Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Threats to al-Sahwa

Brian noted yesterday that we have been neglecting the south and southern issues here at Waq al-waq and he is right, but that is not the only thing we have been neglecting in our scatter-shot approach to the news. We have also been neglecting the Huthi conflict (not that we haven’t read stuff about it, just that we haven’t posted on it.)

Here is this News Yemen piece on threats to the editor of al-Sahwa.net, Muhammad al-‘Alwani, who received a threatening phone call from someone claiming to be from the PSO.

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The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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The Past

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Laurie Santos

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