Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]
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Planned Israeli Detention Camps for Africans Draw Human Rights Protests
An Israeli law allowing the arrest and detention of illegal immigrants for up to 3 years without trial has been denounced as contrary to basic […]
83 Dead in Syrian Military Repression
Some 83 Syrians, most of them non-combatants, were killed on Saturday by the Syrian military. In Deraa, the small town in the south of the […]
What Americans Sorely Need (Mark Twain Poster)
Faux News & Patriotism (Jamiol Cartoon)
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Thugs Attack Women Demonstrators in Cairo – Whodunit?
Discontent, disturbance and legal failures in Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey (Fitzgibbon)
Will Fitzgibbon writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism It has been a big week for the NGO heavy-hitters. Three separate investigations in three different […]
The Panetta/ Pakistan War of Words
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has caused a stir by warning US ally Pakistan that Washington’s ‘patience is wearing thin’ with the support for the […]
The Great Wall of . . . Arizona (Miller)
Todd Miller writes at Tomdispatch.com Bringing the Battlefield to the Border The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona By Todd Miller […]
Syria and the Rise of the Death Squad
The fresh Baath massacre of non-combatants, in Qubair on Wednesday, is being assiduously covered up by the government of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who is preventing […]
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