‘Palestinian civil society activists have called for the resignation of UN officials implicated in sabotaging moves to have Israel’s army included on a UN list of serious violators of children’s rights. Meanwhile, senior UN officials […]
Israel protests Hungary’s Eurovision entry ‘Israel is protesting Hungary’s Eurovision entry, which includes condemnation against Operation Protective Edge and mentions the number of Palestinian children killed during the 2014 Israeli military campaign. Israeli Ambassador Ilan […]
‘The body tasked with investigating British abuses in Iraq has said it will not request as evidence the US Senate’s report on CIA torture, in the case of two Pakistani men tortured and rendered by […]
‘There is trouble again for federal mortgage backers and bailout queens Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose failures helped to trigger the housing market collapse and subsequent 2008 economic crisis. The government enterprises are again […]
‘The U.S. is backing Ukraine’s extreme right-wing Svoboda party and violent neo-Nazis whose armed uprising paved the way for a Western-backed coup. Events in the Ukraine are giving us another glimpse through the looking-glass of […]
‘In the event of a US invasion of Venezuela, Bolivia would side with Venezuela. So said Bolvia’s president Morales during an emergency session of ALBA, and called on other Latin American heads of state to draw […]
‘The White House office in charge cataloging and archiving government emails is no longer subject to Freedom of Information Act requests after a new regulation went into effect — meaning that former Secretary of State […]
‘In case you haven’t heard, Starbucks is now offering its very own version of “coconut milk” or more formally known as: Starbucks Single Origin Sumatra Coconut Milk. What might that statement mean in terms of […]
‘”The specific causes of this illness are still under investigation,” says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the rise of a so-called “mystery” disease that currently available evidence suggests may be caused by […]
‘Growing up in a Jehovah’s Witness family is different. As a child, I didn’t celebrate birthdays, Christmas or July 4. Nor did I, or anyone I knew, mix with non-Witness families in Little League or […]
‘If the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is saying that Kraft Singles are good for us, surely schmaltz is next. The metaphoric meaning of schmaltz is sentimentality – a heart-tugging moment, accompanied by real or […]
‘It’s comforting that we have the assurance of everyone from the president on down that the government has no interest in intruding on the lives of fellow Americans without cause as they did back in […]
‘Desperate to win reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stripped off Israel’s mask and exposed the ugliness that has deformed his country over the past several decades. He abandoned the subterfuge of a two-state solution, […]
‘An Italian minister has announced his resignation following the revelation of a corruption scandal involving his department and his son. Maurizio Lupi, the transport and infrastructure minister, said on Thursday that he would resign on […]