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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President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil at UN delivers Stinging Rebuke to Obama on NSA Spying (Lazare)
Reuters reports on President Roussef’s speech condemning US spying on her country and on her personally: Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams: In a furious critique […]
Is Iran Ready to do a Deal with Obama over its Nuclear Program?
The United States, France, Germany, the UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE form a bloc that are convinced that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program is […]
Is Hamas Finished? Facing a Youth Rebellion and Egyptian, Iranian Hostility
The party-militia Hamas, a distant offshoot in Palestinian Gaza of the Muslim Brotherhood, has seldom been on the sunny side of the street. But a […]
Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ Was less Intrusive than our own Feds & We OK’d That (Calabrese and Harwood)
Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood write at Tomdispatch.com For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database filled with […]
Alshabab attack on Nairobi a Sign of Political Defeat
The horrible attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi by members of the Alshabab terrorist group from neighboring Somalia is the act of a declining […]
Top Five Wind Energy Successes Today
Wind energy at the moment is by the apparent numbers less expensive than solar, and huge wind farms are being opened throughout the world. There […]
Americans Drawing the Line on Day of Action against Keystone XL (Lazare)
Sarah Lazare writes at Commondreams.org: In towns and cities across the U.S., demonstrators are 'drawing the line' Saturday demanding that President Obama protect people and […]
Israeli Troops attack European Diplomats on Aid Mission
First the Israelis again erased a Palestinian population, ruling that the 120 Bedouin inhabitants of Khirbet Makhul in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank did not […]
I lived to See the Day when the Pope and the President of Iran are more doctrinally Flexible than the GOP
The United States has all along been a society dominated by the wealthy, and more especially by the business classes. But businesspeople are not all […]
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