by TD Daniell | August 26, 2015 | Current News
Juan Cole Informed Comment Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday declared Israeli squatting on the Palestinian West Bank a “right” and as an essential Zionist principle. Reuven, a former chairman of the far-right Likud Party now in power, is known to favor a...
by TD Daniell | August 19, 2015 | Current News
Medea Benjamin OtherWords Except for maybe the Affordable Care Act, nothing gets Republican politicians fired up like Iran. In the first GOP debate alone, Scott Walker promised that he’d tear up the Iran nuclear deal on day one of his presidency. Carly Fiorina blamed...
by TD Daniell | August 4, 2015 | Current News
Christian Appy TomDispatch “Never, never waste a minute on regret. It’s a waste of time.” —President Harry Truman Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one...
by TD Daniell | July 31, 2015 | Current News
Joseph Gerson Common Dreams Seventy years ago, two nuclear weapons targeted against cities which met the criteria of having “densely packed workers’ homes,” killed more than 200,000 people in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the years that have...
by TD Daniell | July 29, 2015 | Current News
Robert Fisk The Independent The Kurds were born to be betrayed. Almost every would-be Middle East statelet was promised freedom after the First World War, and the Kurds even sent a delegation to Versailles to ask for a nation and safe borders. But under the Treaty of...