For the World Community, Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter

For the World Community, Palestinian Lives Don’t Matter

Throughout its sordid history, Israel turned the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and especially Gaza into free-fire zones – killing, injuring, maiming, and otherwise brutalizing Palestinians with impunity. The world community doesn’t care about Palestinian lives and welfare – doing nothing to stop Israeli occupation harshness, nothing to hold its officials accountable for Nuremberg-level high crimes,…

World, Dump US Debt! You’ve Got Nothing to Lose but the Chains

World, Dump US Debt! You’ve Got Nothing to Lose but the Chains

As Russia steadily slashes its military spending and announces cuts will continue for the next five years through 2022, the US is going in the other direction and shoveling ever more fantastic sums of money into the military and parasite defense corporations. (Around half of Pentagon budget now goes to contractors.) US Congress passed a $1.3 trillion…

Ethiopia: “Deceptive Facelift” or “Full-Blown Change”?

Ethiopia: “Deceptive Facelift” or “Full-Blown Change”?

The election of Abiy Ahmed, the Muslim leader of the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO), by the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) as the party’s chairman and presumably the country’s next Prime Minister could be more than just a “deceptive facelift” and might hint that full-blown change is on the horizon so long as…