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Iran Publicly Accuses US Government of Orchestrating Bombing That Targeted and Killed Scores of Afghan Children

Eric Striker • May 10, 2021

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85 people were killed and 147 injured -- mostly children -- in a ruthless bombing of the Sayed Al-Shuhada school in Kabul. The school formally educates girls. The attackers were targeting the Hazara population, which is part of Afghanistan's Shia Muslim minority. The latest bloodshed threatens to plunge Afghanistan into a sectarian conflict as the... Read More

Lawsuit: FBI Thugs Used Surveillance Tools to Subject An Innocent Man and His Family to Years of Harassment, Threats and Intimidation

Eric Striker • April 6, 2021

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The Michigan ACLU filed a civil rights complaint today on behalf of a Lebanese-American family man who, in spite of not being suspected of any wrongdoing, was subjected to years of sustained abuse at the hands of the FBI. In Chebli v. Kable, et al, Ahmad Chebli is suing Charles Kable of the Terrorist Screening... Read More

The Government Shouldn’t Feel Vindicated Over the Begum Verdict

Patrick Cockburn • February 26, 2021

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A former Isis fighter once complained to me that western volunteers who travelled to the so-called Islamic State in northeastern Syria were a burden because they did not speak Arabic, had no military experience, knew little about Islam and had often come because they were bored or unhappy at home. He said that their main... Read More

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The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror

C.J. Hopkins • February 8, 2021

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If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you’re going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It’s just like the original Global War on Terror, except that this time the “Terrorists” are all “Domestic Violent Extremists” (“DVEs”), “Homegrown Violent Extremists” (“HVEs”), “Violent Conspiracy-Theorist Extremists” (“VCTEs”), “Violent Reality Denialist Extremists” (VRDEs”), “Insurrectionary Micro-Aggressionist Extremists”... Read More

No, It's Not Too Early to Criticize Joe Biden

Ted Rall • February 5, 2021

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Censorship in mainstream corporate American media outlets is subtle. It's not so much that they spin the truth. It's that they omit pertinent facts and exclude relevant points of view. So it is with politics. Among the tools available to messaging and framing experts is "flooding the field" — dominating the news with a blizzard... Read More

State Sponsored Assassinations Are the New Norm – It Is Gangsterism

Patrick Cockburn • December 4, 2020

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I was in Israel on 4 November 1995 when a student named Yigal Amir assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv. A video shows Amir loitering by an exit to the square for 40 minutes before Rabin appears, when his killer takes out a pistol and... Read More

A Killing in Iran: Who Gains from Yet Another Assassination?

Philip Giraldi • December 3, 2020

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It is not often that one can agree with the pronouncements made by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, but his tweeted comment on the killing of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh suggesting that the incident “…was a criminal act & highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict.... Read More

Does Christ Hate Iran?

E. Michael Jones • November 13, 2020

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After playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s blockbuster film The Passion of the Christ, actor Jim Caviezel became the poster boy for Catholics who wanted to use the film to share their faith. Playing that role also got Caviezel blacklisted from Hollywood films. In 2011, Caviezel told First Baptist Church in Orlando, Florida that he had... Read More

Cui Bono from the Situation in France

The Saker • October 29, 2020

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I won’t even bother repeating it all here, those who are interested in my views of this entire Charlie Hebdo canard can read my article “I am NOT Charlie” here: No, what I want to do is to ask a simple question: do you think the French leaders are simply stupid, suicidal or naive? I... Read More

Horror in Beirut

Was it an accident or a warning?

Philip Giraldi • August 11, 2020

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The Establishment explanation for what occurred in Beirut’s port on August 5th is that the horrific series of explosions that killed hundreds, injured thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless was a terrible accident that came about due to a multi-faceted failure by Lebanon’s corrupt and incompetent government. Or at least that is the prevalent... Read More

Who Profits from the Beirut Blast?

Making the case that the explosion resulted from an attack

Pepe Escobar • August 7, 2020

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The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption may have been fully exploited, via sabotage, to engineer it. Lebanon is prime John Le... Read More

The US, Israel and Beirutshima

Taxi • August 6, 2020

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Wherever there is mass murder in the Middle East, there you find the Israeli fingerprint. And it was always forever thus. Time and time again, since 1948, Israel has demonstrated that it solves all its regional problems with violent terroristic solutions that change the political and geostrategic equation in its favor. Time and time again,... Read More

Boston Marathon Bombing Death Sentence Vacated by Federal Court of Appeals

Paul Craig Roberts • July 31, 2020

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Today the Federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated the death sentence concocted for one of the alleged bombers of the alleged Boston Marathon bombing of April, 2013, seven years ago. Some years ago John Remington Graham and I demonstrated conclusively that the FBI’s own evidence proved conclusively that, even if there really... Read More

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War Crimes and War Criminals: Who Will be Held Accountable?

Philip Giraldi • July 23, 2020

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There is something unique about how the United States manipulates the “terrorism” label to avoid being accused of carrying out war crimes. When an indigenous militia or an armed insurgency like the Taliban in a country like Iraq or Afghanistan attacks American soldiers subsequent to a U.S. invasion which overthrew the country’s government, it is... Read More

Incompetence Links Britain’s Recent Wars and Its Coronavirus Response

Patrick Cockburn • June 26, 2020

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The government’s controversial Prevent programme aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists, but it would be much more effective if it taught British political leaders not to engage in wars that become the seed-beds of terrorism. Consider the case of Khairi Saadallah, the suspect in the killing of three people in a park in Reading who... Read More

Buying Punishment for “Terrorists”: Washington’s Reward Program Is Largely Ineffective

Philip Giraldi • April 15, 2020

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Many people worldwide are aware of the fact that the United States government offers cash rewards to informants who provide information on individuals and groups that it chooses to define as terrorists. The program is referred to as the Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ). It was established in 1984 as part of the Act to... Read More

Victim of Anti-Fascist Terrorism Mikis Mantakas Commemorated by Italian Deputy Speaker

Eric Striker • March 2, 2020

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Last week marked the 45th anniversary of the shooting of Mikis Mantakas, a 23-year-old Greek who studied medicine in Rome and engaged in activism with the Italian Social Movement (MSI). The MSI, which campaigned as the successor of the socialist and nationalist ideals of the Italian Social Republic (RSI), was a force to reckon with... Read More

After Pensacola (And Pearl Harbor): How Ruling Class Sent Fort Hood Shooting Down the Memory Hole?

John Derbyshire • December 15, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com Here’s an anniversary that, even after the Pensacola (and Pearl Harbor) shootings, doesn’t seem to have been mentioned in the Main Stream Media: the Fort Hood massacre, which occurred just over ten years ago, on November 5th, 2009. In that incident a crazy Muslim, Army... Read More

Cuckmongers Hall and the London Bridge Massacre—I Don’t Want U.S. to End Up Like This

John Derbyshire • December 8, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com The latest terrorist killings in London got me reading up on Fishmongers' Hall. I'll confess I knew next to nothing about the place, in spite of having been born and raised in England and lived five years in London. The hall existed in my mind,... Read More

Fight Another 'Terror War' Against Drug Cartels? There's a Better Way!

Ron Paul • December 2, 2019

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The 50-year US war on drugs has been a total failure, with hundreds of billions of dollars flushed down the drain and our civil liberties whittled away fighting a war that cannot be won. The 20 year “war on terror” has likewise been a gigantic US government disaster: hundreds of billions wasted, civil liberties scorched,... Read More

Germany: Halle Synagogue Goers Laugh and Cheer After Two Gentiles Shot Dead

Eric Striker • October 9, 2019

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The wire service Reuters, whose editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler is Jewish, is disseminating through the controlled airwaves a narrative that German-Jews are now living in "fear" in the wake of a shooting in the eastern German city of Halle. The dispatch quotes members of the Jewish community in Germany claiming that the moderate criticisms of... Read More

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Again, The West Tries to Destroy China, Using Religion and Terror

Andre Vltchek • July 23, 2019

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They are everywhere, where their Western, Gulf states and Turkish handlers want them to be. Their combat as well as political cells and units are based in Syria and Indonesia, in Turkey and occasionally in Egypt. When they are told to kill, they murder with unimaginable brutality; decapitating, or cutting to pieces priests, infants, old... Read More

Outrage Grows at Spanish Media Silence on State Complicity in Barcelona Attack

Alejandro López • July 22, 2019

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The media silence on online newspaper Público’s revelations that Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) intensively followed the Islamic State (IS) terror cell until the day of the Barcelona attacks in August 2017 is provoking growing outrage in Spain. Público’s report provides evidence of criminal behavior at top levels of the Spanish state. It directly contradicts... Read More

Hurricane Barry Proves Terrorist Threat Is A Hoax

Paul Craig Roberts • July 13, 2019

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What Hurricane Barry tells us as it floods an already flooded New Orleans is that the “terrorist threat” that the US allegedly faces is a hoax. What do I mean? Think about it this way. Terrorists, if such exist, have had ample warning about New Orleans’ precarious position with the swollen Mississippi river in flood... Read More

Why Shouldn’t the Boston Marathon Bomber Vote? U.S. Politicians Radicalized Him

Max Parry • May 14, 2019

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Last month, 2020 U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders stirred controversy at a CNN town hall after answering a loaded question about whether his position on extending voting rights to incarcerated felons barred any exceptions such as the Boston Marathon bomber currently on death row. It was impossible for Sanders to respond honestly without being entrapped... Read More

We Can Finish ISIS - But Only if the West Winds Down Its Proxy Wars

Patrick Cockburn • April 26, 2019

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Western governments have been swift to pledge action to strike at Isis, as it becomes clear that the organisation was behind the suicide bombings that killed 253 people in Sri Lanka. A video released by Isis after the attacks shows Zahran Hashim, an Islamic preacher and alleged leader of the bombers, pledging allegiance together with... Read More

Simultaneous Notre Dame/al-Aqsa Fires: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Sri Lankan Massacre Part of the Same Terror Campaign?

Kevin Barrett • April 23, 2019

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In 1988 and 1989 I lived in the heart of Paris, on Boulevard Henri IV just a few minutes’ walk from the Notre Dame cathedral—the best known and most-visited Catholic monument this side of St. Peter’s Square. Dedicated to the Holy Virgin Mary, beloved by both Christians and Muslims, Notre Dame is a product and... Read More

The “March for Love” in Auckland on March 23

New Zealand: the Criminalization of Dissent

Kerry Bolton • March 27, 2019

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New Zealand is in a state of mass hysteria in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings, which even a few mainstream media pundits are starting to question, and some are calling for calm reason. A few honest liberals are also questioning the demand for the introduction of “hate speech laws.” Hypocrisy and unreason have... Read More

Forget Jussie Smollet, Here Are the Real False Flags

Kevin Barrett • February 24, 2019

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The world slipped closer to nuclear war. Big false flags—actual, suspected, and anticipated—were a key factor. But hardly anybody noticed. Everyone was riveted by the story of actor Jussie Smollet, who supposedly paid a couple of Nigerian-American bodybuilders for a staged racist-homophobic near-lynching. The ostensible motive: Add a zero to Smollet’s pathetic little million-a-year salary.... Read More

The Latest Bomb Scare

Paul Craig Roberts • October 27, 2018

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I appreciate readers’ confidence that I can explain the mail bomb scare that has been blamed on Cesar Sayoc. I have not followed this story and regret that I don’t have an explanation to provide. Stephen Lendman raises the question whether Sayoc is a real culprit or a patsy for an operation orhestrated for political... Read More

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot • September 10, 2018

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Thanks to courageous investigators, many anomalies in the official explanation of the events of 9/11 were posted on the Internet in the following months, providing evidence that this was a false flag operation, and that Osama bin Laden was innocent, as he repeatedly declared in the Afghan and Pakistani press and on Al Jazeera.[1] The... Read More

Duck-and-Cover America

Advice to College Graduates in the Age of Trump

Tom Engelhardt • May 31, 2018

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Class of 2018, I’ve always been told that a joke’s a good way to launch any talk. It’s a matter of breaking the ice, though on your graduation day, with the temperature soaring into the upper eighties, that may not be the perfect image. Still, you know what I mean: an attempt to lighten the... Read More

MEK’s Money Sure Can’t Buy Love

But it can buy a lot of politicians

Philip Giraldi • May 29, 2018

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Iran’s radical Marxist cult Mohajedeen e Khalq, better known by its acronym MEK, is somewhat reminiscent of the Israel Lobby’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in that it operates somewhat in the shadows and is nevertheless able to punch well beyond its weight by manipulating politicians and understanding how American government functions on its... Read More

Narco-Corruption, ISIS 3.0, and the Terror Drone Attack That Never Happened

Pentagon Documents Detail Dystopian Dangers

Nick Turse • May 29, 2018

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For almost 20 years, U.S. drone warfare was largely one-sided. Unlike Afghans and Yemenis, Iraqis and Somalis, Americans never had to worry about lethal robots hovering overhead and raining down missiles. Until, that is, one appeared in the skies above Florida. But that’s a story for later. For now, let’s focus on a 2017 executive... Read More

The Manchester Bomber Was Enabled by the British Government

Patrick Cockburn • May 26, 2018

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The culpability of the British government and its intelligence agencies in enabling suicide bomber Salman Abedi to blow himself up at a pop concert in Manchester is being masked one year later by the mood of grief and mourning over the death and injury of so many people. It is heartrending to hear injured children... Read More

The Caliphate of Trump

And a Planet in Ruins

Tom Engelhardt • May 8, 2018

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They are the extremists. If you need proof, look no further than the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the latest wave of suicide bombings has proven devastating. Recently, for instance, a fanatic set off his explosives among a group of citizens lining up outside a government office to register to vote in upcoming elections. At least... Read More

Isis-Inspired Terrorism Gives Impression It's a Global Force. It's Not

Patrick Cockburn • March 23, 2018

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The killing of three people in the south of France by a man claiming allegiance to Isis will make people doubt if this murderous cult is as dead as governments had announced and people had hoped. The answer is that the attack in the Carcassonne region by a single gunman, said to be a Moroccan... Read More

Proposed ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Law Targets White Advocates

Gregory Hood • February 25, 2018

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Writing about the establishment of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1820, “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind, for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat... Read More

Here We Go Again

Andrew Napolitano • December 14, 2017

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For the second time in two months, someone who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State has plotted to kill innocents in New York City and has executed his plot. According to police, at the height of the Monday morning rush hour this week, in an underground pedestrian walkway that I have used many times,... Read More

Is North Korea Really a 'State Sponsor of Terrorism'?

Ron Paul • November 27, 2017

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President Trump announced last week that he was returning North Korea to the US list of “state sponsors of terrorism” after having been off the list for the past nine years. Americans may wonder what dramatic event led the US president to re-designate North Korea as a terrorism-sponsoring nation. Has Pyongyang been found guilty of... Read More

Danny Sjursen: Putting the "War" in the "War on Terror"

Tom Engelhardt • November 26, 2017

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Consider the latest news from America's war zones, still spreading across the Greater Middle East and Africa. The U.S. military is now reportedly building up its troop strength (mostly Special Operations forces) in Somalia. Their number has already doubled, reaching 500, while U.S. airstrikes are increasing against al-Shabab, the well-entrenched Islamist terror outfit in that... Read More

What If?

An Alternative Strategy for 9/12/2001

Danny Sjursen • November 26, 2017

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You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes in the past than to say what you would have done. My conservative father was the first to ask me... Read More

Iraq Says It Has Infiltrated Isis's Network of 'Sleeper Cells'

Patrick Cockburn • November 17, 2017

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Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as Isis loses its base areas and its bombing attacks are thwarted by informers and double agents. A senior Iraqi security official says that intelligence about potential Isis attacks has improved to the point that government forces can... Read More

Federal Appeals Court Agrees to Accept Evidence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Innocence

Paul Craig Roberts • November 13, 2017

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On October 26 attorney John Remington Graham explained on this website why he suspects that the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surving brother of the alleged Boston Marathon bombing, is a case of judicial murder. He wrote: “As a last hurrah as a lawyer, I recently filed a motion in behalf of three American citizens... Read More

I Don't HATE Muslims—I'm PRUDENT About Them. There’s A Difference.

John Derbyshire • November 4, 2017

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On the campaign trail coming up to the 2012 election, Republican hopeful Herman Cain confessed to not knowing who was the president of, quote, “Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan.” I had a soft spot for Cain, although in retrospect it was probably just solidarity with a fellow 1945 baby and math geek, and desperation at the awfulness of the... Read More

A Muslim Ban Is Logical, Moral, Even Libertarian

Ilana Mercer • November 2, 2017

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CNN’s Jake Tapper wanted to know if there was anything that could have prevented the murderous rampage, in Manhattan, by a Muslim immigrant, who had been recruited to live in America for no good reason. Once upon a time that was known as a rhetorical question. To ask the question would have been to answer... Read More

The Ever More Orwellian Definition of Terrorism

C.J. Hopkins • October 6, 2017

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In terms of twisting the English language into a ludicrous Orwellian mockery of itself in order to short circuit critical thinking, this has been a particularly good week. My favorite part so far has been the part where respectable leftists writers have been arguing that the already arbitrary application of the label “terrorist” should now... Read More

Stop Shopping Until You Drop. or, Until A Terrorist Drops You

Ilana Mercer • September 22, 2017

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"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist, "tweeted President Trump. "These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard." Prime Minister Theresa May and the mad media fumed over the president's insinuation that the Parsons Green "bucket bomber" was a "Known Wolf," and not a lone wolf. But Donald... Read More

Isis Is Stepping Up Its Atrocities to Counterbalance Its Defeat

Patrick Cockburn • September 16, 2017

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Isis is the most likely inspiration for the bomb explosion on the tube train at Parsons Green station. The attempted mass killing is similar to the attacks in Barcelona, Manchester and London earlier this year in that it aimed to murder the maximum number of civilians in the most public way possible. Isis is stepping... Read More

Empire Idiots

Linh Dinh • September 9, 2017

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In Catalonia, there’s a summer drink that combines beer with lemon soda. In Barcelona, it’s called “clara.” Further South, it’s dubbed, most charmingly, a “champu,” as in Head and Shoulders. Champu is quite good at eliminating the dandruff inside your skull. It is late summer, and I’m in Cambrils, drinking my second champu in Hawaii,... Read More

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