Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two visions of the future of Gaza are congealing, in two different power centers. One is the Arab and Muslim […]
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Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenpost has released a March, 2008, US embassy cable describing the Israeli blockade and siege of Occupied Gaza as an attempt to […]
Reagan gave Medicare the Tea Party Treatment
2011: GOP pledges to repeal Health Care as socialist plot, on behalf of big Pharma. 1961: Ronald Reagan attacks Medicare as socialist plot, on behalf […]
Calls for Peace, Tolerance in Cairo
Hundreds of Christians peacefully marched on Tuesday evening to a cathedral in Cairo, protesting the New Year’s Day bombing of the Church of Two Saints […]
Death of Pakistani Progressivism?
Salman Tasir, the governor of Punjab Province in Pakistan, was assassinated by one of his own guards Tuesday, allegedly for his desire to repeal Pakistan’s […]
Wrong Again, Sen. Graham: Cole in Truthdig
My column is just out in Truthdig, entitled “Wrong Again, Sen. Graham,” on the South Carolina senator’s modest proposal to keep two big American air […]
Women enlist as Fighters in Gaza
CNN reports on a handful of militant women in Gaza who have joined the radical al-Nasir Salahuddin Brigades and gained training as guerrillas. The women […]
Taliban Getting Stronger, As US Public Support for Afghanistan War Collapses
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is getting weaker over time, and the Taliban are getting stronger, according to Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for […]
5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas
An environmental mystery: The blogosphere is abuzz about the mystery of thousands of birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas. Such things happen sometimes […]
Glaspie Memo Vindicates Her, Shows Saddam’s Thinking
Wikileaks has released the July 25, 1990 cable by US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie in which she reported her meeting with Saddam Hussein over […]
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