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We’ve been hurt before: Jon Stewart on Obama’s Renewed Pledge on Guantanamo
Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on President Obama’s renewed push to close the illegal Guantanamo prison camp. Limbo Update America wanted to believe Barack Obama’s […]
Syria’s Neighbors have Rising Anxiety about Crisis (Three Aljazeera Videos)
Turkey is strategizing how to limit the impact of the Syria war on Turkey. Ankara is particularly concerned by the emergence of a relatively autonomous […]
Bad Camel
Bad camel sticks head through window of family car, delights little girl no end by licking whole top of her head.
Our Terror: US Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, April 2013:
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism surveys US covert drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen for April, 2013 Pakistan April 2013 actions The US launched two […]
The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World
Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, […]
Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)
Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com: More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything […]
Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria
After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. […]
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession
Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between […]
After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)
As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as […]