Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on President Obama’s renewed push to close the illegal Guantanamo prison camp. Limbo Update America wanted to believe Barack Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo, but the skeptical country had been hurt before. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
Syria’s Neighbors have Rising Anxiety about Crisis (Three Aljazeera Videos)
Turkey is strategizing how to limit the impact of the Syria war on Turkey. Ankara is particularly concerned by the emergence of a relatively autonomous Kurdish area in northern Syria, fearing that PKK guerrillas might find refuge there. Turkey is also deeply worried about chemical weapons falling into hands of various sorts of guerrillas. Turkey […]
Bad Camel
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Our Terror: US Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, April 2013:
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism surveys US covert drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen for April, 2013 Pakistan April 2013 actions The US launched two strikes on Pakistan, killing at least eight. CIA drones have attacked Pakistan’s tribal areas twice every month since January, when six strikes killed 27 people. A strike on April 14 […]
The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World
Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal — and in parts of the US such as the Southwest, solar is at grid parity. That means it is as inexpensive to build a solar plant as […]
Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)
Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com: More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific atoll was branded “the most contaminated place in the world.” As their cancers […]
Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria
After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. They were wrong, and weren’t listening. Obama said we don’t know who used the chemical weapons or to what extent. That isn’t building a case for intervention, it is knocking […]
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession
Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between Israel and the Palestinians are acceptable, with small land swaps. This position would have been important if there were a peace process, since many Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West […]
After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)
As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as the products they make. Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Reports: The CBC reports: “Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a […]
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