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The Sports Report is very excited about the summer issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, “Sports and Games.” Here is an early taste…

Akbar Ganji is one of the most famous Iranian dissidents-in-exile around.  Formerly a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, he became a Greg Palast-style investigative journalist in the 1990s, releasing several tell-all books about the shadowy networks behind the Islamic Republic’s more violent doings.  After several years in jail, along with an 80-day hunger strike [...]

Some of you may not be familiar with the quickly accumulating blooper reel of the new wave of post-Soviet US-tilting democrats.  First, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ate his tie while on camera, spawning various Pythonesque spoofs and ensuring his place in Russian comic mythology (not to mention competing with Werner Herzog for gastronomic freakishness). Not [...]

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Last week something unimaginable happened,finally after 20 years Police Commander Jon Burge walked into a Chicago Federal court house to select the jury that will be judging him on charges of perjury.

I generally think Juan Cole is on the money about Middle East politics.  He speaks and reads Arabic and Persian, so he is not bound by the usual “expertise” which the overwhelming number of Middle East commentators are subject to.  Therefore, when he says that the US will be pulling out most of its troops [...]

North Korea allegedly sinks South Korean Navy vessel. South Korea responds by withholding coverage of the World Cup this summer. Sounds reasonable.

Smokin’ Joe Stiglitz has a short review in the London Review of Books of Robert Skidelsky’s recent book on Keynes and the Great Recession, but it masks a longer think piece on the sources of the crisis and the proper response.  After a little horn-tooting, Stiglitz makes a good point: the current recession is not [...]

Chicago’s Chris Ware – the shyest cartoonist around – proffered a cover for Fortune Magazine recently.  It is a Ware-ian take on the Great Recession and its discontents. Take a look at the details in the cover up close by zooming into the image – you won’t be surprised that it was rejected.

The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later. Stop the George W. Bush Presidential Library! Welcome to the sports report.  Please enjoy these adorable cats protesting the George W. Bush Presidential Library.  More sports related items will be found here soon.

The sale of the USS McInerney, soon to be the PNS Almagir, with its anti-submarine warfare systems and helicopter systems and sea-to-land systems, anti-aircraft systems and guided missile systems, is just another arms deal.

Former TIH guest Naomi Klein evaluates Evo Morales’ stance on climate change and how it could impact global environmental policy.

“On the Charlie Rose programme in January, he recounted a story about a lecture he delivered in Israel a year before his appointment, telling of his involvement in Northern Ireland. Asked afterwards by a member of the audience about the length of the Northern Ireland conflict, Mitchell confirmed it had been 800 years. His questioner [...]