Review of Allen James Fromherz, The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present (Berkeley: […]
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South Park Controversy and Fallacies of Muslim Extremists
This CNN report on the veiled threat made by an obscure, fringe American Muslim website against the creators of the South Park cartoon shows an […]
Dear Europe from Gazans
“Dear Europe, sorry about the ash cloud over your heads and that you can’t travel anywhere. We feel just the same.” Gaza
Secret Prison Revelations may Hurt al-Maliki’s bid for Reelection
The announcement of the discovery of a secret prison in Baghdad where Sunni Arabs suspected of involvement in guerrilla activities were held and sometimes tortured […]
Fundamentalist Rally Bombed in Pakistan, Kills two Dozen
Two bombings shook the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing 27 and wounding over 50 persons. Ironically, one bomb hit a rally of […]
Anzalone: The Death of a Caliph
In a guest opinion piece for Informed Comment, Christopher Anzalone asks if the Reported Killings of the Islamic State of Iraq’s two senior Leaders spell […]
Why Economic Sanctions on Iran will Fail
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said at Columbia U. that a military strike on Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities would be […]
Gates Worries about Iranian Nuclear Research, while Khamenei blasts US for Hiroshima
David Sanger of the New York Times gets the scoop– that US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates sent the White House a memo last January […]
Khamenei: US ‘only’ ‘nuclear criminal’ for Hiroshima
The USG Open Source Center translates the speech on Saturday of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to the attendees of a nuclear security conference in Tehran. […]
Top Ten Differences between Mir Hosain Mousavi and Lady Gaga
Satire alert. Time magazine’s publicists inform me that there is a duke-out going on between Lady Gaga fans and those of Iranian Green Movement leader […]
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