Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between […]
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See
By Allan Christelow On the night of April 14-15 2014, militants from the group known as Boko Haram broke into the dormitory of a secondary […]
House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate
As explained earlier, due to pressure from the White House and NSA’s supporters in Congress, what could have been real NSA reform was completely changed at the last minute, in secret. The bill, which was substantially different than what both the Judiciary…
Shouldn’t the “1% Doctrine” Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?
(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of “information” from top figures in […]
Pope Francis to call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State from Bethlehem
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin is signaling that Pope Francis in his visit to Bethlehem on Sunday will strongly support the right of […]
Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians: “The World has visited many terrible things on” them, robbed of their Humanity
Anthony Bourdain: it is something we do all the time: “Show regular people doing everyday things–cooking and enjoying meals… It is a measure, I guess, […]
NASA’s Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor
Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat (via AFP) Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA’s launch pads and multi-billion dollar […]
Iran “Happy” Video Arrestees out on Bail but Pharrell Cover goes Viral
Iran frees ‘Happy’ video dancers on bail (via AFP) Six young Iranians arrested for dancing on rooftops to US singer Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy” in […]
Historian who Made History: Vincent Harding, Civil Rights Pioneer and King Confidant
(By Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence) Historian by profession and relentless nonviolent advocate by calling, Vincent Gordon Harding died on Monday, May 19, at the age […]
Top 5 Wars on Religious Extremism in Today’s Muslim World
The Fox News commentators who say that the Muslim world is not doing enough to police its own extremist movements don’t actually seem to be […]
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