ARMAGEDDON OR REDUCTIONISM?
One pundit this week chided Jordan’s present and previous ruler for warning that US intervention - or inattention - would cause the Middle East to go up in flames. Like several of his estimed...
View ArticleLearning To Leave The Middle East
In a provocative essay in the May Prospect, contrarian scholar Edward N. Luttwak argues the following:First, that "five minutes to midnight" Arab/Israeli catastrophism is a mirage: the conflict is...
View ArticleNYT Op-Ed: Obama is an apostate Muslim!
The NYT, proving yet again that it's the most "liberal" paper of the whole "liberal" media, produces the opposite meme of "Obama is the Hamas candidate."Yes, folks, it's "Obama is an apostate Muslim!"...
View ArticleAli Eteraz shoots down Luttwaks' Muslim-baiting
This morning, the New York Times hammered another nail in the coffin of its journalistic integrity by publishing a lazy and poorly researched bit of Muslim-baiting by Edward Luttwak. Despite being...
View ArticleNYT hosts Edward “Sh*t-Meister” Luttwak
I’ll say one thing for Edward "Shit-Meister" Luttwak: He does not mind taking a foul crap in the middle of the NYT Op-Ed pages and luxuriantly smearing himself in his own bigoted shit. The NYT had...
View Article"Objective" journalism: post-modernism in practice?
I'm glad the NYT public editor called out the NYT op-ed editor on the Luttwak "Obama is a Muslim apostate" nonsense. Not only was the piece a transparent exercise in religious bigotry, it was wrong....
View ArticleCoup Talk
Yesterday, the conservative, often controversial (and even more often debunked) media organization Newsmax published an article by John L. Perry that describes how a coup d'etat against President Obama...
View ArticleMonday Musing #16: Bigger Than Wikileaks?
An alarm went off when I learned that Michael Chertoff was the man pushing the inane full-body-scan machines on our government, in response to a Nigerian man boarding a plane in Amsterdam on December...
View ArticleWas the Pentagon's holdup on Jan. 6 not what it seemed?
I was somewhere in the middle of The Death of Yugoslavia1 on Wednesday night when a thought suddenly came to me about the disturbing delay in providing National Guard troops to the Capitol. Watching...
View ArticleUkraine Update: Russia wants to freeze the conflict because it can't hold its...
Amidst recent Ukrainian battlefield gains, nothing says “Russia knows it can’t hold its ill-gotten gains” more than the sudden flurry of propaganda selling “negotiations” to end the war.
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