The Iconoclast
For Kerry’s Latest Performance On The World Stage
Even those who deplore his understanding of men and events no doubt wished that his upcoming last-lap performance in Geneva would go well. Merde, in bocca a lupo, break a […]
The Shaving Of Shagpat, And The Re-Taking Of Ramadi
By now, or tomorrow, or perhaps the day after tomorrow, it will all over, or just about, “except for the mopping up.” Here.
Foul Play in Soccer
Soccer is a great sport and the international football competition hosted by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), located in Zurich, every four years is the most watched sporting […]
A Musical Interlude: Egyptian Ella (Ted Lewis Orch.)
Listen here.
Introducing (One More Time) Taha Husain
Or “Hussein.” Or “Husayn.” Whateverly. Here.
More Evidence that Training and Arming Muslims is a Bad Idea
reported Friday. “From 2003-2014 Colonel Khalimov participated in five counterterrorism training courses in the United States and in Tajikistan, through the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program,” Pooja Jhunjhunwala, […]
Egyptian Historian Maged Farag: Egypt Should Drop The "Palestinian" Cause
A remarkable appearance, showing an Egyptian of note expressing, with complete lucidity, the reasons why Egypt has lost so much in joining in the pan-Muslim (and pan-Arab) cause of the […]
Tatyana Navka And Marat Basharov: Tango On Ice
Remember: they are dancing the tango on ice. Icy perfection is the theme. Here.
No, But It Will Help
Headline: Tunisia PM: Destroying boats used by smugglers won’t stop flow of migrants to Europe Of course, what the Arabs in North Africa want is lots and lots of Western […]
An Ayatollah’s Daughter Who Has Slipped Her Mental Traces
A story, told possibly a bit too breathlessly, of an Ayatollah’s daughter who has — it isn’t stated but you and I know — had her fill of Islam, and […]
Should we be concerned about the latest Anthrax Release?
US Army Dugway, Utah Proving Ground The abrupt news that live anthrax samples had been shipped from the US Army Dugway proving ground to laboratories in the US, an […]
Victory in Europe, 1945 by András Mezei
translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (June 2015) 1 MEMORIES ? Like burnt grass, my life endures after the hunger, strife and terror – The sword, […]
Another Tree
by Bibhu Padhi (June 2015) Look at the trees and smile; leave each tree alone, all to itself. more>>>
Alright Already, We Get The Picture — They Have What It Takes Every Which Way
Except, of course, in making their case and in negotiating agreements with the Arabs. But in the life-as-it-is-lived aspect, all of their advances, heralded and unheralded, in so many different […]
Swimmers On The Eisbach
by William Ruleman (June 2015) (Munich, Englischer Garten, 8 June 2014) You let yourself be swept upon Time’s swirling stream In couples, pairs, or all alone As in a […]
The Voyage
by David P. Gontar (June 2015) The three rows of tarnished gas lamps were already roaring at the dock when she arrived. Clouds of ephemeral insects twitched and chittered in the […]
