Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here are the first few paragraphs of my long essay for The New Lines Institute on the Israeli use of […]
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Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States
As the US Supreme Court rules on the universal health care plan, it is worth considering that all of a sudden the courts are playing […]
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)
Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states […]
Graphs of Death: US Drone Strikes Visualized (Pegg)
David Pegg writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism These graphs accurately reflect the Bureau’s data on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan to the most […]
Global Warming and Colorado’s Great Fire
Weather is specific events, climate is the long-term pattern. Catastrophes like the forest fire in Colorado that has expelled 32,000 people from their homes are […]
Letter to President Obama on Yemen: More Aid, Fewer Drones, Please
The Atlantic Council and The Project on Middle East Democracy are worried about the drift in Obama administration policy on Yemen, about the lack of […]
Top Ten Reasons the ‘Obama lost Egypt’ Meme won’t Work for Romney
The Republican Party is trying out a “who lost Egypt” line of attack against President Barack Obama, in the wake of the victory in the […]
Top Ten Reasons ‘Obama lost Egypt’ Meme won’t work for Romney
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Video of the Day: The Nile Crocodile v. Wildebeest
Part of a National Geographic segment on the Nile crocodile and its prey:
Could Syria-Turkey Conflict Pull NATO In?
The shooting down by Syrian anti-aircraft batteries of a Turkish F-4 Phantom jet flying over international waters a few days ago has the potential to […]