This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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DOJ Subpoenas Twitter Account of Wikileaks Volunteer and now Iceland MP
The US Department of Justice has subpoenaed from Twitter the private emails of former Wikileaks activist Birgitt Jonsdottir, now a member of Iceland’s parliament. She […]
Egyptian Muslims Throng in Thousands to Protect Christians
Thousands of Muslims honored a promise made by their leaders and showed up at Christmas Mass or at candlelight vigils outside Egyptian churches on Friday, […]
Today in Apartheid
Israeli troops made an incursion into the Palestinian city of al-Khalil (which the Israelis call Hebron) and killed the wrong man, invading his apartment and […]
Wikileaks: US Offered to Block anti-Whaling Protesters
Some environmentalists are arguing that whales and dolphins are so intelligent, social and self-aware that they deserve a special status, of non-human individuals with basic […]
Wainwright: Taseer’s Assassination Lays Bare Contradictions in Pakistani Islam
Aadil Wainwright writes from Pakistan in a guest column for Informed Comment: The assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has laid bare a crucial debate […]
Iran’s Oily Revenge on US Drivers, US Troops
They’re baaaack. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is being chaired by Iran at the moment. And Iran thinks the run-up of the price […]
Sadr Returns Triumphantly to Najaf
Al-Zaman (The Times of Baghdad) writes in Arabic that Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadr Movement, returned on Wednesday to Najaf after 4 years […]
Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenpost has released a March, 2008, US embassy cable describing the Israeli blockade and siege of Occupied Gaza as an attempt to […]
Reagan gave Medicare the Tea Party Treatment
2011: GOP pledges to repeal Health Care as socialist plot, on behalf of big Pharma. 1961: Ronald Reagan attacks Medicare as socialist plot, on behalf […]
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