Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm reports that for the first nine months of 2024, Germany generated more electricity from wind […]
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Saudi-Egypt Crisis Points to Conflict between New Democracies, Old Autocracies
The closure of the Saudi embassy and consulates in Egypt, and the continued demonstrations in Cairo in front of the Ministry of Interior, point to […]
Obama Humor at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
This is C-Span’s video of President Barack Obama’s mostly tongue-in-cheek address at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “[Hillary] won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena.” “It’s […]
Sultan Mosque Singapore (Photo)
Photo by Juan Cole, June, 2009 Sultan Mosque, Singapore Constructed 1928 Architect: Denis Santry of Swan and Maclaren Replaced: Mosque of Sultan Hussein, 1824-1826
“America Does not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy” – John Quincy Adams (Poster)
Israeli Spy Chief Condemns Netanyahu for Iran Hype, Messianism
Former head of Israeli domestic intelligence (Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, said Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are misleading […]
Biden to Romney “Dude, you are so 1975” and “If you Plan war with Iran, tell us Now”
Vice President Joe Biden attacked Mitt Romney’s foreign policy ideas on Thursday. Romney’s policies are to send tens of thousands of troops back into Iraq, […]
A Full Spectrum Confrontation World? (Escobar)
Pepe Escobar writes at Tomdispatch.com: A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies By Pepe Escobar Goldman […]
Omar Khayyam (107) “Not every withered Tulip is going to bloom Again”
Have some wine, since you’ll be sleeping for a long time underground, lacking a best buddy, or a fast friend or lover. Be careful to […]
Rubio Calls for War on Iran, Syria– as Israeli Army Rejects Strike
GOP Vice-Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Wednesday called for unilateral US military action against Syria and Iran and blamed President Barack Obama for declining to […]