The Syrian uprising is a year old, and France 24 has a collage of videos chronicling these dramatic and bloody events. The world community has failed Syria, just as it failed Rwanda and the Congo, though the human toll in Syria is a fraction of those killed in the African events. Russia and China have […]
Israel’s Atom Bomb Factory in 3D
An Israeli news magazine reported in 3D animation on Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility, which produces enough plutonium every year to make another 10 nuclear weapons (Israel is thought to have 400 atom bombs, among the biggest stockpiles in the world). The report is based on the information given by nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, treated by […]
Omar Khayyam (63)
Every heart in which the light of love shines– whether worshipper in a mosque or member of a church– and those who write their names in the book of passion are liberated from hell and free of paradise. Translated by Juan Cole from [pdf] Whinfield 58
US Public to Israel’s Likud: On Iran, Negotiate or you are on Your Own
A new poll shows that the US public, showing a broad consensus across parties, wants the Iran nuclear enrichment issue dealt with through negotiations. They even want to entrust the issue to the UN security council. They think that the US should discourage Israel from attacking Iran. They are convinced that an attack would be […]
Afghanistan Senate Chants Against US, Speaker Threatens to Evict it
The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Afghan Islamic Press news agency in which the speaker of the Afghanistan parliament threatens to throw US out of Afghanistan they way Afghans threw the old Soviet Union out. Afghan Senate blasts civilians’ killing by US soldier in south Afghan Islamic Press Tuesday, March 13, […]
Omar Khayyam (60)
I am not suited to the mosque nor fitted to the church The Lord knows what he made my clay from. I am like an atheist mystic or an ugly prostitute: Neither religion nor worldliness, and no hope of paradise. Translared by Juan Cole from [pdf] Whinfield 58
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay
In energy terms, we are now entering a world whose grim nature has yet to be fully grasped…
Cheney afraid to speak in “Dangerous” Canada
Dick Cheney has cancelled a talk in Toronto because, he says, “Canada is too dangerous.” This is the ultimate chicken hawk, who had 5 deferrals from serving in Vietnam, and who sent thousands of US troops to protect his oil in Iraq, where 30,000 were seriously wounded and nearly 5000 killed. But, you know, he […]
Afghanistan Massacre: Unstable Soldiers, Untreated Brain Injuries, PTSD
AP is reporting that the staff sergeant who killed 16 Afghan villagers near Qandahar on Sunday morning had suffered a head injury in a vehicle incident in Iraq, before being deployed to Afghanistan. He had been “trained as a sniper.” Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, under pressure from the Afghanistan government of Hamid Karzai to […]
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