Paris (AFP) – France admitted Thursday that it instigated a “system” that led to torture during Algeria’s independence war, a conflict that remains hugely sensitive six decades on. President Emmanuel Macron is set to acknowledge that mathematician Maurice Audin, a Communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the system instigated […]
Archives for September 2018
As Trump-Netanyahu Crush Palestinians, was “Oslo Peace Process” always a Scam?
By Sandy Tolan | – Los Angeles ( Tomdispatch.com) – When I first traveled to Israel-Palestine in 1994, during the heady early days of the Oslo peace process, I was expecting to see more of the joyful celebrations I’d watched on television at home. The emotional welcoming of Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat […]
Israel-backed Group covertly Targeted US Campuses w/ Facebook Ads re: Pro-Palestinian Activist
The well-funded group behind the campaign, the Israel On Campus Coalition, has links to the Israeli government.
Dear Carolinas: You can’t Outlaw Storm Surges & Climate Crisis; Physics isn’t Interested in Your Laws
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There has been a flurry of irony-heavy articles about how the North Carolina, Republican-dominated state legislature, in 2012 forbade state-employed scientists from talking about sea level rise and climate crisis. This ostrich policy of just denying reality was intended to prevent real estate values along the coast from falling, and […]
Syria: Dutch Gov’t Prosecuted Levantine Front Member, then Admitted they Supported It
The government of the Netherlands is facing widespread criticism from lawmakers and citizens after it was revealed it had supported a Syrian rebel group, which Dutch prosecutors had labeled a ‘terrorist’ organization. The revelation came in a news report on Nieuwsuur, a current affairs program on public broadcasters NOS and NTR Monday. According to the […]
Can Iran get around Trump’s Coming Embargo of its Petroleum?
Tehran (AFP) – Iran faces a potentially crushing loss of oil exports when US sanctions return in November, but the impact could be blunted by its experience of working around embargoes. When Iran faced its toughest international sanctions between 2012 and 2015, analysts say it found a number of creative solutions, from repainting and renaming […]
Today, Europe Lost the Internet. Now, We Fight Back
( Electronic Frontier Foundation) – Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like tweets and Facebook updates; […]
UN says Gaza Situation ‘Catastrophic,’ as Trump anti-Palestinian Aid Cuts Bite
Geneva (AFP) – The UN said Wednesday that the situation in Gaza was “catastrophic” after 11 years of “economic siege” and warned that Washington’s decision to halt assistance to Palestinian refugees would create “more misery”. “The situation in Gaza is becoming less and less livable,” said Isabelle Durant, the deputy head of the United Nations […]
Top 3 Charges on which John Bolton should be Tried at Int’l Criminal Court
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – National Security Adviser John Bolton appears to be spiraling down into the same miasma of madness that possesses other members of the Trump administration– perhaps caused by a microbe carried in Trump’s sniffle. This week he threatened justices of the International Criminal Court in the Hague with physical abduction were […]
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