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Abraham Foxman To Step Down as Anti-Defamation League Chief
Abraham H. Foxman announced he will step down from his position as National Director of the Anti-Defamation League on July 20, 2015, bringing to a […]
8 Unsustainable Delusions of the American Way of Life
(By Tom Giesen) The ideal of the American way of life as formulated in the twentieth century has collapsed early in the new Millennium without […]
Brokers of Deceit: Massive US Aid to Israel has Enabled a Colonial Project
(By Chase Madar via Tomdispatch) We Americans have funny notions about foreign aid. Recent polls show that, on average, we believe 28% of the federal […]
20 Banks Funding most Dirty Coal Mining, Climate Disruption, Worldwide
(By Michael Winship) Turning Up Heat on Banks Funding Fossil Fuels (via Moyers & Company) As environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben tells Bill Moyers […]
Top 10 Reasons Rand Paul’s Lewinsky Gambit Can’t Obscure GOP War on Women
(By Juan Cole) Sen. Rand Paul, in preparation for his run at the presidency in 2016, has been attempting to deflect the GOP disadvantage with […]
In midst of Alleged Peace Talks, Israel Announces Hundreds of new Squatter Homes in Palestinian East Jerusalem
(via AFP) Israel approves 550 Jerusalem settler homes (via AFP) Israel expedited Wednesday plans for more than 550 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, in […]
A $9 Trillion War? Top 10 Reasons Americans will Regret it if GOP Derails Iran Negotiations
(By Juan Cole) 40 Republican senators are making a last-minute push to bring further Iran sanctions up for a vote despite the opposition of senate […]
Daily Show on al-Qaeda & Syria Part Deux: That’s not how Bin Laden would have Killed Them
This part of the piece has the clip of my interview on the subject at Aljazeera America. Here is the second part of the Jon […]
Let’s See: Major Droughts in Drying West; Fracking a Water Hog and Causes Drought…
(By Jon Queally) Almost half (47%) of all U.S. wells are being developed in regions with high to extremely high water stress. This means that […]