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Archives for June 2014

censorship
No Regime? Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef Cancelled b/c “Enormous Pressure”

No Regime? Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef Cancelled b/c “Enormous Pressure”

contributors

So, no regime then? Jon Stewart was on al-Barnamag [“The Program”] last year this time and remarked of the then Muslim Brotherhood government’s prosecution of his Egyptian counterpart, Bassem Youssef, for political libel of President Muhammad Morsi, “If your regime can’t handle a joke, you don’t have a regime.” AFP reports: Egypt satirist who mocked […]

Barack Obama
Faced w/ Global Warming Threat,  Obama fudges EPA Carbon Reduction

Faced w/ Global Warming Threat, Obama fudges EPA Carbon Reduction

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole President Obama’s decision to unleash the Environmental Protection Agency on US carbon dioxide emitters is a sea change in environmental policy and is extremely welcome to any who care about the planet. But its real significance does not lie in the targets for carbon dioxide reduction Obama has set. Those are way […]

astronomy and outer space
Global warming and the vulnerability of Greenland’s ice sheet

Global warming and the vulnerability of Greenland’s ice sheet

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journalism
#YesAllWomen Changes the Story  in Wake of Isla Vista Massacre

#YesAllWomen Changes the Story in Wake of Isla Vista Massacre

contributors

By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting […]

Republican Party
Top 15 Ways Republicans Have Screwed Our Soldiers and Veterans

Top 15 Ways Republicans Have Screwed Our Soldiers and Veterans

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Afghanistan
Dear GOP:  The US has negotiated with Terrorists  and Amnestied Them all through History

Dear GOP: The US has negotiated with Terrorists and Amnestied Them all through History

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole The GOP talking points in response to the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in a trade for five former officials of the 1990s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) focused on a few basic premises. !. You don’t negotiate with terrorists; 2. such a swap would encourage terrorists to capture Americans; 3. these […]

Apartheid
Now Palestinians must go to the Int’l Criminal Court, and US Should Back Them

Now Palestinians must go to the Int’l Criminal Court, and US Should Back Them

contributors

By Bill Van Esveld via Human Rights Watch Secretary of State John Kerry called the collapse of the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks “reality-check time” for the peace process. That reassessment should include the self-defeating U.S. policy of opposing steps toward justice and accountability in the name of negotiations.   U.S. officials claim that […]

Climate Change
Global Warming Threat:  Florida could be overwhelmed by Sudden Sea Rise

Global Warming Threat: Florida could be overwhelmed by Sudden Sea Rise

contributors

By Harold R. Wanless, University of Miami It is amazing for me to see the very aggressive building boom underway in south Florida; on the beaches and barrier islands, throughout downtown and in the low western areas bordering the Everglades. They are building like there is no tomorrow. Unfortunately, they are right. The US National […]

Afghanistan
US Drones hitting Civilian Homes, Killing non-Combatants

US Drones hitting Civilian Homes, Killing non-Combatants

contributors

By Alice K Ross and Jack Serle Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals. By way of contrast, since 2008, in neighbouring Afghanistan drone strikes on buildings have been banned in all […]

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