by Tim Radford, Climate New Network If you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails—including demands… Read More ›
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Israel’s destruction of multistorey buildings: extensive, wanton and unjustified
Air strikes on landmark buildings at the tail end of the Israeli military’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in August 2014 were a deliberate and direct attack on civilian buildings and amount to war crimes, says Amnesty International today. “Nothing… Read More ›
The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Almost Certainly Dead
The Keystone XL Pipeline project is almost certainly dead. No, not because a bill that would have finally given the go-ahead to begin construction fell one vote short in the lame duck Senate last month. Sure, that halted the legislative… Read More ›
Was Michael Brown surrendering or advancing to attack Officer Darren Wilson?
Just before Michael Brown was felled by police bullets, he turned to face the officer, Darren Wilson, who had been in pursuit. Then, at the climax of an incident that has gripped and divided the country, Brown started moving toward… Read More ›
Shin Bet Chief: Mahmoud Abbas Isn’t Inciting Terror
By J.J. Goldberg in The Jewish Daily Forward The director of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service, speaking in the wake of today’s massacre in a Jerusalem synagogue, told a Knesset committee that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas “is not interested… Read More ›
‘Keystone XL Clone’ to Pump Tar Sands Oil Starting Next Year
By Anastasia Pantsios As Republicans get set to test their new majority in the U.S. Senate and their complete control of Congress to push through approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, a new investigative report by editor Lou Dubose at the… Read More ›
Anonymous Seized The Klan’s Main Twitter Account This Morning
By skywriter and wouldn’t let go until a short time ago. Anonymous had been in control of the Klan’s main Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA since 9 this morning, posting its own pictures on the racists’ account and using the hashtags, #OpKKK #Ferguson… Read More ›
Did Voting Restrictions Determine the Outcomes of Key Midterm Races?
By Ari Berman in The Nation Bryan McGowan spent twenty-two years in the US Marine Corps, including four tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. When he was stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina from 2005 until 2010, McGowan used same-day… Read More ›
South Florida Wants to Split State Over Climate Change
by Anastasia Pantsios Some may remember a politically motivated proposal to split California into six separate states floated earlier this year. That was basically a proposal by a wealthy venture capitalist for the rich areas to take their ball and go… Read More ›
Jim Crow returns: Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge
Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed… Read More ›
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