Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]
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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 […]
O’Donnell SNL Spoof
Saturday Night Live spoofs Christine O’Donnell’s campaign spot in which she denies she is a witch.
Pakistan Opens Khyber Crossing to NATO Supply Trucks but issues Threats over Hot Pursuit
The Pakistani government has decided to reopen the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the route whereby 70 percent of US/ NATO supplies and […]
Have Terrorism, Floods, Poverty Left 1/3 of Pakistanis Mentally Ill?
This The News article about a mental health conference in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, alleges that 1 in 3 Pakistanis suffers from mental health problems as […]
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