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Mayor Bloomberg and Occupy Wall Street by the Numbers
Brookfield Properties, the owner of Zucotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been gathered for weeks, is insisting on “cleaning” its property on […]
Wagging the Dog with Iran’s Maxwell Smart
I personally do not understand how the corporate media in the US can report the following things about Manssor Arbabsiar and then go on to […]
Is an Iranian Drug Cartel Behind the Assassination Plot against the Saudi Ambassador?
As many observers have pointed out, the story given us by Attorney General Eric Holder about the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador […]
Why did the Egyptian Military Attack the Copts?
Monday saw clashes yet again between Coptic Christians and Egyptian police, when a crowd of mourners gathered outside a hospital where the bodies of some […]
Ballen: Terrorism Can’t be Taken out and Shot
Ken Ballen, author of Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment : The policy of […]
Tawakul Karman, Yemen mother of 3, among winners of Nobel Peace Prize
One of the three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year is Tawakul Karman, 32, a Yemeni activist and mother of 3. Aljazeera has […]
Pro-Perry Evangelical Leader says Romney not a Christian, Mormonism a Cult
The evangelical pastor Robert Jeffres, introduced Rick Perry at the Values Voters conference on Friday, He strongly implied in his introduction that evangelicals would have […]
Palin was Right About those Government Death Panels
Well, the death panel has nothing to do with universal health care. But apparently it does exist, sited in the National Security Council. I discussed […]
Best of the Web on Widening Wall Street Protests
The Occupy Wall Street protests spread Thursday to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Philadelphia, though these rallies were relatively small compared to the estimated 20,000 […]
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