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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BBC Journalists accidentally Bombed by US Air Force during 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Video)
BBC crew accidentally bombed by US Air Force during 2003 invasion of Iraq: Video at Youtube:
Kerry Cajoles Afghanistan and Iraq, as Bush’s former colonies decline to Toe the Line
Secretary of State John Kerry just made trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration’s two trophy states, in an attempt to shore up rapidly […]
US Drone Campaign in Pakistan: Amazing Infographic (Serle)
Jack Serle writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Pitch Interactive have visualised every CIA drone strike and every casualty in Pakistan. A new interactive […]
Viral Video on America’s Incredibly Skewed distribution of Wealth
A fascinating video on America’s incredibly skewed wealth distribution, with the top 1% owning 40% and the bottom 40% almost nothing: and it’s getting worse […]
Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Attorney: “Shocked at Conditions,” “Animal Cages”
Russia Today reports on the hunger strikes among Guantanamo prisoners, 166 of whom are said still to be living in small “animal cages” and to […]
Palestinians Alarmed at Obama’s New Christian Zionism, Failure to Push for Settlement Freeze
Aljazeera English reports on Obama’s failures and successes on his recent Mideast trip. Below, I quote translations from the Palestinian press showing for the most […]
Air Power is horribly Expensive and Inefficient, and Drones are no Different (Astore)
William J. Astore writes at Tomdispatch.com: Today’s unmanned aerial vehicles, most famously Predator and Reaper drones, have been celebrated as the culmination of the longtime […]
The Top other thing Netanyahu Needs to Apologize For: The Gaza Blockade
The one diplomatic success of President Obama’s mainly pro forma visit to Israel and Jordan was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s pro forma apology to Turkey’s […]
Global Warming is making the Arid Middle East Even Drier, threatening Water Wars
Middle East is getting drier because of climate change, impelling people to replace lost rain water with underground fossil or aquifer water that cannot be […]
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