With elections approaching, Republicans want voters to believe Joe Biden is. But that’s ridiculous on its face. President don’t set pump prices. While they often get blamed for high gas prices, they have no control over them. Pump prices result from market forces of supply and demand. Oi[...]
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Featuring news and commentary from a reasoning perspective To return to the Front Page, click on “Blog” in upper left corner This website includes news summaries, essays and commentary, videos and short movies, and offbeat and whimsical humor. It adds background and perspective to news, with lin[...]
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
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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. Reporting broken links:[...]
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[...]
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[...]