The Iconoclast
It’s 2016, Meet Nadine
Happy New Year
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Munich police warn of imminent terror threat
From the Sky News Police in the German city of Munich have warned of a planned terror attack and have asked people to avoid crowds. The police tweeted that the […]
Watchdog on Washington Corruption: an interview with Christopher Farrell of Judicial Watch-NER
On December 8, 2015, a press release about a long sought Pentagon email sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and aide, Jake Sullivan, by Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash, a deputy […]
The ISIS Chemical Biological Threat to the West: a discussion with Dr. Jill Bellamy-NER
The Islamic State (IS) terrorism’s long arm reaches out from its self-declared Caliphate in Raqqa, Syria. It broke like a thunderclap in the waning days of 2015. There was the downing […]
Is Israel Prepared to meet ISIS Threats on its Northern and Southern Frontiers?
Source: AP Photos Attention has been brought to bear by recent activities on Israel’s northern and southern frontier by ISIS in Syria and the Salafist affiliate in the Sinai, Ansar […]
New Year’s Eve terror attack foiled in New York state
From Local SYR A New Year’s Eve terror attack has been foiled by police in New York state. According to officials 25-year-old Emanuel Lutchman, who has been charged with attempting […]
Middle Class Beastliness
Man, as far as I know, is the only creature who can envisage his own extinction: not only envisage it, but enjoy doing so. Deadly new viruses, collisions with asteroids, […]
The Establishment “Radicals” of the Modern University
Matthew J. Franck writes in
Paris attacks ‘directed by one man in Belgium’
From the French edition of
Three Child Survivors
Translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (January 2016) I. THE 20179TH more>>>
Srinagar, December
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (January 2016) It is winter here. The tulips in the Mughal Gardens stay more>>>
I’ll not talk to you anymore of that sea
by Gopikrishnan Kottoor (January 2016) I’ll not talk to you anymore of that sea, Or of mighty things, that overpower us with such lightness. Perhaps that blue cannot be explained. […]
Two Poems From a Sequence: Nightmare Versions
In these bizarre times our own nightmares can seem a refuge. by Evelyn Hooven (January 2016) LODGED HOMELESSLY Assigned a space In less than an alcove Across from […]
Ali Wheatley’s Party Story
by A. Human Being (January 2016) December 20, 2013: Arkham, Massachusetts, USA What if you had a day when everything…went…wrong? And it was simply this . . . all the […]
Muslim convert jailed after sending vile Facebook threats to female MP
From the I am a Muslim… do you trust me enough for a hug?’ To which the correct answer was, obviosly, NO!
