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Israel and Palestine: An Animated Introduction
“Easy to understand, historically accurate Jewish Voice for Peace mini- primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been […]
Netanyahu’s Bad Faith: From Gag orders to War as Bread and Circuses
By Carlyn Meyer In a stunning revelation published by the Jewish daily news magazine, Forward, JJ Goldberg uncovers an almost pathological new low for PM […]
Helpless Giant: How Imperial US Elites Tied America Down All by Themselves
By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch For America’s national security state, this is the age of impunity. Nothing it does — torture, kidnapping, assassination, illegal surveillance, […]
The Court Trial of Bibi Netanyahu
By Juan Cole Dark Satire: Irony alert Prosecutor: “Justices of the International Criminal Court, I shall demonstrate to you that this man (points at detained […]
Is Pope Francis the Green Pope?
By Robyn Purchia Pope Francis is putting a smile on environmentalists’ faces again. In an address at the University of Molise on Saturday, an agricultural […]
Draft notices sent out 100 Years Late
By Cory Doctorow A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn’t sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who’d apparently failed […]
Palestine 1896
First film footage taken of Ottoman Palestine (Lumiere Bros.), in 1896. Palestine 1896 h/t William Dalrymple Kemal Karpat wrote that according to the Ottoman Census […]
The Map: A Palestinian Nation Thwarted & Speaking Truth to Power
By Juan Cole Reprint edn. … As part of my original posting, I mirrored a map of modern Palestinian history that has the virtue of […]
Top 7 Really Disturbing News from Iraq
1. Last Wednesday Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki angrily lashed out at the Kurds, accusing them of harboring the terrorists of the so-called ‘Islamic State.’ Since […]
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