s populist answer to the American […]
Abbas: Israel has Abrogated the Peace Process
Palestinians declined to take the bait of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday. Netanyahu offered an extension of the 10-month freeze on new Israeli […]
Bee Study Sponsor Went Unmentioned in NYT Article
You know that New York Times story that implicated a ‘tag team’ of virus and fungus in the collapse of American bee colonies? And how […]
Israel Declares for Ethnic Nationalism
The Israeli cabinet has approved a measure that would require persons applying for Israeli citizenship to affirm the “Jewish and democratic” character of Israel. The […]
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