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Russia: Missiles not Covered by UN Weapons Ban on Iran
After wavering at first, Russian now maintains that the new round of UN Security Council sanctions on Iran do not forestall a sale by Moscow […]
Cameron Plans changed by RPG Threat;
Taliban Resurge in Helmand
British Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to abandon a planned visit to a military base in Helmand, Afghanistan during his trip to that country […]
Gaza Humanitarian Workers Release Video
Democracy Now! interviews Iara Lee about the video she managed to get past Israeli jamming, from the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship […]
Colbert: Palestinians Should Go Back where they Came From
Stephen Colbert, who parodies rightwing t.v. pundits, debates himself on the Israeli assault on the Gaza aid flotilla and tells the Israeli ambassador to the […]
Video Shows Israeli Commando Executing American
Update: Paul Woodward has discovered an earlier video posted to the Web from which the following was apparently culled, via what he calls ‘creative editing.’ […]
BP Spills Coffee
UCB Comedy: BP Spills Coffee:
Israel’s Gift to Iran’s Hardliners:
Cole at Tomdispatch
My essay on the anniversary of the protests in Iran and the ways in which Israeli and US Mideast policy has strengthened the hard liners […]
40 Killed in Afghan Wedding Bombing;
4 US Troops killed in Helicopter Downing
A wedding in Nagaan in Qandahar province was bombed on Wednesday, killing at least 40 persons and wounding at least 70. The new violence comes […]
A Sign of Modernization: Saudi Clerics Promote Kinship by Sharing Breast Milk
Two Saudi clerics have followed an Egyptian one in advocating breast-milk feeding as a way of establishing kinship between men and women, which would then […]
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