A new report conducted by researchers at the NYU School of Law and Stanford reveals that US-led drone strikes have killed more civilians in Pakistan than American officials have admitted on the record. While the White House maintains that unmanned aerial vehicles rarely target civilians, researchers say that the number […]
Geopolitics
Last Friday, during question time at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout,” the director of research at the pro-Israel think tank hinted that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get the United […]
Two recent movements have transformed the political landscape. The Occupy movement literally operates in the light of day. The other movement operates in secrecy, with money as its “speech” rather than … well, you know, speech. The Romney video offers us a rare glimpse of the other movement. This movement […]
“Why Is the Arab world so easily offended?” asks the headline atop an article by Fouad Ajami, which the Washington Post published online last Friday to give perspective to the recent anti-American violence in Muslim capitals. “Why Is the Arab world so easily offended?” . Find out why here
[ Last time I looked ~ most Semites spoke Arabic ] In the last day or two we have seen one of the most remarkable policings of the discourse that I’ve ever seen … and it seems to be one man’s achievement, Jeffrey Goldberg, in asserting that the longtime New […]
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The day before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld announced that $3 TRILLION was “missing” from the Pentagon. Do you really think that money is missing? The US might not be able to create ( or “allow” to be more accurate ) a rational health care system, but when it comes to developing […]
The author of ‘Fatherland’ English writer and journalist Robert Harris [youtube]gV5NV0LNtwY[/youtube] wrote a bestselling 1992 thriller that took the form of a 1960’s detective story set in an alternative history in which Nazi Germany won World War II. The novel was an immediate bestseller in the UK. It has sold […]
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free-trade agreement led by the United States in partnership with Asia-Pacific nations like Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and others. If the agreement is accepted by all participatory nations and successfully passed, signatory countries must conform to a rigid set of legal regulations, including […]