This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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17 Bombings of Shiite Districts Kill 113; Fears of Sectarian Reprisals
The LA Times is putting the death toll of Tuesday’s series of 17 bombings of Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad at an astonishing 113, one of […]
Maliki Announces Gain in Parliament as Baghdad mourns Church Massacre
Iraq’s security problems continue to be severe, if not generally crippling the way they were in 2006, as underlined by Sunday’s guerrilla takeover of a […]
Cole in Truthdig: “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House”
My column is out at Truthdig is out, entitled “The World Is Safer Without a Republican House” Excerpt: ‘ Although Congress for the most part […]
On How War with Iran might Destroy the United States
David Broder is a respected political analyst. I once had breakfast with him and I like him. I often think his columns are on the […]
Ted Nugent vs. Jon Stewart: Fumigating the Democrat Rats vs. Can’t we all Get Along?
There were lots of political rallies on Saturday, not just the big one on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The Rally to Restore Sanity / […]
Saudi Arabia Saves Chicago Synagogue from al-Qaeda Bomb Plot
CNN reports that Saudi intelligence was the source of the information on the tracking numbers of two bomb packets sent by UPS and Fedex from […]
Ballot Fraud, Mafia Rule making Afghans Pessimistic: Chayes
I heard Sarah Chayes at the Michigan Theater on Thursday afternoon, speaking on Afghanistan. She is a long time expatriate in Qandahar, where she arrived […]
American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR
NPR reports that Arizona’s fascist immigration law was cooked up and in large part written by the private prison industry in the state, which saw […]
Mission Impossible: Iraq
Mission Impossible: Government Formation Producer and screenwriter: The United States Starring: Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Salih al-Mutlak, Muqtada al-Sadr, Tariq al-Hashimi Sound and […]
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