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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 […]
Iraq 10 Years Later: The Bitter Days Continue because Policy didn’t put People First (Al-Sheemary)
Banen Al-Sheemary ( @balsheem), a young Iraqi-American woman and activist, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Ten years today, I remember sitting in […]
Will the CIA’s Black Sites and Subcontracting of Tortue Come out with Public Indictment? (Currier)
Cora Currier writes at ProPublica: Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun with six terrorism-related counts. The announcement that […]
How the Big Banks are getting Away with It (Moyers Interview)
Former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and long-time Republican Sheila Bair tells Bill Moyers what the big banks have done and that they’re […]
Isaac Asimov Predicts Interactive Internet 25 Years Ago
Renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov predicts the interactive World Wide Web in 1988, 25 years ago.* *correction from “20 yrs, which is how the […]
Israeli Right: Obama Undermined Netanyahu, Endangers Israel with Call for Palestinian State
President Obama’s speech to students in Jerusalem is covered by Aljazeera. Obama did complain a little about the Israeli occupation of the Palestinians, but he […]
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