(By Juan Cole) It is shameful that Vice President Joe Biden should be attending the funeral of Ariel Sharon today, given that the former Israeli prime minister was clearly guilty of a host of war crimes. Much Mideast instability must be laid at his feet. Since a pattern of war crimes comes to equate to […]
Month
Category
- Africa (239)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (1,227)
- Australasia (9)
- Australia (25)
- Authoritarianism (384)
- Canada (7)
- Cats (1)
- Celtic Religion (1)
- Culture (521)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (326)
- Dissent (434)
- Ecology (1)
- Economy (1,031)
- Agriculture (3)
- Banking (67)
- Carbon Footprint (6)
- Corporations (50)
- Cryptocurrency (2)
- Debt (21)
- Degrowth (1)
- Democratic Socialism (20)
- Demographic Decline (1)
- Development (26)
- Downward Mobility (1)
- Employment (118)
- Food Insecurity (21)
- Homelessness (15)
- Industry (5)
- Inequality (423)
- Inflation (5)
- infrastructure (10)
- Insurance (1)
- Investment (92)
- Market Crash (10)
- Middle Class (61)
- Monopolies (8)
- Neoliberalism (202)
- Plutocracy (618)
- Poverty (206)
- Regulation (3)
- Sanctions (4)
- Taxes (37)
- Technology (3)
- Trade (114)
- Weapons sales (7)
- Education (157)
- Elderly (3)
- Electricity Cost (2)
- Energy (1,710)
- Batteries (50)
- Coal (139)
- Fossil Fuels (324)
- Fracking (50)
- Geothermal (7)
- Green ammonia (5)
- Green Energy (409)
- Green Hydrogen (8)
- Heat Pumps (6)
- Hydroelectric (15)
- Natural Gas (107)
- Nuclear Energy (157)
- Petroleum (299)
- Power Grid (12)
- Pumped Hydro (6)
- Solar Energy (403)
- Tar Sands (13)
- Wave Energy (9)
- wind energy (336)
- Environment (2,631)
- Climate Change (1,555)
- Acidification of Oceans (54)
- Agriculture (26)
- Biodiversity (12)
- Climate Refugees (2)
- CO2 (121)
- Dehydration (5)
- Denialism (147)
- Desalinization (4)
- Desertification (158)
- Divestment (2)
- Dust Storms (6)
- Environmental Investment (1)
- Extreme Weather (296)
- Flooding (137)
- Food Supply (2)
- Forests (18)
- Green New Deal (40)
- Greenwashing (3)
- Mass Extinction (61)
- Methane (20)
- Net Carbon Zerio (8)
- Nitrous Oxide (2)
- Rainforests (19)
- Rivers (11)
- Sea Level (335)
- Soil Carbon Release (14)
- Super Storms (258)
- wildfires (237)
- Wood Buildings (1)
- Climate Crisis (1,278)
- Drought (294)
- Ecology (10)
- Environmentalism (392)
- Green Transportation (251)
- Ice Melt (133)
- Invasive Species (2)
- Islands (1)
- Oceans (101)
- Oil Spills (7)
- Pollution (229)
- Water (94)
- wildlife (19)
- Climate Change (1,555)
- Europe (1,347)
- Featured (3,969)
- fiction (5)
- Food (14)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Health (674)
- History (347)
- Human Rights (1,453)
- Apartheid (263)
- censorship (297)
- Death Penalty (30)
- Disappeared (3)
- Displaced and Refugees (575)
- Food Insecurity (25)
- Gay rights (29)
- Genocide (53)
- Human Rights Watch (90)
- Migrants (4)
- Slavery and Trafficking (16)
- Starvation (4)
- Torture (98)
- Trans Rights (3)
- Transgender Rights (4)
- Unlawful Imprisonment (102)
- Unlwful Killing (78)
- War Crimes (398)
- War Rape (7)
- Immigration (20)
- International (803)
- Islamophobia (376)
- Juan Cole (270)
- Latin America (99)
- Latinos (4)
- leisure (21)
- media (474)
- Middle East (9,470)
- Arab World (5,177)
- Iran (1,302)
- Israel (905)
- Israel/ Palestine (3,237)
- Israel/Palestine (9)
- Kurds (289)
- Turkey (579)
- Turkiye (105)
- military (125)
- Modernism (3)
- nationalism (116)
- NATO (37)
- Natural Disasters (13)
- Neocolonialism (1)
- nuclear weapons (105)
- Patriarchy (10)
- Peace (137)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Pete Buttigieg (1)
- Planetary Exploration (1)
- Popular Culture (24)
- Poverty (12)
- privacy (21)
- racism (464)
- Rape (8)
- religion (1,478)
- Rights (141)
- robots (3)
- Romance (1)
- science (154)
- Secular (West) (9)
- Secularism (30)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (2)
- Spirituality (22)
- Statelessness (15)
- Stranded Assets (1)
- Surveillance (279)
- Terrorism (1,092)
- Tolerance (6)
- Uncategorized (8,078)
- United Nations (150)
- Urbanization (4)
- US Foreign Policy (1,318)
- US politics (5,290)
- Anti-War Movement (13)
- Campaign Finance (31)
- Censors (22)
- Central Intelligence Agency (63)
- Charity (1)
- Civil Rights (96)
- Congress (78)
- Conspiracy Theories (23)
- Constitution (399)
- Courts (15)
- crime (12)
- Democratic Party (956)
- Democratic Socialists of America (22)
- Domestic Terrorism (20)
- Drone Warfare (27)
- Espionage (124)
- Ethnicities (382)
- Far Right (389)
- FBI (47)
- Foreign Policy (204)
- Gay Rights (17)
- Guns (95)
- Immigration (236)
- Israel Lobbies (129)
- Marijuana (4)
- Militarization (272)
- National Security State (473)
- Native Americans (40)
- Nuclear arsenal (7)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (562)
- Police (43)
- prison reform (9)
- Private Prisons (2)
- Progressive Politics (12)
- Puerto Rico (30)
- Religious Right (15)
- Reproductive Choice (66)
- Republican Party (2,947)
- Supreme Court (133)
- Voter suppression (36)
- Whistleblowers (7)
- Xenophobia (9)
- Veterans (35)
- Voting Rights (16)
- War (509)
- White Supremacists (228)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (554)
- workers (231)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (212)
South Africa
Israel’s District 9: Its Biggest Ethnic Cleansing since 1948
30,000 Palestinian-Israelis of Bedouin heritage are are being forcibly transferred by the Israeli government, and thousands of acres of their land is being stolen from them. The 972 article compares it to Apartheid South Africa’s District 6, the inspiration for the film, “District 9” The Palestinian-Israelis are mounting big protests today. Aljazeera English reports Amjad […]