Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Top Ten Differences between Mir Hosain Mousavi and Lady Gaga
Satire alert. Time magazine’s publicists inform me that there is a duke-out going on between Lady Gaga fans and those of Iranian Green Movement leader […]
Afghanistan Attacks Leave 13 Dead
Attacks in Afghanistan left 13 dead and many more wounded on Thursday. A suicide car bombing near an Afghanistan National Army base in Qandahar left […]
Florida Times-Union on Engaging the Muslim World
The Florida Times-Union has an editorial today on the US and the Muslim world (and American Muslims) that draws on my most recent book, Engaging […]
Wright: Assassinations Strengthen Religious Terrorist Groups
Robert Wright argues that not only is assassination (including by drone) legally and ethically troubling, but there is reason to think that it is counterproductive […]
Obama hints that Two-State Solution may be Impossible
President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday that despite the expenditure of substantial political capital by his administration it may be that no progress will be made […]
Englehardt On Bombing People from the Air
Tom Engelhardt on Americans fighting their wars ‘from on high.’ Alas, it isn’t American, it is just industrialized warfare. Pakistan is bombing its own people, […]
US Attitudes, Discourse on Israel Shifting to Realism
A dispassionate examination of Israeli policy and its negative impact on the US at the Wilson Center by 5 former ambassadors is summarized at the […]
Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions at Security Summit
Presidnt Obama’s nuclear security summit scored an early victory on Monday, since Obama was able to announce that Ukraine would give up its stock of […]
Israelis Could Expel Thousands of Palestinians from Palestine
New Israeli regulations allow authorities potentially to imprison or expel from the West Bank tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Israeli right has long favored […]
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