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Eyeless in Gaza: When will Israel let its People Go?
Israeli war planes struck the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israel has roughly 7.5 million people, Gaza roughly 1.7 million. Israel bombed and destroyed Gaza’s […]
How the Pentagon Helped Make Afghanistan the Most Corrupt Country on Earth (Hiro)
Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely […]
Syrian Revolution even Bloodier in March, with record 6000 Dead
Syrian dissidents say that some 6,000 people died in Syria in March, the largest one-month toll since the movement to overthrow the Baathist regime of […]
Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef on Kafkaesque Interrogation (CNN Video)
Bassem Youssef tells Christiane Amanpour about the 5-hour Kafkaesque interrogation he underwent after being summoned by the prosecutor-general. The humorless prosecutors essentially made a montage […]
Jim Carrey: Fox ‘News’ is “A media colostomy bag… a public health issue” (Video)
Comedian Jim Carrey has hit back at Fox Cable News for its campaign of defamation in the wake of his release of a video parodying […]
Why this and not that? America’s topsy turvy priorities
Why this and not that? I don’t understand my own country much of the time. For instance, in his first major public speech after resigning […]
Obama’s Israel Trip Reinforced Dangerous Fantasies of the Right on Iran (Chernus)
Ira Chernus writes at Tomdispatch.com Barack Obama came to Israel and Palestine, saw what he wanted to see, and conquered the mainstream media with his […]
Egypt’s War on Satire: Prosecutor Summons Cairo’s Jon Stewart
I have long held that the worst thing about religious fundamentalism is that it is humorless. And, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is proving me right. […]
As they did to Iraq, they would Do to Iran (Jamiol Cartoon)
Recycled WMD charges: From Jamiol’s World