The IRGC announced that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, and there are reports of British and other vessels turning around
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Top US academic association decries Israel boycott
Association of American Universities releases statement saying measure ‘clearly violates’ academic freedom
FDL Book Salon on Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
Hosting Book Salon at Firedoglake: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Author: Juan […]
Gov’t lost its legitimacy: Turkey's main opposition leader
Turkey’s main opposition leader has raised the pressure on the government over the massive graft probe
Egypt Military Junta Sentences 2011 Revolutionaries to 3 Years Hard Labor
Egypt court jails anti-Mubarak activists for 3 years (via AFP) An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced three activists who spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni […]
Obama warns South Sudan against Coup as US Plane comes under Fire
Obama warns S. Sudan against military coup (via AFP) President Barack Obama warned South Sudan on Saturday that Washington and its allies would cut aid […]
SNL: Not only is Santa Black, but one of his Reindeers is Gay
Kenan Thompson and Cecily Strong make fun of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and her silly insistence that “Santa Clause is white.” (See also IC’s take […]
Walt Whitman’s “Salut au Monde” (Poem of the Day)
(By Walt Whitman) “Salut au Monde” [Greeting to the World: from Leaves of Grass, 1856] 1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! […]
Iranian-Armenian Nurse taking an X-Ray in Isfahan, 1900 (Photo of the Day)
(By Juan Cole) This amazing photograph probably dates to 1900. Taken in at the Christian Mission Society hospital in Julfa, the Armenian neighborhood of Isfahan, […]
NSA bribed Encryption Companies to Install Back Doors: Was the Law Broken? Did Obama Know?
(By Juan Cole) Reuters gets the scoop: the National Security Agency gave internet security firm RSA some $10 million to use an NSA encryption formula […]
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