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US Sec. of State Blinken Offers some Anesthesia while Palestinians are Operated on by Far-Right Israeli Gov't

US Sec. of State Blinken Offers some Anesthesia while Palestinians are Operated on by Far-Right Israeli Gov’t

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, and offered condolences on the “innocent Palestinians” killed by Israeli security forces or squatters on Palestinian land in the last year –though he did not specify a number and did not name a […]

Corruption
Corruption: Supreme Court Justices party at $25,000-a-head Soirees with Corporations that have cases before the Court

Corruption: Supreme Court Justices party at $25,000-a-head Soirees with Corporations that have cases before the Court

OtherWords

By Jim Hightower | – ( Otherwords.org) – As many of its own members privately admit, Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino — closed to commoners, but offering full-service access to corporate powers. But there’s another government entity that’s even more aloof from workaday people: the Supreme Court. And it has become a handmaiden […]

Arctic
‘Blue marble’: how half a Century of Climate Change has altered the Face of the Earth

‘Blue marble’: how half a Century of Climate Change has altered the Face of the Earth

The Conversation

By Robert Poole, University of Central Lancashire; Nick Pepin, University of Portsmouth, and Oliver Gruner, University of Portsmouth | – In December 1972, Nasa’s final Apollo mission (Apollo 17) took the iconic “Blue Marble” photo of the whole Earth. Many, including science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, had expected that the sight of Earth from […]

National Security State
Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?  Cutting the Pentagon Budget in Half Would Finally Force the Generals to Think

Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed? Cutting the Pentagon Budget in Half Would Finally Force the Generals to Think

William J. Astore

By William J. Astore | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex (MIC). Sure, I hung up my military uniform for the last time in 2005. Since 2007, I’ve been writing articles for TomDispatch focused largely on critiquing that same MIC and America’s […]

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