[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The Jewish establishment in Britain and the Israeli propaganda machine have taken out a contract on the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. The contract was taken out a long time ago, and it was clear that the closer Corbyn came to being elected prime minister,...
From Here to Home
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription In the summer of 1975, my family landed in Pennsylvania as refugees from the war in Vietnam. For a couple of months, we lived in a refugee camp at Fort Indiantown Gap. Recently I asked my father about the man who sponsored us so...
Inequality Could Be Lower Than You Think
[aggregation-styles] The Economist Subscription Even in a world of polarisation, fake news and social media, some beliefs remain universal, and central to today’s politics. None is more influential than the idea that inequality has risen in the rich world. People read about it in newspapers, hear about it from their...
Lois Henry: Lawsuit Aims to Save Desert Ag: Draft Groundwater Sustainability Plan Would End Large-Scale Agriculture in Indian Wells Valley
[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield.com Water managers trying to bring groundwater into balance in the severely overdrafted Indian Wells Valley basin near Ridgecrest laid out a draft plan last month that would essentially mean the end of large-scale agriculture in that desert region. "We are giving options to (ag) pumpers so they understand...
The Occupation Is Tearing Israel Apart. We Need the United States’ Help to End It.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Ami Ayalon is a former commander in chief of the Israeli Navy and former director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service. This article is adapted from a speech given at the J Street National Conference on Oct. 26. As someone who has spent almost my...
China Didn’t Want Us to Know. Now Its Own Files Are Doing the Talking.
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription No more denying, no more dodging. The Chinese Communist Party can no longer hide its relentless campaign of mass internment against the ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, or claim that the effort is an innocuous educational program. What was already widely...
Why Fox News Was Created
[aggregation-styles] The Week Subscription This is the editor's letter in the current issue of The Week magazine. If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create...
While We’re All Focused on Impeachment, Trump Is Upending U.S. Foreign Policy
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription While impeachment has been dominating the headlines, we are missing a set of stories about U.S. foreign policy that might prove equally consequential. The Trump administration has been doubling down on a policy of unilateralism and isolationism — a combination that is furthering the abdication...
Iran Is Offline and There’s Not Much We Can Do About It
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription On Nov. 15, the government in Tehran raised prices for gasoline — setting off a wave of protests that has yet to subside. The unrest has become so intense that the authorities decided to cut off the entire country from the Internet. That’s made it...
California Has the Most Polluted National Parks in the Country. That’s Unacceptable
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription Yosemite and most of the other national parks in California suffer from a malaise that would have sickened legendary conservationist John Muir, who reveled in Yosemite’s awe-inspiring views, among many other pleasures. “Another glorious day,” he wrote in 1911, “the air as delicious to the...