Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]
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Video Shows Ethiopian-Israeli Soldier Beaten By Police – Violent Clashes In Tel Aviv
AJ+ | — “Clashes on the streets of Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian origin have taken to the streets after a video appeared […]
Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave
Wochit News / IRIN | – “Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a […]
Israeli soldier testimonies reveal ‘shoot to kill’ policy in Gaza war
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Testimonies from over 60 Israeli soldiers and officers who fought during last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip were released to the […]
Warren Buffett betting big on Wind Energy in Nebraska, & other Planet-Saving News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Wind power is on a roll in the US despite a fickle Congress and the machinations of Big […]
Black Lives Matter in Israel too: Protest against police violence
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | — Several thousand people, mostly hailing from Israel’s large Ethiopian population, took to the streets of Tel […]
Daesh in Mosul seeks Child Soldiers, Child Suicide-Bombers
By Khales Joumah | Mosul | (Niqash.org) – One of the latest inventions by the Islamic State in Mosul is the mobile pulpit. Most recently […]
“Bug Splat”: Body Counts, Drones, and “Collateral Damage”
Tom Englehardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – The Obama administration has adamantly refused to count. Not a body. In fact, for a long time, American officials […]
One in six species faces extinction as a result of climate change
By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – The Earth is on course to lose up to one in six of all its species, if […]
US Airstrike in Syria kills 53 Civilians, 6 Children
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) As Mariam Karouny reports for Reuters, the US air strike on Friday that inadvertently hit a village of non-combatants, […]