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Iran Looks to China, Russia to Break out of US Sanctions
The four rounds of United Nations Security Council sanctions on Iran are likely about as far as Russia and China are willing to go. Even […]
Newt’s new Crusade against the Arab Spring
Newt Gingrich’s poll numbers and fund-raising have improved recently, as the GOP faithful continue their quest for an ABM (not anti-ballistic missile but “Anyone but […]
Godzilla Carbon Emissions in 2010 Unprecedented
The spike in carbon emissions in 2010, a 6% increase over 2009, was so humongous that the scientists measuring it initially thought that there must […]
Berube on Libya and the Left
Michael Berube does a post-mortem on Libya and the Left, and what he finds is not a pretty picture. Woolly thinking, outrageous lies, moon-eyed Qaddafi-worship, […]
Israel’s Strangulation of Gaza by the Numbers
The Israeli navy illegally interfered with Gaza aid ships on the high seas, Friday, kidnapping the people on the two vessels and sending the ships […]
Would Obama Greenlight an Israeli Attack on Iran?
The Israeli press notes that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and maverick Defense Minister Ehud Barak have been talking up a possible Israeli attack on […]
A Hot Wet Thousand Years and 10 Green Energy Stories to Avert it
The bad news is that I’ve been reading David Archer’s The Long Thaw on climate change projections, and he thinks that the Intergovernmental Panel on […]
Likud Government takes Revenge on Palestinians for UNESCO Membership
The Pan-Arab London daily, al-Hayat, editorializes today that President Obama’s vote against Palestine’s membership in UNESCO demonstrates that his 2009 Cairo speech was “empty words.” […]
Romney Flip-Flops on Mideast, Too: Cole in Truthdig
My column is out in Truthdig, entitled, “Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East”. Excerpt: “The Arab revolutions of 2011 have already removed […]
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