Castro to Ahmadinejad: Stop slandering the Jews

The ailing former-leader of Cuba granted a rare interview to Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic in which he says peace will only come to the State of Israel when they disarm their nuclear stockpile. He also said that the Iranian government would better serve the cause of peace by acknowledging the "unique" history of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence. Castro then went on to discuss his first encounters with anti-Semitism as a young Cuban child...

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UN nuke agency says monitoring of Iran is hampered

In honor of Labor Day, attached is a link detailing the hard work being conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency to keep Iran's nuclear program transparent. Let's hope their hard work is not in vain...

Hidden Track cites "Joe Russo Can't Be Stopped" by Andrew Bruss

DaveO from Glide Magazine's Hidden Track recently posted a live stream of the Benevento/Russo Duo's performance of the Grateful Dead's, "Blues For Allah." In making note of the fact that Russo has recently been playing drums with Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, DaveO pointed out that Russo was none too pleased with some of the attention the Duo recieved after touring alongside Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of Phish.

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Think Hamas' attack's on West Bank settlers will be effective in thwarting peace talks?

David Makovsky of USA Today thinks you should think again...

The greatest American Rock band of our time?

I think so...