Netanyahu traveled to Florida for an extended meeting with President Donald Trump, and the conversation focused heavily on Iran
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Mass Protests, Strikes in Turkey over Erdogan’s Neoliberal Response to Miner Deaths
(By Juan Cole) Turkey’s Public Workers Union Confederation announced a one-day strike to demand better worker safety and political protests have broken out Friday in […]
Greenwald: NSA sneaking backdoors into hardware exports
Glenn Greenwald has accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of inserting backdoors for surveillance purposes into servers being exported to other countries. The irony here is that this is just the sort of thing that the US government has in the…
Rising Numbers of Palestinian Children Subjected to Solitary Confinement
Rising Numbers of Palestinian Children Subjected to Solitary Confinement (via PRWeb) A new report from Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) finds that in 21.4 […]
Activists in Bahrain denounce anti-Shia Policies
(By Catherine Shakdam) Early last week political activists affiliated with Bahrain’s opposition groups delivered a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon calling for […]
You always knew it was a Gas Hog: Ben Affleck’s Batmobile to be a Hybrid
Ben Affleck is slated to be the next Batman, and the Batmobile could get a major overhaul too. A hybrid Batmobile? Even the Dark Knight is going green. Yesterday director Zack Snyder tweeted the above teaser picture of the next Batmobile, and later…
Iran Going Big With Renewables! 5,000 MW Of New Solar & Wind Capacity By 2018?
Iran is aiming big with renewables, based on recent statements made by the Iranian Energy Minister, Hamid Chitchian. As revealed by Chitchian, the country’s new goal is to add 5,000 MW of new solar energy and wind energy capacity by the year 2018.…
Donald Sterling’s Illiberal Zionism Part of Racism Controversy with Magic Johnson
(By Juan Cole) Major political ideas and philosophies are complex and ambiguous, not straightforward. American conservatism is an alliance of economic conservatives and cultural conservatives. […]
NASA: West Antarctic ice sheet collapse now Inevitable, 10 ft Sea Rise Locked In
West Antarctic ice sheet collapse ‘unstoppable’, says NASA (via AFP) Ice is melting in the western Antarctic at an “unstoppable” pace, scientists said Monday, warning […]
When Greenwald met Snowden: “Spark a … movement against the dangers of state surveillance”
(By Glenn Greenwald via Tomdispatch) [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: […]
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