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Threat to Rule of Law: Sen. Padilla thrown to Ground, Cuffed at Noem DHS Press Conference
“This isn’t just shocking,” said Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.). “It’s a threat to the rule of law and democratic accountability.” By Jon Queally. | – […]
How Pete Rose and Donald Trump Are the Dregs of American “Masculinity”
By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should […]
Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human-caused global heating is hitting the Middle East hard, and rates of cancer in Middle Eastern women are increasing. Is […]
Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t
( Middle East Monitor ) – It may not have occurred to David Ben-Gurion 77 years ago, when he approved a limited exemption from military […]
Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done
By Jessica Whyte, UNSW Sydney and Sara Dehm, University of Technology Sydney (The Conversation) – The Australian government is imposing financial and travel sanctions on […]
How Israeli and International Businesses and Financial Institutions Sustain Illegal Occupation
As the West Bank is being annexed to Israel through blood and violence, many Israeli and international businesses and financials are tacitly supporting the ethnic […]
Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our Study shows Africa’s Seas have some of the Strongest
By James H. VanZwieten Jr., Florida Atlantic University; Gabriel Alsenas, Florida Atlantic University; Mahsan Sadoughipour, Florida Atlantic University, and Yufei Tang, Florida Atlantic University (The […]
Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid: The United States and Israel
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a […]
The Earth and Human Beings must Be Saved Together
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A postcard I use as a bookmarker contains a set of principles for gardening in urban soils […]
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