Soccer Revolution or Just Business as Usual?

Yesterday's bloody soccer riots in the Egyptian city of Port Said left at least 73 people dead, and top members of the new Egyptian parliament blame the military junta for escalating the violence. Protesters, many of them soccer fans, are now taking to the streets of...

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Senate Calls for Obama to Push Iran Internet Freedom

The Senate's latest in an interminable number of anti-Iran resolutions, in addition to including the usual "crippling sanctions," calls on President Obama to "develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran." Iran, like a number of nations, does censor the...

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Let’s Not Politicize the Holocaust (This Time)

An article this weekend from the Washington Post details the growing internal outrage within Israel against members of their Ultra Orthodox community, centered around the Ultra Orthodox's use of Holocaust imagery in a protest against opposition to their calls to...

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Telephone: MSM Edition

Remember that old children's game Telephone? Where one kid invents a sentence and whispers it to another kid and so on until the last kid has no clue what was said, and where the kid who sits next to the kid with the really bad speech impediment always either loses or...

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Mixed Messages on Terror

While Germany continues to present itself as a key partner in the "War on Terror" and waxes judgmental about factions within NATO-occupied Afghanistan that launch terrorist attacks that kill civilians, they seem to be operating at cross-purposes, having dedicated a...

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A Nuke Too Far?

When you're shilling for a war in Iran as regularly as the Washington Times does, you're constantly making up allegations centering around what anonymous officials totally bet is the case. That and hiring artists to make caricatures of an Ayatollah made of nukes. The...

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Libya: A New War Template Or Just a New Spin?

Robert Burns of the Associated Press today suggested that the "limited military intervention" style of the Libya War is going to replace the massive occupation style of Iraq, where the US has spent eight and a half years and conservatively $800 billion. Which of...

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CIA Assassin in Denver Bagel Store Brawl

Its a pity for Raymond Davis that diplomatic immunity doesn't extend to suburban Denver. Davis, the "consulate employee" (read: CIA assassin) who was arrested in January for murdering two people on the streets of Lahore and started a multi-month diplomatic row between...

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