The currently dominant right wing coalition would fall from holding 61 seats in the 120-member Israeli parliament or Knesset to only 50.
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Pope Francis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Women’s Equality: Why Must Religion be Patriarchal?
The selection of the new pope was carried out by a conclave of elderly men, and the only candidates were men. The new pope is […]
Why Wasn’t the Higgs Boson Discovered in the US? Neal DeGrasse Tyson explains congressional stupidity
Scientists at a conference in Italy have confirmed the discovery of the Higgs Boson, after further experiments performed at the large hadron collider near Geneva […]
Phoenix, Az.: Climate Change Denial HQ will be First Urban Victim of … Climate Change (deBuys)
William deBuys writes at Tomdispatch.com Of course, it’s an easy city to pick on. The nation’s 13th largest metropolitan area (nudging out Detroit) crams 4.3 […]
Top Ten Ways Pope Francis heralds the Emergence of Global South
The selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pope signals the first time the Roman Catholic Church has been headed by […]
What the US invasion felt like to Iraqis (Kukis)
Journalist Mark Kukis (Time magazine correspondent in Iraq 2006-2009) writes in a guest piece for Informed Comment Iraqis have a phrase they use to describe […]
Amazing Social Media Facts 2013 (video)
Social media facts 2013, by the numbers:
Falsity of Nuclear Accusation against Iraq Was Known before Bush’s Invasion
As we approach the ten year anniversary of the launching of George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, it is worth my pointing out that I […]
Bradley Manning Explains his Leaks in his own Voice in new Tape (Goodman)
Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! airs excerpts from a leaked interview in which Bradley Manning for the first time since his arrest can be heard explaining […]
Everybody Leaks in Washington: What the Bradley Manning Trial Tells us about a Broken System (Schanzer)
DAVID SCHANZER writes at ISLAMiCOMMENTARY When you cut through the bluster and controversies surrounding the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks case, it raises a difficult unresolved question that […]
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