Hello Kurdistan!

11 years ago

I haven't actually watched this video of a discussion last Friday with Namo Abulla of Kurdistan's Al Rudaw and Tzvi…

Charlie Hebdo

11 years ago

It is all too easy to think of many valid reasons to denounce the murder of 12 staff members of…

Never update

11 years ago

An update of peacefare's software this afternoon has created problems I have not yet solved. Some graphics, buttons and items…

This really did cheer me a bit

11 years ago

via @laurenist:

Why we are losing the long war

11 years ago

The United States went to war with Islamic extremism in the aftermath of the murder of nearly 3000 people on…

Scraping the bottom of the barrel

11 years ago

With the likes of Josh Landis predicting more of the same (fragmentation, radicalization, impoverishment, displacement) in Syria, it would be…

Happy New Year Balkans!

11 years ago

A Kosovar friend provides this New Year's view of Vienna, expressed through Albanian music: Trying to be politically correct, I…

Even good things won’t make 2015 a good year

11 years ago

Mark Leon Goldberg wrote just before Christmas that 2015 might be one of those rare years that shakes up the…

Looking for improvement

11 years ago

Armend Kadriu of Pristina daily Kosova Sot asked me to contribute once again a New Year's piece scheduled for publication…

Tehran’s interest in Havana

11 years ago

Hamid Bayati of the Tehran Times asked me some questions about Cuba. I answered: Q. After more than 5 decade…