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Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan
Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Afraid of the Dark in Afghanistan | TomDispatch “The foreign soldiers, most of them tattooed and bearded, then went on to the […]
Israeli Militarism, Local Conflicts Driving Palestinian Children Crazy
Flesh and Stone – War is hell on the brain: Doctors map psychological disorders in Gaza and the West Bank “23.2 percent had post-traumatic stress […]
Foreign Affairs in Obama’s State of the Union: Caught between the Utopian and the Propagandistic
Understandably, President Obama concentrated on domestic issues, especially job creation, in his State of the Union address. But there were a few paragraphs toward the […]
22 Dead, 80 wounded in Baghdad Crime Lab Bombing,
AP reports that guerrillas drove a car bomb into an Interior Ministry crime lab in the Karrada district of Baghdad on Tuesday, only a day […]
Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu’s office ; Or, Rightwing Politics is Mostly Dirty Tricks
Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu's office – USATODAY.com James O’Keefe, the rightwing activist who tried to punk ACORN by dressing as a […]
Beauty in Arab Culture Quizas in Arabic: Riachi’s "Belaaks"
Headline news of the sort on which I concentrate on at Informed Comment is driven by dramatic events, with violence being the most dramatic. But […]
Juan Cole in Second Life, Virtually Speaking, Thursday at 9 ET
Juan Cole will be a guest in the Second Life virtual world on Jay Ackroyd’s Virtually Speaking interview show at 9 pm Eastern, 1/28/2010. Note […]
37 Killed, over 100 wounded in Hotel Bombings in Baghdad; Guerrillas Seek to Isolate, Destabilize Maliki Gov’t; Chemical Ali Executed
Al-Zaman reports in Arabic on Monday’s string of bombings in Baghdad, in which late reports say 37 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded. […]
Roberts: Death Rates don’t Actually Decline During Wars
Leslie F. Roberts writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment An astonishing version of the Human Security Report was released this past week. It […]