Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from […]
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Donald Sterling’s Illiberal Zionism Part of Racism Controversy with Magic Johnson
(By Juan Cole) Major political ideas and philosophies are complex and ambiguous, not straightforward. American conservatism is an alliance of economic conservatives and cultural conservatives. […]
NASA: West Antarctic ice sheet collapse now Inevitable, 10 ft Sea Rise Locked In
West Antarctic ice sheet collapse ‘unstoppable’, says NASA (via AFP) Ice is melting in the western Antarctic at an “unstoppable” pace, scientists said Monday, warning […]
When Greenwald met Snowden: “Spark a … movement against the dangers of state surveillance”
(By Glenn Greenwald via Tomdispatch) [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: […]
Yemeni anti-Al-Qaeda Campaign gains Popular Support but US Embassy forced to Close
(By Robert Sharp) As Yemen enters the post-National Dialogue Conference period, theory and practice are colliding; the constitutional referendum will take place in June followed […]
Operation American Spring aims to drive Obama from office this Friday
Operation American Spring promises to drive Obama from office this Friday (via Raw Story ) Self-styled revolutionary patriots plan to converge on Washington, D.C., this […]
The Real Egyptian Divide is between Tahrir Self-Government and Authoritarians of all Stripes
(By Haifaa G. Khalafallah) Revolutions or coups seeking to change modern Egypt, whether in 1919 or 1952, never challenged the familiar patterns of power relations, […]
Top 5 Signs that it is Rove who is Brain Dead, not Hillary
(By Juan Cole) Karl Rove was reported to have raised questions about Hillary Clinton’s mental well-being because of her fall in late 2012. He later […]
John Oliver: What if TV Climate Debates were 97 to 3 as in Real Science?
“John Oliver hosts a mathematically representative climate change debate, with the help of special guest Bill Nye the Science Guy, of course.” John Oliver LastWeekTonight: […]
Reich on Obama Walmart Photo-Op: “What numbskull arranged this?”
(By John Queally) A low-wage Walmart employee in California has a simple message for President Obama on behalf of the millions of workers who find […]
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