The Iconoclast
Jeh Johnson Receives Award From MPAC, And His Words Scare People
The head of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, receives an award from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee. Remarks he made have been tweeted by members of the audience. Shoulder-to-Shoulder @S2Scampaign Follow […]
Americans Gather Intelligence In Tikrit For Iranian General Suleimani
That’s, in effect, it. Here.
Safavids Scaring Sunnis With Their Imperium
Here. But the Iranian effort in Syria is costing it billions. And in Yemen, the Houthis are swimming in a Sunni sea, and that’s before the Saudis and GCC troops […]
A Good Start: Marine Le Pen Would Halt The Construction Of New Mosques
It’s a start. She would do this until the sources of their funding could be determined. But why stop there? It’s not the sources of the funding that matter; it’s […]
Lake Hamoun On Lac Leman
On Lac Leman the negotiations continue — now in Lausanne rather than in Montreux. Another lake, Lake Hamoun, was the subject of a question I posted the other day: what […]
Self-Determination For The Ahwazi People
Here. Iran cannot remain both Persian and democratic — or “democratic” — with so many non-Persian peoples being held in thrall. The Azeris, the Kurds, the Baluchis (also to be […]
Could I Just Have The Yoga, And Skip The Life-Affirming Workshop In Conscious Living?
Forwarded to me: “Join us for this life-affirming workshop in conscious living. We will practice guided instruction in mindfulness meditation and mindful movement, based on yoga and qi gong. Our […]
Trouble In Old Stamboul
O’erweening, or more exactly megalomaniacal, Erdogan has become too much even for prominent members of his own party. In his neo-Ottomanism, Erdogan has in mind the perfect person to be […]
Exaggerating Tunisia’s "Tolerance" And Ignoring The Role Of France
What Dalia Dassa Kaye fails to note is the role of Bourguiba and the Destour Party, and of the French language, and consequently of the creation of a Tunisian […]
The Man Who Made Singapore
The founder of the independent city-state of Singapore, Lee Kwan Yew, who has just died at 91, was undoubtedly the most intelligent and capable world leader of the past half-century. […]
J Street And The Koch Brothers As Deniers Of Reality
Both wish to deny reality. J Street consists of people who for some reason, no doubt in many cases quite personal, find that belonging to it, and presuming to decide […]
Iraqi Foreign Minister In Damascus For Talks On Common Problems
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A Musical Interlude: Black Coffee (Carroll Gibbons & His Boyfriends, voc. Marjorie Stedeford)
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British Islamic State fighter ‘calls for Muslims to kill Theresa May’
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WSJ: Israel Allegedly Spied on US Negotiations with Iran
Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Obama This Wall Street Journal article, “Israel Spied on Iran Talks,” suggests accusations of spying by Israel on American negotiations with Iran is yet another […]
Who Knows More About The Legal Status Of The Territories Israel Took Possession Of In June, 1967 — Julius Stone Or Denis McDonough?
Julius Stone. Denis McDonough. The Australian jurist Julius Stone was born in 1907. He spent sixty years studying, researching, and writing about, the law, and a special interest was the […]
