Last month, North Korea conducted a nuclear test. How does the US respond: banning iPods (which are probably manufactured in China, which is alright by China since it is the biggest lender to the US war on Iraq).
The US is now targeting the lifestyle of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il and the families of his […]

An excerpt from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel “Haunted” that I found quite telling of the human condition…

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To be fair…this is one WMD that hurts like hell.

NY Times video of Saddam testing out WMDs like Molotov Cocktails and something that looks like an AB exercise device that I swear I’ve seen on late night infomercials.

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A follow up to the post: “How To Get a Girlfriend in Amman”
I think I’m in love…

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Bush isn’t the only one in town this week. If you’re in Amman, be on the lookout for famous news anchors and journalists covering the Bush-al-Maliki summit including CBS’s Katie Couric, ABC’s Charles Gibson, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Fox News’ Shepard Smith. [source]
Good luck with the traffic!

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While sectarian violence is at a high point in Iraq, fueled by many elements that have caused the death of about 120 people a day, everyone seems to be engulfed in the terminology. Is it a civil war? Should it be called a civil war? Does admitting it’s a civil war frame it as a […]

The national campaign to make Petra one of the new seven “Wonders of the World” has reached my email inbox lately. As I am not in Jordan I was surprised to see that the cell phone service providers such as Fastlink, Mobilecom and Umniah are in on the campaign as well (although their respective websites […]

The news world seems a bit abuzz with HM King Abdullah’s reference to the possibility of three civil wars emerging in the region, yesterday on “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. I find it a bit odd since the international media is treating this like the King has just discovered a problem no one knew about […]