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Nakhai: Bushehr Plant Going Hot
Nuclear engineer Behrad Nakhai writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment A brief overview of Bushehr nuclear power plant startup (Simplified) Finally, nuclear fuel […]
Republican National Committee Slashes New York Muslim Cabbie
It wasn’t the 21-year-old Michael Enright who drunkenly slashed his New York city cab driver after asking ‘Are you Muslim?’ It was the Republican National […]
Matthews Takes Down Lazio over Half-Truths and Scapegoating of Muslims
Chris Matthews of Hardball takes down New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for his scapegoating of Muslims and aggressive, manipulative tactics, suggesting that the meanness […]
Anzalone: From ‘Martyrdom’ Videos to Jihadi Journalism in Somalia
Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment– which is particularly timely given the bloody attack by fundamentalist gunmen on a Mogadishu hotel, […]
Stewart: Fox Smears Owner Alwaleed bin Talal!
Jon Stewart points out that Fox News anchors and guests are vilifying Saudi prince and financier Alwaleed bin Talal as a financial backer of Imam […]
Bombings Kill 32 in Pakistan NW;
US Drone Strikes Kill 20;
As Floods Advance on Sindh
As Pakistan’s army and political elite focused on the catastrophic floods that have put a fifth of the country under water and displaced millions, militants […]
Cole at CNN: Now the US Should Get out of Iraq’s Politics
My essay, “Now the US should get out of Iraq’s Poltics,” is now at the CNN web site. Excerpt: “Washington should stop trying to shoehorn […]
What would Martin Luther King Say? Mosques and the New Jim Crow in America
The demonstration held on Sunday against the Park 51 Muslim community center in lower Manhattan was an attempt by the right wing to strike at […]
From ’shock and awe’ to ‘advise and assist’ in Iraq
My appearance on the PBS current affairs show Need to Know this weekend with Alison Stewart is now available on the Web. I was discussing […]
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