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The Forgotten Palestinians
Inequality Inside the Green Line by PATRICK O. STRICKLAND Tel Aviv. On May 15, the New York Times ran an editorial authored by Aaron David Miller under the title of “Preserving Israel’s Uncertain Status Quo.” Miller argues that the Israeli… Read More ›
Israel falsifies documents to deport Sudanese migrants
Israel has deported Sudanese asylum seekers by issuing documents with purposefully incorrect nationalities, a recently published report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed. More than 100 Sudanese nationals in Israel were given passports or birth certificates incorrectly labeling… Read More ›
80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi
Schools That Limit Junk Food and Soda on Campus Have Lower Obesity Rates By Tom Philpott Is your kid’s public school a Coke school or a Pepsi school? If you don’t know what I mean, consider yourself lucky. Starting in… Read More ›
Why the world can’t tolerate a preemptive Israeli attack on Iran
Under the UN Charter, neither Israel nor the US would have a legal right to preemptively launch a military attack on Iran. Do we want a world in which leaders are free to launch military attacks on other countries simply… Read More ›
Obama turns back the clock on Guantanamo
By Baher Azmy New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began trickling out in… Read More ›
The NYT and the School of Assassins
by JOAN ROELOFS Saturday, August 11, The New York Times printed a front page article about the nun, Sister Megan Rice, age 82, who committed civil disobedience at the Oak Ridge Tennessee nuclear reservation in a protest against nuclear weapons…. Read More ›
128 Killed as Iraq’s Bloody Summer Continues
Deadly July Gives Way to an Ugly August July was the deadliest month in Iraq in over two years, with 325 people killed by the reckoning of the Iraqi Health Ministry. August looks like it might surpass it pretty handily… Read More ›
Report: Obama to Tell Israel US ‘Will Attack Iran by June 2013′ If Diplomacy Fails
It could be a tactic to stave off an Israeli attack before the November elections, but such talk is incredibly dangerous According to Israel’s Channel 10 news, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon meet so… Read More ›
Families of assassinated Iranian scientists’ sue Israel, US, UK
The families of Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated by foreign-backed terrorists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, for their involvement in the murders. Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, father of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who… Read More ›
Poll: Majority of Israelis Opposed to Attacking Iran
Former PM Olmert: No Reason to Attack Now Amid a growing flurry of speculation that an Israeli attack on Iran is imminent, a new poll from the Dialogue Institute shows a solid majority of the nation is opposed to the… Read More ›
Off-duty police officer shoots dead outraged father who confronted him after he mowed down his four-year-old daughter
An unnamed, off-duty officer has killed the father of a little girl he crashed into late Saturday night. Authorities say that Taniyah Middleton, 4, was crossing First Avenue in the Maywood section of Chicago with her older cousin when the… Read More ›
Cold War Killer File: the Death Squads of El Salvador – Part 1
“All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.” – Jesse Helms “[T[ake care of this archbishop, these Jesuits, these other priests and especially these foreigners who are ruining the minds of our children. And… Read More ›
Will the US Really Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020?
Circa 1870, the North fought the South in the Civil War. Half a century later, around 1920, worker unrest, racial tensions and anti-Communist sentiment caused another nationwide upsurge of violence. Then, 50 years later, the Vietnam War and Civil Rights… Read More ›
“Iran and Everything Else” by Michael Parenti
Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 