South Africa has downgraded its embassy to Israel, the first phase in reducing diplomatic relations between the two countries at the request of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party. In this first phase, South Africa’s formerly full-service embassy in Tel Aviv has been downgraded to a liaison office, a diplomatic mission with limited […]
Archives for April 2019
Gen. Hiftar’s Drive to Take all of Libya Raises Atrocity Concerns
Hiftar’s Forces, Rival Militias Have History of Abuses
Spirituality without Prophets: Ibn Tufayl and the story of the feral child of philosophy
Hayy concludes that persuading people away from their ‘natural’ stations would only corrupt them further.
Why Designating the Iranian Rev. Guards Terrorists would paint a big Red Target On US Troops in Iraq
The notion is illogical because the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a state actor, not a non-state actor.
Florida PL’s Huge Solar Battery will make as much Electricity as half a Nuclear Plant
The batteries are now so cheap that it would actually save utilities money if they used them with solar farms compared to just going on on running old coal plants
Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs
If pushed far enough, global systems can evidently collapse into a death-spiral
Why the Palestinians’ Gaza Protests Won’t Stop
Despite Carnage, Palestinians Continue to Demand Their Rights
Israel demolishes al-Araqib Bedouin village for 142nd time
Like the 34 other Bedouin villages “unrecognized” by Israel, al-Araqib does not receive any services from the Israeli government
Congress Slaps down Trump-Saudi War on Yemen
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The House of Representatives voted Thursday 247 to 175 to end the US involvement in supporting the Saudi-led war effort in Yemen. 16 Republicans voted with the Democratic majority. The Senate had already passed the act, invoking the War Powers act for the first time since it was enacted in […]
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