THE RED LINE CROSSED, IN THE CROSS-HAIRS, AT TRIGGER POINT — WAITING FOR AN OCTOBER SURPRISE By John Helmer, Moscow First there was the red-line announcement. On Friday in Athens there was the cross-hairs statement. By the month of October, the month before the US presidential election, there will be the trigger point. The US…
Abubakar Shekau: The Man Behind Nigeria’s Boko Haram The Huffington Post | by Nick Robins Posted: 05/07/2014 The name Abubakar Shekau may sound unfamiliar to those who are new to Nigerian politics, but the head of Boko Haram has been a terrifying fixture in West Africa for nearly half a decade. A shadowy figure, Shekau has a reputation for…
The word as virus: Myth-making in the syndication age Submitted by GMason on Sun, 03/18/2012 My general theory since 1971 has been that the Word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host…
ARABICA – A Daily Shot Of What the Arab World is Saying/Hearing/Sharing A R A B I C A ??????? By Kristen Gillespie BLOOD *As the Syrian uprising gets more serious, the logo for the facebook group “Syrian Revolution against Bashar al-Assad 2011” is becoming proportionately bloody. The…
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