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Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers
Media Matters and Fair, day in, day out do an excellent job of refuting the often incorrect assertions made on Fox Cable News, which is […]
Rethinking Rethinking Afghanistan, Pt. 1
In honor of Tuesday’s major donor’s conference in Afghanistan, Informed Comment is beginning a series of reposts of the classic six-part documentary, Rethink Afghanistan by […]
Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement:
It’s Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or
Tom Engelhardt, author of the recently-published The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s (Haymarket Books, July 2010) and editor of Tomdispatch.com, writes […]
Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers
Sarah Palin tweeted, “Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn’t it stab you in the heart as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls. refudiate.” […]
NATO Secretly Planning to Leave Afghanistan by 2014;
5 NATO Troops Killed
The Afghanistan War claimed another 5 NATO troops, it was announced Saturday, two of them American and two British. Taliban blew up the gate of […]
Iranian Cleric Blames US in Mosque Bombing
Tabnak reports in Persian on the bombing of the chief Shiite mosque in Zahedan, the capital of the largely Sunni Sistan and Baluchistan Province in […]
Was Amiri a Double Agent who Hyped Iran’s Nukes?
The saga of Shahram Amiri points to a real danger for world peace and prosperity, with the disturbing possibility now emerging that he was a […]
Libyan Aid Ship Extracts Concessions from Israel;
Resumption of House Demolitions in Jerusalem
Al-Sharq al-Awsat [The Middle East] reports in Arabic that the Libyan aid ship, Amaltheal (“Hope” or Amal in Arabic) docked late Wednesday at al-Arish in […]
Global Warming and al-Qaeda in the Greater Indian Ocean
Politico says that the fate of the earth, i.e. the climate bill in the senate, is now in the hands of Sen. Jeff Bingaman of […]