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Has the Obama administration Given into Russia on Syria?
The joint communique issued by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week regarding Syria has in retrospect raised […]
Obama’s War on Whistleblowers who are trying to out Government Waste, Fraud (Van Buren)
Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com: What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that turn brutal torture […]
Hawking joins Academic Boycott of Israel
Physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem this year has been confirmed by Cambridge University. The university initially attempted to […]
Russia Warns Israel: Hands off Syria, as PFLP threatens Guerrilla Strike
The Iranian press is reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has vehemently warned Israel against further airstrikes on Syria. Putin is said to be accelerating […]
Another view of Baghdad: Timelapse Video
Baghdad timelapse
ReOrienting the Veil (Gökariksel)
Banu Gökariksel writes for for ISLAMiCommentary Fatih neighborhood of Istanbul, 2009. photo by Banu Gökarıksel Banu Gökarıksel The veil is a piece of fabric that […]
A Million Newborns die the Day they are Born, every Year: Save the Children
Save the Children reports that a million newborns every year die the same day they are born. Most of these babies die of infections and […]
Fisk on Syria and Stenography “Journalism” (Democracy Now! Video)
Veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk is interviewed by Amy Goodman on his experiences in Syria. In the course of the interview, he denounces the […]
On how Rightwing Israel-firsters don’t actually like Jews: Glenn Beck’s Nazi Bloomberg
The wingnut psychopathology of Glenn Beck and many other hyper-conservatives doesn’t prevent them from being lionized in the media, turned into millionaires by media corporations, […]