September 29 marks 100 years since Britain was assigned the role of Mandatory Power in Palestine. Despite a hundred years of bloody conflict and grief, the international community’s obligation to decolonize Palestine continues today. Source Views: 0
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Bad faith, duplicity and cynicism: Britain’s Palestine Mandate, 100 years ago
Cynicism Of Biden’s UN Speech Calling For More Diplomacy
Joe Biden spoke of peace and diplomacy at the U.N. but support for defense spending and war making are bipartisan imperatives that prevent the people’s needs from being met. In the same week that Biden delivered a speech at the United Nations where he argued that force had to be “our tool of last resort, […]
US sanctions against Venezuela destabilizing & ‘imbued with cynicism’ – Russian foreign ministry
The new measures, aimed at exerting more financial pressure on Caracas, were announced at a time when tensions in Venezuela started to decrease and the situation showed signs of relative stabilization, Zakharova said, adding that, in such circumstances, the new sanctions against Venezuela’s financial and oil sectors were “clearly” aimed at “further destabilization of the […]
Confusion, Fear, Cynicism: Why People Don’t Report Hate Crimes
As police stand guard, armed anti-Muslim protestors, who did not want to give their names, stand across the street from a mosque during a demonstration in Richardson, Texas, Dec. 12, 2015. (AP/LM Otero) It is one of the most striking and curious statistics contained in a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report on hate crimes […]
Prescription Meds Get Trapped in Disturbing Pee-to-Food-to-Pee Loop
Prescription Meds Get Trapped in Disturbing Pee-to-Food-to-Pee Loop April 24th, 2016 Via: Ars Technica: If you love something, set it free… so the old adage goes. Well, if the things you love are pharmaceuticals, then you’re in luck. Through vegetables and fruits, the drugs […]
The U.S. empire’s roadmap to world domination: The major maneuvers of 2015 and beyond
Comment: Quite often we get pieces of the big picture. And sometimes we get something like the big picture in one horrible fell swoop… In the last couple years US-NATO forces have intentionally pursued an aggressive path with a current trajectory leading humanity straight into World War III. In contrast to the West’s overt […]