Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Israel Likud party under PM Benjamin Netanyahu had made Israel a rogue, pariah state even before […]
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Halloween Poetry: W. B. Yeats, “All Souls’ Night”
All Souls’ Night By W.B. Yeats Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bell And many a lesser bell sound through the room; And […]
Unprecedented Damage to Gaza & its People can’t be repaired with Just more Aid
By Sara Roy, Harvard University In the near three decades that I have been involved with Gaza and her people, I have never seen the […]
“Pilot Program” of Segregated Buses banning Palestinians in Israel
AJ+ “The defense minister [Moshe Ya’alon] … hasn’t issued a blanket ban but believes integrated buses are “a recipe for a terror attack.” So he’s […]
Afghanistan’s Women: After 13 Years of War, the Rule of Men, Not Law
By Ann Jones via Tomdispatch.com On September 29th, power in Afghanistan changed hands for the first time in 13 years. At the Arg, the presidential […]
Far Right Extremist Avigdor Lieberman says Swedish Recognition of Palestine will Strengthen Extremists
By Juan Cole There was a time when people like Avigdor Lieberman were not welcome in Israeli politics, or, indeed, in Jewish circles in the […]
This day in History: Madrid Arab-Israeli Peace Conference (a Process that Netanyahu later Boasted of Derailing)
The Madrid peace conference convened October 30, 1991, hosted by President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, aimed at initiating a peace […]
Jerusalem tensions over al-Aqsa Mosque turn bloody as Far Right-winger is Shot
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Right-wing Jewish activist Yehuda Glick was shot and injured at a rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, Israeli police and medical sources […]
GOP Voter Suppression: Comedian Louis Black says F#%! it!
ACLU “At a photo shoot with ACLU’s Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho, ACLU voting rights ambassador Lewis Black gets so f#%!in’ tired of politicians […]
The Kurdish 3rd Way: Democracy is “Radical” in Northern Syria
By Karlos Zurutuza (Inter Press Service) Garbage collection is among the many duties of the Democratic Self-Management in force in the three mainly Kurdish enclaves […]
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