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Ellsberg: All Nixon’s Crimes Against me now Legal
Daniel Ellsberg (Website here) interviewed on CNN’s “In the Arena”: Courtesy Martin Torsleff [CNN:]These days, when you find yourself thinking about Richard Nixon, what comes […]
Leonard Nimoy to Palestinians and Israelis: Live Long and Prosper in Two States
Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek, speaks out as a Jewish American in favor of a two-state solution and a divided Jerusalem. […]
Our News and their News
Americans live in a late capitalist society where the rich have gotten many times richer and the middle class has gotten poorer, where Wall Street […]
What if Everything Ran on Gasoline?
“What if Everything Ran on Gas” is a smart, thought-provoking ad for the Nissan Leaf. I’ve often thought that one of the problems environmentalists face […]
Israeli Troops kill 20, wound Hundreds at Golan
Israeli troops on Sunday fired live ammunition into unarmed crowds of protesters who moved toward the barbed wire fence marking the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (which […]
One to Go
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia), Ali Abdullah Saleh (Yemen), Muammar Qadhafi (Libya), Hosni Mubarak (Egypt); from: VOA report on Afro-Arab summit, October 10, 2010, […]
Was there a Yemeni Revolution?
Aljazeera Arabic is reporting that later in the day Sunday, clashes between armed groups of pro-Saleh and anti-Saleh gunmen broke out in the capital, where […]
Yemen’s Saleh Narrowly Avoids Death, Civil war Looms
Yemeni president for life Ali Abdullah Saleh nearly reached the end of his term on Friday, when rockets slammed into the mosque where he was […]
Libya Rebels take Key Western Mountains, Train Women Fighters
The Free Libya forces centered at Benghazi are turning out to have a vivid political imagination. For instance, they are training female soldiers for the […]
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