". . . So I don’t think Ankara is likely all that upset about Daesh losing Jarabulus, but it might be apprehensive about what comes next."
Uh, don't you mean Damascus?
I think you should have used the term 'Arabic heritage' in your title instead of 'Arabic writing.' Your fifth example has nothing to do with Arabic writing.
What is worrying about right wing Israeli incursions on the Al-Aqsa Mosque is that their is an organized campaign to replace the mosque with the third Jewish temple. link to indiegogo.com link to en.wikipedia.org
In a related note, over on Charles Stross' blog, Frank Landis has written what he calls a 'sourcebook' on the future of the Earth after climate change. By future, he means like 400,00 years in the future. He's posted the first five chapters on a link. link to antipope.org
For more info on the contra cocaine connection go read Gary Webb's Dark Alliance link to en.wikipedia.org
You can buy it at Amazon.
People accuse Reagan of starting the crack cocaine epidemic. Actually North's plan was to sell the cocaine in Hollywood & make liberals pay for funding the contras. Except everyone in Hollywood already had their own dealer, so they had to give it to Freeway Rick Ross link to en.wikipedia.org
This is what Paul Krugman has been saying: throwing out the Euro & bringing back the drachma is the only way Greece can get out of its financial problems.
FLA could have a referendum on whether electric utilities will be required to lend customers money to built solar panels on their houses & can charge them a reasonable rate on their utilities bills to pay back the loan.
Unless they are indeed talking about buying 8 to 10 year olds, their talking about buying girls 12 to 18. Which isn't pedophilia but Hebephilia link to en.wikipedia.org & ephebophilia link to en.wikipedia.org. What is horrific here is the slavery.
Don't you wish, sherm. Or are you really a space alien that wants to increase Earth's temperature so your species will thrive & humans drop from the heat? Just asking.
And I call BS on the post. Afghanistan got hundreds of Stinger missiles, ending Soviet air superiority. Since than, how many airliners were shot down by jihadis with Stingers? None.
James McMichael, have you posted an article blasting the Syrian Army for dropping barrel bombs on residential neighborhoods?
"Mitt Romney: Of course it’s time for the Assad dictatorship to end. And we should use covert activity, as Speaker Gingrich has just indicated. Look– the– the reason I disagree with Ron Paul on this is– that you have, in Syria, a nation which is an ally, the only Arab ally, of Iran. It is arming Hezbollah. It represents a– an access– of– of great significance to Iran. And as a result, because of our concern about Iran, and their effort to become the Hageman in the Middle East, it is important for– for us as a nation to stand up and to help those efforts to– to replace A– Assad. . "
The HAGEMAN? I think he meant to say 'hegemon'. Or maybe he did, & the transcriber didn't know it is a real word.
Professor, did you know that Daily Kos, a website dedicated to electing Democrats, has banned Press TV videos as being antisemitic? A commentator on the site found news stories discussing the Jewish & Israeli organ gangs that called it a 'Jewish conspiracy.' This was deemed using the 'blood libel,' and so the moderator Meteor Blades banned Press TV videos. Now I can't use the Press TV Gaza stringer in video diaries on Israel & Palestine on Daily Kos.
Well, maybe the public will get interested in Afghanistan again because of a sex scandal:
WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops link to blogs.houstonpress.com
Yes, Pres. Obama is not Roosevelt, but then Roosevelt wasn't the mythical Roosevelt. He tried Keynesianism to get the US out of the Depression, but when everything looked OK, he went back to what he believed, a balanced budget, & revived the Depression.
Rice University is trying to sell its' student run station KTRU to the University of Houston. See link to savektru.org. Needless to say, the students aren't happy. Neither are listeners to a non-commercial station that plays eclectic music, & has shows like Genetic Memory (Avant Garde music), The Navrang Show ( south Asian music), Chickenskin Music (alternative country), & others.
Meanwhile, over in the UK, it looks like Murdoch may be taken down a peg by a scandal in which his tabloids had hired PI's to hack into the phones of the Royal household, MPs & celebrities. link to nytimes.com link to guardian.co.uk
B Schmidt, your argument doesn't hold water. You are basically saying that 'your' religion trumps others, so 'liberals' have to compromise. This ignores the fact that evangelical & fundamentalist Christians are just sects of Christianity. The Methodist church I grew up at is now 75% gay male, & won't let weddings of straight couples take place in it until gay couples can marry. And the part of the Bible you are basing your 'morals' on also says you are supposed to sell me your sister if I ask you. The compromise is separation of church & state. No religion or sect gets to make its' dogma the law. The Founding Fathers thought this was the best way to do things, & they were right.
AMY GOODMAN: Respond to President Obama’s announcement.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, first of all, what President Obama is doing is implementing the policy that was on the desk of George W. Bush when he left the White House. This is essentially the Petraeus-Bush Iraq plan. So, the idea that Obama is making good on a campaign pledge to end the war is sort of playing with words, because the reality is he just implemented what was current US policy when he came into the White House.
What I think is more important for people to understand is, when President Obama talks about how the war is going to be shifted over to the diplomats, that doesn’t just mean that all of a sudden there’s going to be negotiations by pencil pushers. The fact is that Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, last month submitted a request to the Pentagon for an incredible beefing up of the State Department’s own paramilitary force. And what the State Department is saying is, when you take out all these combat troops, we want to have a replacement for that capacity. So Clinton, who as a candidate for president said she would ban Blackwater and other mercenary firms, is now presiding over what is going to be a radical expansion of the use of these companies and private soldiers in Iraq. The US embassy is the size of eighty football fields; you know, it’s the size of Vatican City. The Vatican has embassies around the world. Our embassy is the size of the Vatican, in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: Is it the largest US embassy in the world?
JEREMY SCAHILL: It’s the largest embassy of any country in the history of civilization. I mean, it’s a city unto itself. And it necessitates, Hillary Clinton believes, between 6,000 and 7,000 private security operatives. Just to put this in perspective, there are 4,000 special forces operators deployed in seventy-five countries around the world. That is the US special forces deployment under Obama. Hillary Clinton wants 7,000 of these guys just in Baghdad alone to protect the US embassy.
There are also—the State Department also has plans to remake some US bases into what they call "enduring presence posts," EPPs. And so, you’ll have these outposts around the country that are essentially—what is essentially unfolding here is a downsized and rebranded occupation, Obama-style, that is going to necessitate a surge in private forces. The State Department is asking for MRAP vehicles, armored vehicles, for Black Hawk helicopters and for these paramilitary forces. So, yes, you can say that officially combat has ended, but in reality you’re continuing it through the back door by bringing in these paramilitary forces and classifying them as diplomatic security, which was Bush’s game from the very beginning.
The main reason Hamas doesn't let the Red Cross visit Gilad Shalit is they're afraid Israel will find out from them where they are holding the Israeli soldier. Then, sure as shooting, the IDF will try to rescue him by force, probably killing him in the process.
BoingBoing had an article about this also link to boingboing.net. What's interesting is that it is illustrated with a scene from a Malaysian museum showing a Confucian woman breastfeeding her father-in-law as a sign of fidelity. Commenters also mention in the thread the story of Roman Charity, where a woman Roman breastfeeds her father-in-law while he is in prison to stave off starvation, like the ending of 'Grapes of Wrath'. link to en.wikipedia.org
My take on the IDF video is that the attackers are the crew of the ship. The Israelis must have killed someone in the crew while they raked the ship with gunfire, & the sailors snapped.
Ah, nuclear power . . . This technology keeps getting brought up over & because it is 'carbon-free' & pollutionless. Except nuclear reactors release xenon, krypton, & argon gases as they operate. Except uranium fuel is formulated with CFCs, & the main plant in the US where this occurs is powered by coal plants(and it leaks the afore-mentioned CFCs.) Except the NRC says that each 20year reactor term will cause 12 cancer deaths (coal causes 30000 per year, & wind none.) Except that build nukes to fight global warming would take too long & cost too much according to Environmental California link to environmentcalifornia.org. I mean, look at the Finns.
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Scientists & their supporters marched in Houston TX Saturday(Hey, I was there):
link to houstonpublicmedia.org
Clinton Derangement Syndrome resurfaces.
(cough)Three Mile Island (cough)(cough) Chernobyl (cough)(cough)(cough) Fukishima.
I would like to point out for you & the Saudis, solar panels are made from silicon & so are sand dunes.
". . . So I don’t think Ankara is likely all that upset about Daesh losing Jarabulus, but it might be apprehensive about what comes next."
Uh, don't you mean Damascus?
I think you should have used the term 'Arabic heritage' in your title instead of 'Arabic writing.' Your fifth example has nothing to do with Arabic writing.
What is worrying about right wing Israeli incursions on the Al-Aqsa Mosque is that their is an organized campaign to replace the mosque with the third Jewish temple.
link to indiegogo.com
link to en.wikipedia.org
In a related note, over on Charles Stross' blog, Frank Landis has written what he calls a 'sourcebook' on the future of the Earth after climate change. By future, he means like 400,00 years in the future. He's posted the first five chapters on a link.
link to antipope.org
Here's something I saw on the blog pharyngula:
link to freethoughtblogs.com
People want change. Sanders offers it to them
For more info on the contra cocaine connection go read Gary Webb's Dark Alliance link to en.wikipedia.org
You can buy it at Amazon.
People accuse Reagan of starting the crack cocaine epidemic. Actually North's plan was to sell the cocaine in Hollywood & make liberals pay for funding the contras. Except everyone in Hollywood already had their own dealer, so they had to give it to Freeway Rick Ross link to en.wikipedia.org
This is what Paul Krugman has been saying: throwing out the Euro & bringing back the drachma is the only way Greece can get out of its financial problems.
In what alternate universe is the next president a Republican? Hillary beats all Republican contenders in polls.
FLA could have a referendum on whether electric utilities will be required to lend customers money to built solar panels on their houses & can charge them a reasonable rate on their utilities bills to pay back the loan.
And rape.
Unless they are indeed talking about buying 8 to 10 year olds, their talking about buying girls 12 to 18. Which isn't pedophilia but Hebephilia link to en.wikipedia.org & ephebophilia link to en.wikipedia.org. What is horrific here is the slavery.
Don't you wish, sherm. Or are you really a space alien that wants to increase Earth's temperature so your species will thrive & humans drop from the heat? Just asking.
And I call BS on the post. Afghanistan got hundreds of Stinger missiles, ending Soviet air superiority. Since than, how many airliners were shot down by jihadis with Stingers? None.
James McMichael, have you posted an article blasting the Syrian Army for dropping barrel bombs on residential neighborhoods?
Around Houston TX, it looks like sea level rise will mean Baytown, Pasadena, & Texas City --where all the oil refineries are-- will be under water.
Hasbara fail by Julia Harris.
Trolls are trolling.
Prof. Cole, it is the PFLP-GC link to en.wikipedia.org not the PFLP which Syria gave the go ahead to.
Why are you using a player that stops & starts on this website? Can't you get Al Jazeera from their website, which uses YouTube?
In your first sentence, you say:
"Scotland has approved 11 wind turbines in Aberdeen, which will supply have the town’s electricity."
Shouldn't that be half?
You mean turning it over to someone like Amy Goodman or Pacifica ?
Ken Kesey once said the effects of marijuana was along the lines of "Relax. Lay in the hammock & learn to play the guitar" . . .
"Mitt Romney: Of course it’s time for the Assad dictatorship to end. And we should use covert activity, as Speaker Gingrich has just indicated. Look– the– the reason I disagree with Ron Paul on this is– that you have, in Syria, a nation which is an ally, the only Arab ally, of Iran. It is arming Hezbollah. It represents a– an access– of– of great significance to Iran. And as a result, because of our concern about Iran, and their effort to become the Hageman in the Middle East, it is important for– for us as a nation to stand up and to help those efforts to– to replace A– Assad. . "
The HAGEMAN? I think he meant to say 'hegemon'. Or maybe he did, & the transcriber didn't know it is a real word.
OK, what does the cartoon mean?
Actually Richard Silverstein reported that the newspaper Al Masry Al Youm claimed the attackers were Egyptians link to richardsilverstein.com.
You need to get a better map. It doesn't even have Brega on it.
Apparently the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel contains persons who believe there is no legitimate Palestinian state
link to youtu.be
Well said, Prof. Cole. Though this post made the hairs on the back of my head stand up, because it is so accurate.
Actually, if you click thru to YouTube, the vid will play(after commercial.)
They can have my trebachet
when they have sacked my keep
& stuck my head on a pike . . .
Travis, we always have drugs & pr0n.
sTiVo, you're taking too much Prozac, man. Put down the pill bottle!
The caption is "KEN O'KEEFE? What do they have against Ken O'Keefe?
Professor, did you know that Daily Kos, a website dedicated to electing Democrats, has banned Press TV videos as being antisemitic? A commentator on the site found news stories discussing the Jewish & Israeli organ gangs that called it a 'Jewish conspiracy.' This was deemed using the 'blood libel,' and so the moderator Meteor Blades banned Press TV videos. Now I can't use the Press TV Gaza stringer in video diaries on Israel & Palestine on Daily Kos.
Well, maybe the public will get interested in Afghanistan again because of a sex scandal:
WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops
link to blogs.houstonpress.com
"Campus Watch, which is a neo-McCarthyite attempt to intimate US college professors . . ." Shouldn't that be intimidate ?
Very good column, Prof. Cole.
Yes, Pres. Obama is not Roosevelt, but then Roosevelt wasn't the mythical Roosevelt. He tried Keynesianism to get the US out of the Depression, but when everything looked OK, he went back to what he believed, a balanced budget, & revived the Depression.
Rice University is trying to sell its' student run station KTRU to the University of Houston. See link to savektru.org. Needless to say, the students aren't happy. Neither are listeners to a non-commercial station that plays eclectic music, & has shows like Genetic Memory (Avant Garde music), The Navrang Show ( south Asian music), Chickenskin Music (alternative country), & others.
Meanwhile, over in the UK, it looks like Murdoch may be taken down a peg by a scandal in which his tabloids had hired PI's to hack into the phones of the Royal household, MPs & celebrities.
link to nytimes.com
link to guardian.co.uk
B Schmidt, your argument doesn't hold water. You are basically saying that 'your' religion trumps others, so 'liberals' have to compromise. This ignores the fact that evangelical & fundamentalist Christians are just sects of Christianity. The Methodist church I grew up at is now 75% gay male, & won't let weddings of straight couples take place in it until gay couples can marry. And the part of the Bible you are basing your 'morals' on also says you are supposed to sell me your sister if I ask you. The compromise is separation of church & state. No religion or sect gets to make its' dogma the law. The Founding Fathers thought this was the best way to do things, & they were right.
Jeremy Scahill points out that an increase in Bloackwater-type mercenaries will follow the US pullout:
link to democracynow.org
AMY GOODMAN: Respond to President Obama’s announcement.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, first of all, what President Obama is doing is implementing the policy that was on the desk of George W. Bush when he left the White House. This is essentially the Petraeus-Bush Iraq plan. So, the idea that Obama is making good on a campaign pledge to end the war is sort of playing with words, because the reality is he just implemented what was current US policy when he came into the White House.
What I think is more important for people to understand is, when President Obama talks about how the war is going to be shifted over to the diplomats, that doesn’t just mean that all of a sudden there’s going to be negotiations by pencil pushers. The fact is that Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, last month submitted a request to the Pentagon for an incredible beefing up of the State Department’s own paramilitary force. And what the State Department is saying is, when you take out all these combat troops, we want to have a replacement for that capacity. So Clinton, who as a candidate for president said she would ban Blackwater and other mercenary firms, is now presiding over what is going to be a radical expansion of the use of these companies and private soldiers in Iraq. The US embassy is the size of eighty football fields; you know, it’s the size of Vatican City. The Vatican has embassies around the world. Our embassy is the size of the Vatican, in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: Is it the largest US embassy in the world?
JEREMY SCAHILL: It’s the largest embassy of any country in the history of civilization. I mean, it’s a city unto itself. And it necessitates, Hillary Clinton believes, between 6,000 and 7,000 private security operatives. Just to put this in perspective, there are 4,000 special forces operators deployed in seventy-five countries around the world. That is the US special forces deployment under Obama. Hillary Clinton wants 7,000 of these guys just in Baghdad alone to protect the US embassy.
There are also—the State Department also has plans to remake some US bases into what they call "enduring presence posts," EPPs. And so, you’ll have these outposts around the country that are essentially—what is essentially unfolding here is a downsized and rebranded occupation, Obama-style, that is going to necessitate a surge in private forces. The State Department is asking for MRAP vehicles, armored vehicles, for Black Hawk helicopters and for these paramilitary forces. So, yes, you can say that officially combat has ended, but in reality you’re continuing it through the back door by bringing in these paramilitary forces and classifying them as diplomatic security, which was Bush’s game from the very beginning.
The main reason Hamas doesn't let the Red Cross visit Gilad Shalit is they're afraid Israel will find out from them where they are holding the Israeli soldier. Then, sure as shooting, the IDF will try to rescue him by force, probably killing him in the process.
BoingBoing had an article about this also link to boingboing.net. What's interesting is that it is illustrated with a scene from a Malaysian museum showing a Confucian woman breastfeeding her father-in-law as a sign of fidelity. Commenters also mention in the thread the story of Roman Charity, where a woman Roman breastfeeds her father-in-law while he is in prison to stave off starvation, like the ending of 'Grapes of Wrath'. link to en.wikipedia.org
The thing is the activists promised to be non-violent, but the ship's crew never did.
wound over 50 as they Board, Capture Gaza Aid Flotilla
Hasbara brigade sighting!
My take on the IDF video is that the attackers are the crew of the ship. The Israelis must have killed someone in the crew while they raked the ship with gunfire, & the sailors snapped.
Ah, nuclear power . . . This technology keeps getting brought up over & because it is 'carbon-free' & pollutionless. Except nuclear reactors release xenon, krypton, & argon gases as they operate. Except uranium fuel is formulated with CFCs, & the main plant in the US where this occurs is powered by coal plants(and it leaks the afore-mentioned CFCs.) Except the NRC says that each 20year reactor term will cause 12 cancer deaths (coal causes 30000 per year, & wind none.) Except that build nukes to fight global warming would take too long & cost too much according to Environmental California link to environmentcalifornia.org. I mean, look at the Finns.