Saturday, February 3

America's New Cold War is run by the Office Co-workers from Hell

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The first and irredeemable mistake is asking the co-worker, 'How was your weekend?' Soon one is enduring daily accounts of the co-wo...
Wednesday, January 24

Bhar Do Jholi Meri vitamin for droopy spirits

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Last year I featured the movie version (sung by Adnan Sami for Bajrangi Bhaijaan ) but when I visited YouTube this morning I noticed some c...
Sunday, January 21

Operation Olive Branch. The Responsibility to Protect doctrine eats its own tail

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From a headline today at the (U.K.) Daily Star, " Turkey INVADES Syria – tanks and soldiers cross the border : TURKISH military for...
Sunday, January 14

The smart way to finance U.S. Mexico Wall

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From Col. Pat Lang at Sic Semper Tyrannis ( A Coupla Things , January 12): 1.  A couple of Border Patrol/ICE people tell me that the US do...

Uganda's Ministry of Health tries to put down a panic

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"We are in control. We know everything. ... There is no cause for alarm." What with the story about a wrong-button pusher i...
Friday, January 12

U.S. remains determined to unseat Assad at any cost

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"In Washington last month, I was told that a main strut of U.S. Syria policy going forward would be marshalling America’s international...
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Tuesday, January 2

Mr Trump, Iran is not Selma, Alabama circa 1960s

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(For readers who don't know the significance of Selma for the American civil rights movement,  here's some background.)   Dear Pre...
Thursday, December 21

Merry Christmas to all

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C lassical WETA  90.9 FM Washington, DC live stream .  They go bananas at Christmastime lol. See you next year.  Pundita
Sunday, December 17

In China, a draconian police state emerges from hi- and low-tech strategies

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From an Associated Press report, AP Exclusive: Digital police state shackles Chinese minority by Gerry Shih; December 17. As you can see fr...
Wednesday, December 13

At least Trump now knows how Bashar al-Assad feels

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On Friday America's CNN further cemented its reputation as a purveyor of fake news by reporting that sources revealed to them that Pre...
Saturday, December 9

More Pakistanis learning they have a history before Muslim conquests

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"Progressive [Pakistani] historians — admittedly in the minority still — are trying to educate Pakistani students about their country’...
Thursday, December 7

What an enchanting way to live one's life

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One day an American named Paul Salopek left his work as a war correspondent and began walking. What came from that was an amazing journey on...
Wednesday, December 6

More a firing squad than terrorism in attack at Al Rawdah mosque in N. Sinai

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"Most of the worshippers in the Mosque at the time of the attack were men."( Ahram Online ) "So composed were the militants...