As-salamu alaykum in Islamic culture
is a common greeting. This translates literally to "Peace be upon you"
In Arabic it is written as ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ.

I can only bare a few seconds of Western controlled media before turning the tube off. It truly is an echo chamber with the same sentence construction and bullet points. Entire paragraphs cut and pasted right into their mouths.

Trump the warmonger lifts his ugly head and illegally bombs Iran following Israel's lead.

President Trump addressed the nation at 2200ET and said that with “massive precision strikes”, Iran’s nuclear facilities have “been completely and totally obliterated” in a “spectacular military success.” He warned Iran (“the bully of the Middle East”) that if they do not come to peace then there are many other targets: “There will be either peace; or tragedy for Iran worse than the likes of which we have seen over the last eight days.” “If peace does not come quickly,” we will go after the rest of the nation with “speed and skill. ” He ended the speech by saying “God bless The Middle East, Gold bless Israel, and God bless The United States.”

Afternoon folks!

There's a buncha blues for you this week. Starting out is an album from a fellow who should be better known having performed and made records with Otis Redding and Duane Allman (among others) - that would be Johnny Jenkins. After that is another not well-known blues guy, Zuzu Bollin from Texas. Following that is a later career album from Kansas City's Big Joe Turner. After that we've got some more or less acoustic blues from Ron Thompson and some uptown, sophisticated blues from Leon Redbone. Finishing up in the diversity department is some fine fiddlin' from Vassar Clements and friends.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

I want to share a link I spent 3 or 4 hours yesterday absorbing. It is about war. It is about the demise of the US Empire. It is about Trump's mental and physical decline, a Biden cover-up 2.0.

I read the info posted by b, not the comment thread, will get around to it today. https://www.moonofalabama.org/

The link b said was good is this one: Why Iran? The Context & The Consequences

My opinion of the best of the lot of videos in the Boyd article is this one: