You may have heard the recent stories about former President George W. Bush’s new exhibit of paintings of world leaders. There’s been plenty of chatter about the former President picking up painting as a hobby since leaving office. While many may have…
Fox News climate change coverage is now 28% accurate, up from 7%
Posted on 8 April 2014 by dana1981 The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has just published an analysis of 2013 climate coverage by the three major American cable news networks. The report and data are available online, and the results are summarized…
Military Occupation as Bullying: The Palestinian Struggle for Dignity in Hebron
(By Johannes A. Makar) Eyewitness Hebron: Follow young Badr in his city of bullies This February, after crossing the Taba-Eliat border from Egypt, less than 36 hours before the deplorable bomb attack there, I arrived in Jerusalem. After spending a couple of days in the city, I hopped on the bus to Hebron from the […]
Save Bangladesh & you Save the World: Give Green Energy aid to Developing Nations of Global South
(By Paul Rogers) Recent examples of short-term climate disruption have done much to bring the overall issue of climate change up the political agenda. In responding to what will be one of the key challenges of the next decades – well beyond the 15-year lifetime of the post-2015 global development goals currently under discussion – […]
Russian Sanctions-Busting?: Putin’s bruited 500k b/d oil deal with Iran draws US Threats
Russia has rejected US criticism of a plan that has been floated to import 500,000 barrels a day of petroleum from Iran on a barter basis. The US Treasury Department has been instructed by Congress to place a financial blockade on Iran. The US has had that country kicked off major international bank exchanges, making […]
Colbert’s Send-up of O’Reilly on “Inequality” makes Bill Squawk
Colbert Report: Bill O’Reilly’s Defense of Inequality The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive Raw Story reports on O’Reilly’s hysterical response: Bill O’Reilly lashes out at ‘ideological fanatic’ Stephen Colbert and his fellow ‘believers’ (via Raw Story ) Fox News host Bill O’Reilly fired back at Comedy Central counterpart Stephen Colbert […]
#Notabugsplat: Artists erect a giant portrait of drone victim for pilots (+ Vice Video)
(By Eric Stoner) A portrait of a drone victim in Pakistan as seen from a drone. (notabugsplat.com) In a brilliant creative action, an art collective with the help of enthusiastic locals unfurled an enormous poster in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of a young girl who lost her parents and two younger siblings to a drone […]
Made Homeless by Israel, defiant Bedouin vow to stay in Jordan Valley
Homeless but defiant, Bedouin to stay in Jordan Valley (via AFP) Two weeks after their fragile tin shacks were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers, Atiya Bani Minna and his family are still sleeping under the stars, struggling to resume some semblance of normal life. For this 50-year-old Bedouin shepherd, it is the third… ——- Related […]
The Supreme Court’s Animal Farm (Editorial Cartoon)
(By Paul Jamiol) via Jamiol’s World
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