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May 12th, 2021 - 8:45 pm § in America, Biden, Business, China, Christianity, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, Humor, Hypocrisy, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Law and Courts, Misc., News Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Schools & Colleges, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
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Contrite Saudis suck up to Biden
“Saudi Arabia is extending an olive branch to the Biden administration,” Foreign Policy magazine says, noting that, “On Feb. 10, the kingdom released women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul after 1,001 days in prison …. Earlier this year, Riyadh released other politic[...]
Kasparov: “Prepare for the unimaginable”
Editor’s note: Garry Kasparov is best known as a world chess champion, but he’s also an author, speaker, and pro-democracy crusader; and, needless to say, not one of Vladimir Putin’s favorite people. (Visit his website here.) In this op-ed, originally published on CNN (here[...]
Obama’s war
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March 18th, 2020 - 1:00 pm § in America, Biden, Business, China, Christianity, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, Humor, Hypocrisy, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Law and Courts, Misc., News Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Schools & Colleges, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Selected Movie & Article Links
Below are links to a sampling of our best, most interesting, infuriating, or just plain funny movies, articles, and essays. Selections for this list are entirely arbitrary. Feel free to make suggestions! N.B., The-Ave.US has over 20,000 postings, so this isn’t an index. ANIMATED VIDEOS Carpark[...]
Where the PHUK is Iran?
AXIOS reports that a recent survery found that only 23% of Americans know where iran is on a map. THE-Ave offers this map to help. We have added a shadow showing the range of the impressive missiles used by Iran in the January 8 strike to retaliated for what Iranians see as the US martyrdom [&hell[...]
January 15th, 2020 - 12:48 am § in Saudi Arabia
Be Afraid, VERY AFRAID
Trump talks progressing with Saudis on nuclear program As Rick Perry resigns as Secretary of Defense, he is leaving a frightening legacy ..A Saudi bomb. Perry has been named as one of Trump’s goons in the effort to undermine the ability of Ukraine to defend itself from Russia, now he is doing [...]
January 6th, 2020 - 2:46 pm § in Saudi Arabia, The Ave Scene
Fox News Applauds Assasination of Solemeini
Soleimani’s killing ignites Russia-vs.-Iran schism in Syria Hollie McKay of Fox News tries to explain why Solemeini’s death was justified. The death of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, at the orders of President Trump last week, not only has cast a murky shadow on the futur[...]
FAREED ZAKARIA: An objective analysis of what just happened
Fareed: The Soleimani Strike Was Trump’s Michael Corleone Moment “‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Michael Corleone’s lament in The Godfather Part III, about never being able to escape his family business of crime, could well be said about America’s entangl[...]
9.11.01 … Who Won?
I have a different take. Much of what happened that day was not the achievement of the Saudi terrorists (let be honest about who they were) but the result of the incompetence or malfeasance of GW Bush and his Rasputin, Dick Cheney. By Steve Schwartz, theaveeditor, 5/13/19 Bush and Cheney cannot be[...]