Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the Sunday before Christmas, Pope Francis said, “May the weapons be silenced and Christmas carols resound!” according to Kristina […]
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Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni
Mahdi Army Lowers Profile Sunni Guerrillas now Mainly fight Shiites McClatchy reports that Mahdi Army militiamen in Baghdad have adopted a low profile as they […]
If Shoe Were On Other Foot Europeans
If the Shoe were on the other Foot Europeans who use a credit card to buy an airplane ticket to the United States open themselves […]
Attempts At Marginalizing Carter
Attempts at Marginalizing Carter Intensify Fourteen members of the Carter Center have resigned in protest over former president Jimmy Carter’s book,”Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” AP […]
Maliki Said To Have Pledged Mahdi
Maliki Said to Have Pledged Mahdi Crackdown Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that its sources in the Iraqi government are saying that there are some secret […]
Cole In Salon Did Us Just Provoke Iran
Cole in Salon: Did the US just Provoke Iran? My article, “Did the US Just Provoke Iran,” about the Irbil attack and other US-Iranian tensions […]
Terror Attack On Us Embassy In Athens
Terror Attack on US Embassy in Athens Terrorists fired a rocket from across the street into the US embassy in Athens on Friday morning. The […]
Us Forces Storm Iranian Consulate In
US Forces Storm Iranian Consulate in Irbil The US military stormed the Iranian consulate in the northern Iraq Kurdistan city of Irbil on Thursday. Irbil […]
Bush Sends Gis To His Private
Bush Sends GIs to his Private Fantasyland To listen to Bush’s speech on Wednesday, you would imagine that al-Qaeda has occupied large swathes of Iraq […]
Groundhog Day In Purple Heart
Groundhog Day in Purple Heart Boulevard 50 Dead in Clashes, 46 Bodies Found US and Iraqi forces fought a significant street battle at Haifa Street […]