Let’s get this straight: Donald Trump is not “good for the Jews,” nor “good for Israel.” Republicans have done a great PR job in conning […]
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Dear Republican Candidates, You Have us all Wrong
Dear Republican candidates: You are campaigning on talking points that do not actually appeal to us. Why are you doing that? Who told you we […]
Omar Khayyam (2) [Whinfield 1]
At dawn a shout awoke us in that watering hole… you crazed carousing drunk! Get up and grab that bottle let’s finish what we started […]
Why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Victory at the Polls May not be Decisive
The Muslim Brotherhood received a little over a third of the votes in the third round of elections for the lower house of parliament. Since […]
World’s Stupidest Guerrillas Kill over 70 Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq
Guerrillas in Iraq staged a serious of bloody bombings targeting Shiites on Thursday. Shiite Muslims are on the move, meeting and going on pilgrimage to […]
Jahanpour: As US and Iran Confront Each other, where is the Diplomacy?
Dr. Farhang Jahanpour writes in a guest column for Informed Comment : The war of words between Iran and the West has reached dangerous proportions, […]
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, Buying Congress in 2012
My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve…
Turkey Warns against Sunni-Shiite Civil War in Mideast
Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu Ahmet Davutoglu warned Wednesday in Tehran against a Sunni-Shiite civil war in the Middle East, which he said was being encouraged […]
Omar Khayyam (1) [Whinfield 26]
In these one, two, three days a lifetime has passed, like cascading waters or a desert squall. But regret for two days […]
US sees Iranian Military Spending as Threat
courtesy Ben Adler @ Reuters