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An extra-long edition today because, well, there’s a lot of ground to cover, ranging from the latest Obama idiocy revelation to the last developments in the Asian Game of Zones. We open with the Obamanation, via the Guardian: USAID programme used young...

From Ian: Haaretz senior columnist implicitly calls for a military coup in Israel Israeli radical left Haaretz daily published on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 an article implicitly calling on the army officers to carry out a military coup in order to save...

"The blog is mightier than the sword." --Headline for article by journalist Amit Lewinthal, israelhayom.com (2012), perhaps relevant eons ago (by social-media standards); image from PDCAST [LISTEN] On Culinary Diplomacy: Culinary diplomacy utilizes...

Originally published by Donald Bishop Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine . . . 2. Russia . . . 3. Islamism . . . 4. China . . . 5. Egypt . . . 6. North Korea . . . 7. Vietnam . . . 8. Vietnam War . . . 9. Public Affairs . . . 10. Broadcasting . . . 11. Exchanges...

Kyrgyz nomads, 2011 “Act so that there is no use in a center. A wide action is not a width. A preparation is given to the ones preparing. They do not eat who mention silver and sweet.” — Gertrude Stein, “Rooms,” Tender Buttons (1914) IN 1983, Edward...