I had the privilege to interview Reni Manukyan, the wife of Ibragim Todashev, the man who was slain while being interviewed by the FBI on May 22, 2013. Unarmed, Ibragim was shot six times in the body and once in the crown of the head. His wife and family want an investigation and the autopsy (more…)
Written in 2000, Dollars for Terror predates 9/11 and calls into question the premise that Islamic terrorism against the United States is a spontaneous expression of Muslims “hating us for our freedoms.” Labévière instead sets out to demonstrate that radical, political Islam is a calculated tactic used to facilitate Saudi hegemony and American mastery over the oil-rich region stretching from North Africa through the Middle East and across Central Asia.
And here’s Rove more recently scolding Ted Cruz for not kowtowing to the Republican Establishment…
Apparently parents weren’t allowed to interrupt this school board meeting in Baltimore, only submit questions in writing in advance, but this parent did anyway…what else could he do? (Notice the mocking looks he’s getting from the “public servants” at the front of the room.) According to the youtube video post, the parent, Robert Small, was (more…)
I just bought Leverett’s book Going To Tehran – can’t wait to read it! I’m also reading and hope to review soon: Dollars for Terror A Modern History of the Islamic World The Looming Tower
Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article on the cover page titled Boston Bombing Suspect Was Steeped In Conspiracies. At first I didn’t know what they were going for. I thought perhaps the media/government thought it would be handy to be able to blame the Boston Marathon Bombing both on radical Islamists AND right-wing extremists (more…)
Much is being made in the news right now about a GOP that is pulling itself apart. The common representation of the struggle is that it is a battle between the far right and the far, far right, or as Mother Jones framed it in describing the Karl Rove PAC dedicated to supporting hand-picked Republicans (more…)
My seven-year-old was doing a class project on Lewis & Clark. One of the questions each student had to answer about his or her historical subject was how much a gallon of milk cost during their lifetime. It was hard to find a chart of historical price levels, probably because it’s so crazy looking. I (more…)
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Click here for the video from the night Ibragim Todashev was shot six times in the body and once in the crown of the head while being questioned about a phone call he had with Tamerlan Tsarnaev before the Boston Marathon Bombing. Despite countless false news reports saying that he was being interrogated as a (more…)