Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he […]
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Climate Change: Who’s Campaigning Against Our Environment?
(By Todd Smekens) Climate Change: Who’s Campaigning Against Our Environment? (via www.muncievoice.com) MUNCIE, Indiana – The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued […]
America’s Post-9/11 Dystopia: No-Fly Lists, Secret Gov’t Databases and Guilty even if Proven Innocent
(By Peter van Buren) Rahinah Ibrahim is a slight Malaysian woman who attended Stanford University on a U.S. student visa, majoring in architecture. She was […]
Top Ten Ways in which it was Actually the Israeli Gov’t that Derailed the Peace Talks
(By Juan Cole) Right wing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday blamed the Palestinians for the collapse of peace negotiations that began last August […]
“Who is Hilal al-Assad?” By Mohammad D.
Hilal al-Assad Who is Hilal al-Assad? By Mohammad D. For Syria Comment, April 5 2014 By the time Hilal al-Assad reached Zahi Azraq Military Hospital […]
The Limitations of Washington’s Proposed NSA Surveillance Reforms
(By Kara Brandeisky for ProPublica) Ten months after Edward Snowden’s first disclosures, three main legislative proposals have emerged for surveillance reform: one from President Obama, […]
State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry
While the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify its $40 million, 6,300 page report detailing the CIA’s torture regime — including the facts that it went beyond what was authorized, produced no useful intelligence and then the CIA lied about…
US: Stop Blocking Palestinian Rights! (HRW)
(By Human Rights Watch) (Jerusalem) – The US government should support rather than oppose Palestinian actions to join international treaties that promote respect for human rights. […]
World Bank Head: Climate Change and Growing Inequality threaten Global Upheaval
(By Jon Queally) President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, is warning that the combined crises of planetary climate change and rising global inequality […]
Top 7 Surprising pieces of Good news in Afghanistan Presidential Election
(By Juan Cole) Afghanistan went to the polls on Saturday, despite threats by the Taliban to disrupt the elections and calls by the extremists for […]
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