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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Press Freedom is the Issue, not Glenn Greenwald’s Personality
By Barry Eisler via Freedom of the Press Foundation: One of the most fascinating aspects of Glenn Greenwald’s journalism is the way it provokes various […]
Bush-Cheney Committed War Crimes: Terrorism Czar
Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! has an exclusive interview: ” Exclusive: Bush Committed War Crimes Says Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke” Excerpt: Amy Goodman: “Do you think […]
Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)
By Juan Cole NBC News’s Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel […]
Guatemala Town Threatens to Expel Jews
A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion. Click here for the rest […]
Maya Angelou: ‘Still I Rise’ (video)
Poet Maya Angelou dies at 86. Maya Angelou reads ‘Still I Rise’
Rapid climate changes deadlier than asteroid impacts in Earth’s past
Posted on 27 May 2014 by howardlee The link between rapid climate changes and mass extinctions has been strengthened in a recent paper by Jourdan et al in “Geology.” The authors demonstrate that the extraordinarily huge volcanic eruptions of the…
The NSA Effect: China tells its banks to remove IBM servers as Spyware
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has urged its banks to stop using servers built by IBM because it believes that they might be used for espionage. According to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg, the People’s Bank of China and the Chinese Ministry of Finance…
“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.”
“Joe the Plumber”: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.” (via The Political Carnival) “Joe the Plumber” (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following […]
Preying on the Weak: Like Big Tobacco, Big Oil Targets Developing Countries
By Michael T. Klare via Tomdispatch.com In the 1980s, encountering regulatory restrictions and public resistance to smoking in the United States, the giant tobacco companies […]
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