Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
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Pope Francis in Jordan Reaches out to Forgotten Syrian Refugees, Christians and Muslims
By Juan Cole AFP Arabic reports that Syrian refugees, and Christian refugees in particular, are hoping that the visit of Pope Francis to Jordan on […]
Rocket attack wounds 20 in Libya's Benghazi
Twenty members of a single family were wounded when a rocket slammed into their home near an army base in Libya’s second city Benghazi overnight, […]
Sarah Palin: Veterans died waiting for VA care because ‘Barack Obama is lazy’
Fox News contributor and half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said this week that veterans had died waiting for health care from Veterans Affairs facilities because President Barack Obama was “lazy” due to his upbringing. “The problem starts…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See
By Allan Christelow On the night of April 14-15 2014, militants from the group known as Boko Haram broke into the dormitory of a secondary […]
House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate
As explained earlier, due to pressure from the White House and NSA’s supporters in Congress, what could have been real NSA reform was completely changed at the last minute, in secret. The bill, which was substantially different than what both the Judiciary…
Shouldn’t the “1% Doctrine” Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?
(By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com) Who could forget? At the time, in the fall of 2002, there was such a drumbeat of “information” from top figures in […]
Pope Francis to call for Sovereign, Independent Palestinian State from Bethlehem
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin is signaling that Pope Francis in his visit to Bethlehem on Sunday will strongly support the right of […]
Anthony Bourdain on Palestinians: “The World has visited many terrible things on” them, robbed of their Humanity
Anthony Bourdain: it is something we do all the time: “Show regular people doing everyday things–cooking and enjoying meals… It is a measure, I guess, […]
NASA’s Launch Pads menaced by Sea Level Rise it is Charged to Monitor
Sea level rise forces US space agency to retreat (via AFP) Sea level rise is threatening the majority of NASA’s launch pads and multi-billion dollar […]