Is this a Jewish joke or a Gypsy joke? What do you get when a Jew and a Gypsy go…
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Thank God for Koran Burnings
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and…
Continue reading →Bill Polk’s Afghan Policies: Well Worth Implementing
When a respected eighty-one year old scholar who has known Afghanistan since 1962 returns there in search of a way…
Continue reading →Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, and Privatized War
Sixty-six years ago this month, the American and Free French forces landed in southern France to liberate this half of…
Continue reading →Who Killed Kurdish Journalist Sardasht Osman?
This is no time to be a journalist, especially if you happen to be a Kurd. Under assault from Turkey…
Continue reading →Not Another War on Lebanon
My old friend Norman Finkelstein has just written a foreword to a new edition of his first-rate book on the…
Continue reading →Under Siege: On Emma Williams
In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie’s seventh birthday party failed…
Continue reading →Catalonia Bullfighting Ban: Purely Political and Totally Impractical
At the end of the film Little Caesar, the gangster Enrico Bandello, played by Edward G. Robinson, is shot down…
Continue reading →Failure to Excommunicate
The Catholic Church raised me. The Immaculate Heart nuns who supervised my education from the age of six through thirteen…
Continue reading →War, Women, and the Taliban
It’s only dire necessity That’s taking me to war; And if I were a moneyed man I wouldn’t go for…
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