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Timothy McGrath

Here’s A Word Cloud For Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech To Congress

Iran. Nuclear. Deal. Israel.

March 5th, 2015
Timothy McGrath
March 5th, 2015
By Timothy McGrath
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a long-awaited and controversial speech before both houses of the United States Congress on Tuesday, and it was a doozy. Bibi's been beating the drum about a nuclear Iran for as long as he's been prime minister, and his congressional speech was like a super aggressive drum solo interrupted by

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‘Swiss Leaks’ Reveal How Much Money The Rich Are Hiding

Analysis: Heard about income inequality lately? Here’s one way the rich keep getting richer.

February 20th, 2015
Simran Khosla
Timothy McGrath
February 20th, 2015
By Simran Khosla
And Timothy McGrath

Everybody knows what a “Swiss bank account” is. Hollywood tells us they’re top-secret safety deposit boxes for the world’s elite — places where drug kingpins and bankers and politicians and heirs hide their fortunes from government investigations and taxation. They’re how the super rich do banking. Now, thanks to one whistleblower and a team of

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What’s Next For The Families Of AirAsia Flight 8501 Passengers?

More waiting, first of all.

December 31st, 2014
Timothy McGrath
December 31st, 2014
By Timothy McGrath
Indonesia Plane

Relatives of passengers of AirAsia Flight 8501 cry after visiting the crisis center at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. A massive hunt for the victims of the airliner resumed in the Java Sea on Wednesday, but wind, strong currents and high surf hampered recovery efforts as distraught family

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Video: What Would The Syrian Refugee Crisis Look Like In Manhattan?

If 1.5 million people had to flee the Big Apple, the world would notice.

December 17th, 2014
Timothy McGrath
December 17th, 2014
By Timothy McGrath
syria_manhattan

Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Syria since the ongoing crisis began in March 2011. Of the refugees, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that 1.5 million are children. That's nearly the entire population of Manhattan. An exodus of this magnitude is beyond most people's imaginations unless you're

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An Israeli newspaper published this stupid 9/11 cartoon. Here’s the REAL reason you should be mad

For people who genuinely care about US policies with respect to Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East more broadly, the real reason to be perturbed is that it’s a massive, unnecessary distraction from a serious diplomatic problem and from a crisis on the ground in East Jerusalem that’s set to explode.

October 31st, 2014
Timothy McGrath
October 31st, 2014
By Timothy McGrath
haaretz_cartoon_lead

Oh boy... That was probably the experience readers of Ha'aretz, a left-leaning Israeli newspaper, had today when they discovered this cartoon, which shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying an airplane into one of the World Trade Center towers. Below the cartoon, editors wrote "US-Israel tensions: The crisis with Washington is here to

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VIDEO: Hungarians Take To Throwing Computers At Government Buildings To Protest Internet Tax

Don’t mess with net neutrality.

October 28th, 2014
Timothy McGrath
October 28th, 2014
By Timothy McGrath
Hungary Internet Tax

When the people in power try to make the internet more expensive and less free, one way for the public to respond is by gathering up all the obsolete computing equipment that's lying around and start hurling it at government buildings. That's exactly what the people of Budapest did yesterday. The world is struggling to figure out to future of

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The US Is Now Involved In 134 Wars

Or none, depending on your definition of ‘war’.

September 22nd, 2014
Timothy McGrath
September 22nd, 2014
By Timothy McGrath
In this photo taken on Sunday, March 17, 2013, and released by the South Korean Navy via Yonhap on Monday, March 18, 2013, South Korea and U.S. warships participate in their joint military drill Foal Eagle in South Korea's West seaAP Photo/South Korea Navy via Yonhap)

The White House spent much of last week trying to figure out if the word "war" was the right one to describe its military actions against the Islamic State. US Secretary of State John Kerry was at first reluctant: "We're engaged in a major counterterrorism operation," he told CBS News on Sept. 11. "I think war is the wrong terminology and

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