The Rectification of Names

Is David Sanger of the New York Times playing a Michael Gordon/Judith Miller role in building up a case for hostility to Iran? Massive stor...

From March 2017, via The Wrap . Trump over the weekend, as reported by The Hill , seemed to be letting an awfully big cat out of his b...

From Joseph Simms, 1873, Nature's Revelations of Character, Or, The Mental, Moral and Volitive Dispositions of Mankind, as Manifes...

Image by  @DannyDutch . My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and...

Image via Sizzle . Shorter Bret Stephens, " On North Korea, Trump's on the Right Track ", July 7 2017: All the boring ...

Breakfast in Korea. To the surprise of one Vice reporter , it's what's for dinner! Seems like a long time since he's hit o...

By the way, I'd like to make just one protest against the meme going around  according to which  President Obama himself is activel...

The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses rega...

Image via All Hat No Cattle . The good news is that the more educated Iran trolls, such as the New York Times's David Sanger and Mi...

Kosher pizzeria in the Jewish compound of Isfahan. Photo by Larry Cohler-Esses . Not feeling snarky or clever for the last day or two, ...

Updated 8/22/2015 These people know what they're doing. Image via Nima Shirazi . Just a quicky backgrounder on the Iran scandale ...

Louis Wohlheim in Sam Taylor's Tempest  (1928). Via MoviesSilently . Here's world-famous military historian David Brooks with ...

The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. (Nah, it's a set design for The Fall of the House of Usher . by Mluisa Paci at Béhance ). ...

Image by Noa Angel, via Digital Journal . Emptywheel noted yesterday: Eid Mubarak. Today Ramadan ends, a big celebration in the Mu...

Wicked Persian fanatics plotting the breakout time for their nuclear device, scheduled for sometime during the Malia Obama presidency. ...

Don't know why they gave Israel a bishop, or a pawn down there among the Marsh Arabs. Via  Gordon Campbell Plans to Bomb Iran'...

Persian of the Circus. Jack Butler Yeats, via . Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov in the New York Times: But it would be dangerous to thin...

In breaking news, it turns out there are people, possibly in Iran itself, in any case people who can type in Persian, who have inexplicabl...

Haaretz's intrepid security reporter Amos Harel (via Richard Silverstein ) reports a shocking-shocking finding: [Israeli] defense sou...

Updated 9/28/2012 From Wide Asleep in America . And read his post! Prime Minister Netanyahu drew his red line ! He drew it on his...