THREAD (ALSO POSTED AS A SINGLE TEXT ON MY SUBSTACK): Taqiyya. Prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, and the tsunami of Islamophobia it unleashed, I’d never heard of taqiyya. Nor had any of the Muslims or those identified as Muslims I had encountered

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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis: Why does the US see China as a threat? Why is the US waging a trade war against the entire world?

German MEP Tomasz Froelich on the EU's support for the terror and slaughter in Syria

A single Iranian missile left about 2,000 residents of Bat Yam homeless, and will likely require the demolition of 27 buildings. -Ynet

Windy Day at the Red Cabin on Sand Pond, Denmark, Maine

Fire at the ‘Big House’

🇫🇷 French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd: "Our Russophobia has nothing to do with Russia itself. It's a fantasy, a pathology of Western societies, an internal need to imagine a Russian monster. When speaking about Russia, the leaders of France, Great Britain,

More evidence of crackpotism in the Trump administration

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Picture of Iranian forces stealing Iraq's gold during Iran's invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"It's not me, it's the Russians!"

Once opened It’s hard to close the gates of hell again.

Jessie Ventura on Hulk Hogan (RIP):

I am genuinely amazed at how quickly computer science has gone from being the generic major on campuses to something that pretty much no incoming student has any interest in majoring in.

Smash-mouth politics not withstanding Israel is DOOMED—Prof John Mearsheimer youtu.be/1Zel0FY3dbE?si… via YouTube