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A new study finds that the Madagascar lemur primate is the vertebrate species most threatened by extinction. One reason for the threat is not only human encroachment on habitat but hunting for ‘bushmeat.’ That is, we are eating them to extinction. Here is a video of these magical animals , who are our distant cousins: […]

Some observations for the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad: You know you’re in trouble when you can only rule over people if you massacre them: Opposition sources said that a major massacre was committed on Thursday by Syrian government forces, which bombarded the Sunni town of Taramseh near Hama with artillery and helicopter gunships. The […]

Right wing Israeli officials are concerned about attempts to ‘delegitimize” Israel, and fund former officials and intellectuals to attempt to combat this perceived trend. But it seems obvious that Israel is gradually sinking in the perception of the outside world, and there are concrete reasons for this change. Most of them derive from the train […]