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By: Aaron Datesman It's easy to recognize a win when it comes with a trophy at the end (or, in the case of politics, an inauguration). It's harder to recognize a win when somebody else gets the...
There's not much funny about the massacre of twelve people in Paris yesterday. But it is genuinely funny, as well as completely predictable, that Marine Le Pen hopes to ride to power on their dea...
Naftali Bennett is Israel's Minister of the Economy and leader of the ultra-right wing religious party Jewish Home. He's also a leading candidate to be Israel's next Defense Minister, and as t...
This is extremely important information from the New York Times : > THE CIASAVEDLIVES.COM WEBSITE WAS ORGANIZED BY BILL HARLOW, THE > C.I.A.’S DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS FROM ...
Jefferson Morley was a reporter at the Washington Post in 1996 when the San Jose Mercury News published Gary Webb’s series about the how the CIA protected cocaine traffickers who were helping ...
The upper class in every country always believes the commoners are appallingly crass, irrational and impolite. (For instance, here’s a column by George Will called ”Civility and Civilization....
On February 4th, 1991, as the U.S. bombed Iraq during the initial phase of the first Gulf War, Christopher Hitchens appeared on C-Span with Morton Kondracke. This was Hitchens' prediction of how...
Today, September 11th, 2014, is a good time for a short quiz. 1. What is this? What did you answer? Did you say "That's the last moments of the lives of thousands of people"? Or "That's a vil...
What should you do when you’re a violent, moronic leader, but your “side” starts protesting your moronic violence? It’s easy: just start wondering out loud why your “side” is complain...
You probably assume there’s nothing funny about the Israeli attack on Gaza, with the death toll among Palestinians currently at 230. (One Israeli has also been killed.) But that’s where you�...
By: John Caruso I don't believe I've seen Jon mention here that he spends much more of his time on Twitter than ATR these days (and his ATR postings are often elaborations of things he's alrea...
Since 2000 and the beginning of the second intifada, Israel has killed 6.5 Palestinians for every Israeli killed by Palestinians, and it’s starting to be a problem for them. (The ratio was more...
Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, one of the biggest promoters of the Iraq war in American journalism, was anxious to share this news today: > ISIS seizes Saddam's formerly nonexistent ch...
Christopher Hitchens on Iraq, 2005 : > THE WELCOME THAT I'VE SEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES GET IN PARTS > OF IRAQ...I WANT TO MENTION FIRST BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WH...
John Kerry , U.S. Secretary of State: > "The bottom line is has betrayed his country, > sitting in Russia where he has taken refuge," he said. "You know, HE > SHOULD MA...