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Over at The American Conservative, they are getting worked up about Saudi destruction or something of Christian churches. At a glance, the heated discussion appeared to have veered off into comparisons of assorted holy sandals! Whatever! Here’s what I posted: I can’t get past the opening premise of this article! For years (decades?) the Saudis [...]

On the Real News, Sahar Issa, of McClatchy’s Baghdad Bureau, offers some great analysis of the insanity that had engulfed Iraq at the height of the neo-con-era US invasion: I will tell you something. We in Iraq know about proxy wars. We had a very strong proxy war of ourselves here. It was literally Iran [...]

Suicide bombers in Syria?!!! Are you fcking kidding me?!! To Westerners this might seem ‘normal’ for Arabs/Muslims. But it is about as normal as Shia-Sunni internecine slaughter was in Iraq! Iraq is a tribal society, with one’s clan being far more important. AFAIK, intermarriage was widespread across the various sects and religions. (Let’s not forget [...]

An informative interview with the prime minister of Somalia. But left unanswered is the question of funding for Al Shabab. As always, one has to follow the money; and, in the case of Wahabis/Salafists, one typically ends up in Saudi Arabia. You have to hand it to the Zionists: they’re always up-front about what they [...]

Where do the suicide bombers in Iraq come from?