Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]
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German Left Stands up to anti-Muslim Fascists; Clashes in Cologne
3,000 progressives in Cologne clashed Saturday with far rightwing protesters trying to stop the building of a mosque. There are about 3.3 million Muslims in […]
40 Killed in Massive Bombing of Marriott in Islamabad
Guerrillas in Pakistan set off an enormous bomb blast at the Marriott in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad Saturday morning EDT. It left a 30 […]
Sunni Baghdad Dark on Satellite; Kagan Proved Wrong Again
Fred Kagan has once more been proved wrong. He called the ethnic cleansing of Sunni Arabs in Baghdad a ‘myth.’ For all their arrogance and […]
Crowds Protest US in Tikrit after Airstrike Kills Family of 8; Sistani Site Hacked
US troops targeting a Sunni Arab guerrilla appear instead to have killed an Iraqi family of 8 in a town 70 mi. north of Baghdad […]
McCain: Deregulate Health Care just Like Banking!
H t Josh Marshall: John McCain: “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade […]
Ahmadinejad Censored, Distorted in US Media
60 Minutes Interviewed Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad a couple of years ago. They cut some key passages out of the interview. I’ve made the same […]
"Bring’em on"? Are the Sanaa Embassy Attacks Blowback from Iraq?
Newsweek asks if the fundamentalist vigilantes (my term) who hit the US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen included returnees from the fighting in Iraq. If the […]
Provincial Election Law Stalled Again; Arab-Kurdish Disputes Deepen; Da’wa Security Committees Protested by Badr Head
The Iraqi parliament failed for a fifth time to pass a law on provincial elections. Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that after months of wrangling in […]
The Rain in Spain falls Mainly on McCain
John McCain seems to have gotten confused in an interview about Spanish prime minister Zapatero and someone in Latin America. When pressed he kept talking […]
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