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Emails suggest Google and the NSA are closer than we knew
reputation has been shaken by evidence to suggest its relationship with the US National Security Agency (NSA) is cosier than anyone thought. If emails obtained by Al Jazeera are to be believed, relations between Google chairman Eric Schmidt and NSA…
Is Fall of Homs a turning point in Regime’s Quest to Retake Syria?
(By Juan Cole) The Governor of Homs Province, Talal al-Barazi said Wednesday that 80 percent of the rebel fighters in that city have now been […]
Israeli Pres. Peres: Netanyahu blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians
Israel’s Peres says Netanyahu blocked 2011 peace deal (via AFP) Israeli President Shimon Peres said Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked a 2011 peace […]
Rep. Paul Ryan targets Poor as his “Signature Issue”, and I do Mean Targets (Cartoon)
By Paul Jamiol, from Jamiol’s World
Rep. Louie Gohmert: Constitution only fit for Americans who ‘cling to God and guns’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) recently asserted that the U.S. Constitution only applied to people “who cling to their God and their guns.” Speaking at a rally in Iowa for Republican Senate candidate Sam Clovis on Friday, Gohmert recalled that he had…
In Egypt, Industrial Scale Death Decrees
(By Amy Austin Holmes) A single judge in a single court in Egypt has sentenced more people to death this year than the total number […]
Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army: Hunted Children & the Problem of Fundamentalism in Africa
(By Juan Cole) The horrific story of the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from their school in Borno Province, northeastern Nigeria, by the Boko Haram […]
The Death Penalty in the United States (Infographic, plus John Oliver)
Death Penalty in the USA The Death Penalty in the USA. Produced from ArrestRecords.com —— Related video: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Death […]
Apartheid is a reality in the West Bank
(By Glenn Robinson) America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State John Kerry, has found himself in a pickle for having used the word “apartheid” when describing […]
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