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Israelis demolish 1,000 Palestinian Homes in Negev Per Year
By IMEMC | – – The Israeli Interior Ministry and Land Administration Agency, in cooperation with the Regavim NGO and the Jewish National Fund (JNF), […]
Iran Talks Down to the Wire: Diplomatic Breakthrough or Prelude to War?
By Jasmin Ramsey | — WASHINGTON (IPS) – A final deal on Iran’s nuclear programme wouldn’t only make non-proliferation history. It would also be the […]
Top 6 Achievements of Obamacare: (Hint, millions more insured)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare) has beaten back all judicial challenges, it is […]
Why Boycotting Israel will Backfire, just as Netanyahu’s Blockade of Gaza Has
By Guy Laron | (Informed Comment) | – – Many people who support a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict believe that the Boycott, Divestment […]
As Kobane comes under ISIL attack, Kurds Encircle, cut off “caliphate”
By Amy Austin Holmes | (Informed Comment) | – – (Kobane, Syria) The liberation of Kobane in late January led to jubilant celebrations almost everywhere. […]
Journalists Pay the Price in Egypt’s Crackdown on Dissent
By Kitty Stapp | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – The Egyptian government is holding a record number of journalists in jail, a press freedom […]
Top Five ways for Washington to Fail in Iraq
By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In one form or another, the U.S. has been at war with Iraq since 1990, including […]
America’s Homegrown Extremists Twice as Deadly as Muslim Radicals
AJ+ | (Video report) | – “Homegrown groups with no connection to Islam have killed almost twice as many people as Muslim groups, according to […]
Humans Causing the Sixth Great Extinction of other Life Forms, on which we Depend
By Gerardo Ceballos | (The Conversation) | – – Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s. […]