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Category Archives: Iran
Oklahoma!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 March 2018 NO, NO, OKLAHOMA! לֹא תִּרְצָח The last time Oklahoma hogged the global limelight – … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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Caput anni
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 January 2015 The good news is that Antigone1984 is to resume blogging as from today. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military, Poland, Politics, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Crimea, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Kuwait, mass surveillance, Nato, Qatar, spy agencies, typewriters
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War without end
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 November 2013 Contrary to the propaganda disseminated for years by deferential western media, the United … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Military, Pakistan, Russia, USA
Tagged 9/11, Belquis Roshan, Hamid Karzai, jaw-jaw, loya jirga, Operation Enduring Freedom, Taliban, What's new pussycat?, White House, Winston Churchill, World Trade Center
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Mutual Assured Destruction
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 24 November 2013 So the Romans have cut a deal with the Persians. Teheran will limit … Continue reading
The Iraq war: 10 years on
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 March 2013 THE IRAQ WAR 20 March 2003 to 18 December 2011 On 15 and … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Iraq, UK, USA
Tagged Donald Rumsfeld, Geroge w. Bush, Iraq War, Nour al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair
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States Still Warring
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 July 2012 “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye … Continue reading
Posted in China, Iran, Libya, Military, Pakistan, Russia, USA
Tagged Arab Spring, Beaumarchais, Matthew Gospel
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Watch out, Martians!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 March 2012 STAR WARS Here we go again. According to yesterday’s Guardian, UK Prime Minister … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel, Military, Saudi Arabia, UK, USA
Tagged Martians, Milky Way, nuclear weapons, Star Wars
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War and the USA
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 15 February 2012 We continue the process – started on 30 January 2012 – of publishing … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Military, Politics, Torture, UN, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, capital punishment, My Lai, Obama
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