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• Harry's Place
  
• CiF Watch
  Buried by the Guardian: The paper fails to report Iranian leader’s religious justification for genocide: The book, “Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s most important newspaperR...
  
• Terry Glavin: Chronicles & Dissent
  "We're sitting ducks.": Here's a question Ottawa doesn't want anybody asking: Just what legally constitutes a foreign activi...
  
• Crooked Timber
  More Congas, Less Crime: Answers to Questions No One Asked Me, Part 1 of n+1 where n > or = 0 Belle, what’s go-go music...
  
• The Long War Journal
  US drones kill 8 'militants' in North Waziristan strike: Unmanned US strike aircraft launched missiles at terrorists based in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled t...
  
• Jeff Weintraub
  Joshua Landis & Montesquieu on despotism, democracy, & revolution in Syria: Below is a handout I'm about to give to the students in my social & political theory seminar, Ma...
  
• Two Weeks Notice
  50 years of the Cuba embargo: I've repeated myself about the Cuba embargo, probably excessively. But I cannot give up the opportun...
  
• Ezra Klein
  Reconciliation: — Calculated Risk: The housing bottom has arrived. — Covering a campaign in the Twitter Age. —...
  
• The Rubin Report
  Gulf Arab Leaders: Obama Administration Policy is the Biggest Threat to our Security: By Barry RubinWant to understand the real Middle East? Then pay attention to the following. Let’s...
  
• normblog
  Predictable West: You gotta love laugh at the Guardian. Take a look: By vetoing the Arab League's Syria plan, even aft...
  
• Elder of Ziyon
  Did Iran send 15,000 troops into Syria?: From Ha'aretz: A top Iranian military official is activily aiding the regime of Syrian President Ba...
  
• Generation Y
  Out of Service: It weighs more than a “bad marriage,” my grandmother used to say about that enormous black telep...
  
• Dissent
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg
  Saudi Arabia Promises To Go Nuclear if Iran Does: More evidence that Saudi Arabia will not sit idly by if Iran goes nuclear, which means more…...
  
• Grasping Reality with Both Hands
  With the Exception of the 2008 Democratic Primaries, Barack Obama Has Always Been Lucky in His Opponents...: ...
  
• It's Complicated
  The Downfall of Asma al-Assad?: Asma, Rose of the Desert, as she appeared in Vogue.Breaking News: Attempt to smuggle Assad's wife ou...
  
• Jonathan Chait
  Leaving TNR: I don’t know how to say goodbye to a magazine that’s been my home since I was a 23 year...