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BuzzFlash
Former Israeli Prime Minister Committed Assassinations and Massacres: Wasn't He a Terrorist?
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Yitzhak Shamir was a member of the Stern Gang "in the 1940s, when he sent Jewish fighters out to kill British officers whom he saw as occupiers. He was a wanted man then; to the British rulers of Palestine he was a terrorist, an assassin."
Gaza: Our Bodies Are Spent, but Our Spirit Endures
The Nuclear Era: Trembling in Fear of Our Folly
Torture at Abu Ghraib Followed CIA's Manual
Charles P. Pierce | Meet the Methane
Monsanto Ordered to Pay $93 Million to Small Town for Poisoning Citizens
Here's How Austerity Torpedoed the Economic Recovery
Khmer Rouge Leaders Found Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and Jailed for Life
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William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: On Friday, Mr. Obama chose to soft-pedal the disgrace of torture, called the perpetrators "patriots," and told those of us upset about the whole thing not to be "sanctimonious" in our indignation. With this, the president lost any moral authority he had left.
James Kilgore, Truthout: Last week US authorities began to place ankle bracelets on a few newly arrived refugees. This represents a continuation of the criminalization and punishment of immigrants. Meanwhile, the root causes of the refugee crisis remain unaddressed.
Kara Z. Dellacioppa, Truthout: The republication of Douglas Valentine's The Phoenix Program, as the first installment in a series of repressed, forgotten books by Open Road Media, offers the opportunity to observe the continuity between the CIA's secret war against civilians in Vietnam and our own "Homeland Security" apparatus.
Bryan Van Hulst, Truthout: As Israel commits genocide in Gaza, Palestine opens up wounds of colonial trauma connecting Third World people in their struggles with racial injustice, colonial occupation and imperial domination across borders. In song and protest, Third World solidarity with Palestine is imagining a de-colonial liberation that makes other worlds possible.
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: What if President Obama had rejected conventional political advice and pushed for a new New Deal? What if an effective, nonaligned left had pushed for such a program?
Mary Catherine O'Connor, Earth Island Journal: In Wisconsin's picturesque Northwoods, a big battle over iron-ore extraction is pitting environmentalists and Native Americans against mining companies and their political allies.
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: In a report this week, Human Rights Watch accused Israeli soldiers of shooting and killing fleeing civilians in Gaza, citing interviews with seven Palestinians in the village of Khuza'a.
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: President Obama pledged US partnership to South Sudan, emphasizing security and development. There's precious little evidence of either of these at the UN camps, and even less in vast areas of the countryside now teetering on the edge of a catastrophic famine.
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report: Extreme weather conditions around the globe, including rising temperatures, droughts, crop failures, melting sea ice, rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers and the loss of plant and animal species, all point in only one direction. The tipping point toward the sixth great extinction is taking place right now.
Sue Sturgis, Facing South: Water pollution is not the only environmental threat from poorly regulated coal ash: A new report identifies serious health risks from airborne coal ash, which will be a growing problem for North Carolina and other states as they shift from wet to dry storage.
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: This segment includes an update on the Pentagon's overpayments and a discussion of how mortgages are tilting toward the rich, as well as coverage of the subprime car loan bubble and the silence around intangible property tax. We also discuss the economic organizations of the Republican and Democratic Parties, and more on socialism and Marx.
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