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Top 10 Reasons Americans should Dismiss Israel’s Netanyahu on Attacking Iran
The Iranian electorate did about the most cruel thing possible to uber-hawk Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It replaced former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with […]
“Mull”: Twitter word of the Day (Short Words for 140-Character Messages)
Twitter imposes a 140-character limit on messages, requiring that authors make every word count. To “consider” or to “contemplate” are long words, and character-hogs. The […]
Kenya: Solar Power on a Pay as you Go Plan gives Light, rechargers to Villagers
“Small solar home systems bring good quality light and phone-charging to off-grid households and save them money. Yet their upfront costs render them out of […]
Obama Explains his NSA Domestic Spying & Why it differs from Bush’s (Cartoon satire)
Cartoon satire: “President Obama explains why Americans should not be concerned about the NSA’s secret data collection program and that he is very different from […]
Israel’s District 9: Its Biggest Ethnic Cleansing since 1948
30,000 Palestinian-Israelis of Bedouin heritage are are being forcibly transferred by the Israeli government, and thousands of acres of their land is being stolen from […]
The Backlash against Political Islam is not a Backlash against Islam: Egypt and Bangladesh
There is a big difference between being a believing Muslim and being a devotee of political Islam. Political Islam attempts to make the religion a […]
Guns and Sissified Punks (Friday Scene)
From the 1995 stoner movie “Friday”: The father [John Witherspoon] of Craig Jones [Ice Cube] warns him against carrying a gun in the local neighborhood […]
Tiny Cape Verde’s Push to be a World Leader in Wind Energy
Finnfund explains: “The windswept islands of Cape Verde lie off West Africa, some 500 km from Senegal. They are the site of Africa’s largest wind […]
A Century of America’s Imperial Deep State (McCoy)
Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch.com The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future […]
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