By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was a year ago): slowing demand due to global economic stagnation; overproduction at shale fields in the United States; the decision of the Saudis and […]
Contrary to Israeli PM, alternative to realistic Iran Nuclear Deal is *no* Deal
By Thomas Graham, Jr. | (Informed Comment) A possible agreement on the nuclear issue with Iran has been much in the news these days. The United States has been trying to restrain the Iranian nuclear program for more than 20 years with little to show for it until a so-called interim agreement between the Permanent […]
Satellite Imaging Shows 4/5s of Lights across Syria have gone out
By Josh Butler | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – A single image can be more powerful, more descriptive and more potent than an entire essay – ‘ a picture says a thousand words,’ as the cliché goes. So it is in Syria, where despite the undoubted millions of words penned about atrocity after atrocity, bombing […]
Israeli Army Incursion into Central Gaza to Bulldoze Farmland
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies – Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers carried out, on Wednesday morning, a limited invasion into an area east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza, and bulldozed farmlands. Eyewitnesses said the vehicles, accompanied by four armored D9 bulldozers, stationed in the Kissufim military base across […]
Did GOP Leaders Betray Our Country By Writing Letter to Iran?
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – “”Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses the continuing developments between the United States and its allies and Iran regarding their Nuclear program. Forty seven republicans in the Senate have sent a letter to the leaders of Iran without asking the permission of the officials in […]
On Int’l Women’s Day, Lebanese Anchor stands up to Sexist Sheikh
Elliott Hill and Mark Sovel | The Lip TV | – “Sexist Islamist scholar Hani Al-Seba’i told Lebanese television host Rima Karaki to shut up in an interview on Lebanon’s Al Jadeed where he was discussing reports of Christians joining ISIS. The sheikh went on to claim it was beneath him to be interviewed by […]
5 Things Official Washington won’t Tell you about Netanyahu’s Israel
Bill Van Esveld | (Human Rights Watch) – Amid the controversy around Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress, the Obama administration’s National Security Council (NSC) recently published “five key facts you need to know about the US-Israel relationship under President Obama.” Here are some relevant facts it neglected to mention: NSC: […]
Dems on Hill line up with Obama on Iran Deal after GOP Letter Stunt
By Luke Johnson | (RFE/RL) WASHINGTON — Democratic Party backers of a bipartisan bill requiring congressional review of a potential deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program are concerned that a Republican letter to Iran could hurt the measure. “I think it raises real questions about whether there remains a bipartisan commitment to supporting negotiations,” Senator […]
Oklahoma: SAE Fraternity has Troubled History of Race Vandalism, Hazing
KJRH-TV | (Tulsa) – An Oklahoma station reports that SAE fraternity members have been involved in anti-Semitic and anti-Native American acts of vandalism as well as the racist chant against African-Americans recorded on Sunday at the University of Oklahoma. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on March 9, […]
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