by TD Daniell | July 27, 2015 | Current News
Gary Olson The Morning Call Today’s pop quiz: Which of the following countries has the most medical professionals working in the world’s poorest countries; has doctors who have performed 3 million free eye operations in 33 countries; created the...
by TD Daniell | July 27, 2015 | Current News
Chris Hedges truthdig The Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian legislation. No...
by TD Daniell | July 24, 2015 | Current News
Laura Flanders GRITtv Almost a year after the 2012 election, Florida congressman Alan Grayson decided to hold a hearing. The number of drone attacks were going up not down; sparse news reports from mostly military sources weren’t making much of an impact on the...
by TD Daniell | July 20, 2015 | Current News
Kathy Kelly Common Dreams Last weekend, about 100 U.S. Veterans for Peace gathered in Red Wing, Minnesota, for a statewide annual meeting. In my experience, Veterans for Peace chapters hold “no-nonsense” events. Whether coming together for local, statewide, regional...
by TD Daniell | July 16, 2015 | Current News
Max Blumenthal TomDispatch “A fourth operation in the Gaza Strip is inevitable, just as a third Lebanon war is inevitable,” declared Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in February. His ominous comments came just days after an anti-tank missile fired by...