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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture
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Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture

H. Scott Prosterman

Tomer-Yerushalmi freely admits to leaking the video to expose the serious nature of the crimes she was investigating,

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The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

The El Fasher, Sudan, Massacre: Appeal for a UNHRC Special Session

11/06/2025 By Human Rights Watch

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

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When Bibi Meets Modi: Israel and the Indian Elections

(By Shalom Goldman via IslamiCommentary) Shalom Goldman After weeks-long elections in India, the Hindu nationalist BJP party, with Narendra Modi as prime-minister elect, has emerged […]

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Constitution
'Journalist' Michael Kinsley says Gov't should make Publishing Decisions

‘Journalist’ Michael Kinsley says Gov’t should make Publishing Decisions

Glenn Greenwald spends the last third of his excellent new book, “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State”, exposing the mentality and function of pseudo-journalists like David Gregory, who are in fact better understood…

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Climate Change
Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear

Onshore Wind Power in Europe now Cheaper than Gas, Coal or Nuclear

Originally published on Renew Economy. The falling cost of renewables is not news to those who have paid attention to analysis from green-focused think tanks, or groups like Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But it is when a major European utility, with…

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Christianity
Pope Francis in Jordan Reaches out to Forgotten Syrian Refugees, Christians and Muslims

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 […]

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Rocket attack wounds 20 in Libya's Benghazi

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, […]

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Sarah Palin: Veterans died waiting for VA care because ‘Barack Obama is lazy’

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…

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Africa
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crisis: What the Drones Can’t See

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 […]

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Bill of Rights
House Passes Fake USA Freedom Act; Only hope is Senate

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…

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Climate Change
Shouldn't the "1% Doctrine" Apply to the WMD of Climate Change?

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 […]

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