former Israeli PM Ehud Barak is being held to account, only because the ruling Likud Party perceives him as an enemy of their agenda
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Iran Threatens to Pull out of Nuclear Deal over new UN Sanctions
Iranian member of parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar warned Thursday that “If (the West) issues a new resolution against Iran, we will not be committed to […]
Top Ten Other Gratuitously Offensive Draw-a-Cartoon Days
The juvenile “draw Muhammad” day has generally been avoided by professional editorial cartoonists. One Islamophobic theme apparent in the writing on it is that Muslims […]
Angry Tea Partiers are not the Moral Equivalent of Compassionate Democrats
Just to enter an objection to the increasing tendency of the mainstream media to equate the Tea Party on the American right wing with supposedly […]
Apartheid Israel, Bunker Israel: Elvis Costello and Noam Chomsky
The repercussions of the brutal shooting-fish-in-a-barrel Gaza War, of the continued Israeli siege and boycott of the Gaza Strip, and of the vigorous colonization of […]
Kabul Blast Kills 19, Wounds 52; 5 US Troops Dead
The BBC is reporting that Afghan guerrillas deployed a suicide car bomb against a NATO military convoy in west Kabul near the parliament building Tuesday […]
Iran Announces Breakthrough Nuclear Exchange Deal
Veteran Iran observer Borzou Daragahi reports on the agreement just announced by Iran and Turkey on the disposition of Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium. Under […]
Palestinians Observe Nakbah or Catastrophe Day, raise Hopes of Unity
Thousands of Palestinians rallied in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate the Nakbah or national catastrophe of 1948, when European Jewish settlers brought into the Mandate […]
BP Trashes Apollo Astronauts, Parrots Sarah Palin; Oil Godzilla heads for Coast
In a BBC interview British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward said Friday that the massive petroleum gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the greatest oil-based environmental […]
US Troop Withdrawal in Iraq on Track
WaPo says that the Obama administration is still on track to draw down to 50,000 troops in Iraq by September 1, despite press speculation to […]
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