Sunday, July 21, 2013
Intercepted N. Korean Ship Described as Filthy 'Pigsty"
Urine Stench, Rat Droppings and Soviet-Era Weapons
The intercepted North Korean ship that was smuggling Cuban arms is a floating cesspool.
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US-Backed Muslim Brotherhood Attacking Coptic Christians
The so-called moderate Islamists with whom President Obama has aligned the United States are attacking Egypt's Christians, blaming them for the ouster of the country's Islamist president.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Financialization in Action: Wall Street Investment Bank Mints Money by Moving Metal in Decrepit Part of Bankrupt Detroit
As if to illustrate the devastating deindustrialization and financialization of the U.S. economy in the global era--i.e. the relentless outsourcing of real economic activity and reduction of all economic value to financial instruments or derivatives of financial instruments--Goldman Sachs is minting money by moving aluminum ingots among a string of warehouses in a derelict section of bankrupt Detroit.
Click here and here for the mind-blowing, bizarre story that reads like a finance capitalism--or casino capitalism--case study.
Spy Capitals in Focus: Vienna
More than two decades after the Cold War, Vienna remains a major spy center.
Click here for history; here, to read about Iranian spies in the Austrian capital; below, to watch one of the great scenes in spy cinema--in fact, in cinema--history, set in Vienna after World War II.
Syria's Secular Rebels Overshadowed, Outgunned by Islamists
What the Obama administration, Europe, Turkey's Islamist regime, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Islamist-run Libya and Egypt's ousted Muslim Brotherhood regime have wrought in Syria: jihad, chaos, car bombings and cannibals. Syrian Sunnis are being asked to choose between so-called moderate Islamists--a moronic oxymoron--Qatar-backed Salafists, and Al Qaeda.
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Friday, July 19, 2013
Recalling Hitchens on 'How Far the Termites Have Spread'
Response to a Leftwing Apologist for Islamic Clerical Fascism
Arab World TV Star Grieves for Syria
An interview with Abbas al Nouri. Click here to read it.
Al Nouri is the star of Bab Al-Hara (the Neighborhood's Gate), one of the most popular TV series in the Arab world. Click below for a promo video about the series, set in Old Damascus.
There is an Arab world, of course. But one would not know this listening to President Obama, who has insisted on addressing and "reaching out" to "the Muslim world."
Related: US Urges More Arms for (Al Qaeda-Linked) Islamist Rebels
Sultan Erdogan Slams Egypt 'Coup'
Obama's "friend" and "partner," Turkey's wannabe Islamist sultan, is emerging as the fiercest critic of Egypt's pro-civil society military intervention.
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Related: Morsi Gave Free Hand to Sinai Jihadists
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