Month: July 2013

AJ and Qatar: Muslim Brothers’ Dark Empire?

. A brief overview of developments between Egypt and the GCC states over last decades and the role played by MB in Qatar. Al Jazeera and Qatar: The Muslim Brothers’ Dark Empire? (JCPA/ Jerusalem Post) – There has...

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Smug In Our Self-Rightousness

I am sure Charles Pierce enjoyed writing this piece. It feels good to be an artist at the top of your craft, riffing on something that works and packs punch and tells truth to power. It’s powerful imagery that Mr. Pierce...

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Economist Blasts US Secret Government

W. W. Huston in The Economist: Secret Government: America against Democracy You see, democracy here at home must be balanced against the requirements of security, and it is simply too dangerous to leave the question of this...

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Roger Simon Should Stop and Listen

I guess I will never understand how some people think. I keep encountering this bitterness that President Obama commented on the Trayvon Martin case by saying that if he had a son, his son would look like Trayvon. It should be...

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Small Victories

This is pretty stupid. You have to set the bar pretty low to consider it a victory that the House of Representatives passed a Farm Bill full of agricultural subsidies and no nutrition assistance for hungry kids. I guess the idea...

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