Gangster Diplomacy: How Netanyahu is Provoking Armed Intifada in the West Bank

Netanyahu’s new political agenda is motivated by his own survival, at the expense of peace and stability in the region.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
A Man Without a Strategy: Netanyahu Provoking Armed Intifada Feature photo

After signing a military decree on May 18, allowing illegal Israeli Jewish settlers to reclaim the abandoned Homesh settlement located in the northern Occupied West Bank, the Israeli government has informed the US Biden Administration that it will not turn the area into a new settlement. The latter revelation was reported by Axios on May 23.

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On The Fast Track to Extinction: Can Humanity Survive?

The threat faced by humanity is not the multitude of complex social, political, economic and technological forces precipitating our rush to extinction, it is our dysfunctional individual and collective psychological state, perhaps a much more vexing problem to solve.

Robert J. Burrowes
By Robert J. Burrowes
A still from the 2009 film, The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name.

Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens are on the fast track to extinction, most likely sometime between 2025 and 2040. For a taste of the evidence in this regard focusing on the climate, see ‘Climate Collapse and Near Term Human Extinction’, ‘What

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We’re Human Fodder Caught In The Crossfire Of Armed Groups And Armed Governments

The elite 1% of armed groups and armed governments are waging economic, environmental and military wars against the people! They, and perhaps we ourselves too, have lost our imagination and empathy.

Dr. Teck Young
By Dr. Teck Young
Gul Jumma on the right.

“Her father was killed in Helmand amidst fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan/U.S.-NATO forces,” said a relative about Gul Jumma, who looked down, shy and full of angst, sensing a future that’s not promising. Gul Jumma, together with the Afghan Peace Volunteers, expressed their opposition to wars in this video. Gul Jumma holds up the sign

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Philippines And Muslim Rebel Group Sign Peace Deal

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government signed a peace accord with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group on Thursday, the culmination of years of negotiations and a significant political achievement for President Benigno Aquino III. The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government signed a peace accord with the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Thursday, the culmination of years of negotiations and a significant political achievement for President Benigno Aquino III. The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in

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Sri Lanka Fights Against UN Civil War Inquiry

GENEVA (AP) — Sri Lanka on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-led call for accountability after the U.N.’s top human rights official recommended an international criminal investigation of abuses from the island nation’s civil war that ended in 2009. U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay has recommended that the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council authorize an “independent international inquiry” […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — Sri Lanka on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-led call for accountability after the U.N.'s top human rights official recommended an international criminal investigation of abuses from the island nation's civil war that ended in 2009. U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay has recommended that the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council authorize an

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Day 1,102: Turkey Shoots Down Syria Plane While Clashes Erupt In Beirut

No good news today.

Heather Horn
By Heather Horn

Today is Day 1,102 of the Syria conflict. Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who's got his own problems at present — announced Sunday that Turkish fighter jets shot down a Syrian warplane earlier today after it violated Turkish airspace. A Syrian military spokesman, unsurprisingly, called this an act of "blatant aggression," saying

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