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US sent CIA Director as Ambassador to Tehran after CIA overthrew Iran’s Democratic gov’t (US now Complaining about Hostage-Taker Amb.)
The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran’s designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran […]
Using Ukraine as a Pretext for more Climate Disruption (Naomi Klein)
(By Naomi Klein) Published in The Guardian The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so […]
Dropbox putting NSA Spying advocate Condi Rice on its board Shocks Privacy Advocates
YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined the board of Dropbox has set tongues a-wagging in the IT sector. The company said Ms Rice be involved in securing a foothold in international territories, particularly…
Standing on the Titanic: Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook
(By Kholoud Ramzi, Baghdad, for Niqash) Election posters have become a joke to cynical Iraqi voters. Election campaign posters are telling cynical Iraqi voters nothing […]
If Jesus had a wife, would it change the GOP War on Women?
(By Juan Cole) A Coptic fragmentary manuscript page that dates back to a few hundred years after Jesus’ death (and the text of which may […]
Turkish schools abroad victims of AKP-Gulen conflict
The struggle between the AKP and the Gulen movement threatens more than 2,000 Turkish schools abroad, which have been seen as the country’s most “valuable […]
Tutu: Climate Crisis Demands we Boycott Big Oil just as we Boycotted Apartheid
(By Jon Queally) Nobel laureate says ‘people of conscience’ must break ties with oil and gas companies that are destroying planet’s future. Archbishop of South […]
CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames
This could be the single event that our grandchildren — well, the privileged ones who know how to read and have access to e-books and such — will know as the straw that broke the left wing’s back. No less of a historian than Rush Limbaugh declared…
Jazz legend John McLaughlin Plays Ramallah, Palestine to counteract Palestinian “Isolation”
Jazz guitar legend John McLaughlin plays for Palestine (via AFP) The Palestinian territories are rarely a destination for jazz musicians let alone stars of an […]
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