He wore many hats: an American Sheriff and patriot; an ambassador who released hostages in Tunis; an Ashkenazi who declared…
U.N. Security Council Demands Cease-Fire
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday that demands an “immediate cessation of hostilities” in conflict zones…
Palestine is described as resembling “Swiss cheese”
The current map of Palestine is often described as resembling “Swiss cheese”. Over the past century it has been carved…
Corpus separatum v. Jerusalem Law
Corpus separatum (‘separated body’) was the Jerusalem area in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. According to the plan, the city would…
Hachalu Hundessa, more than a singer/entertainer
Seven people have died in Ethiopia in protests that followed the shooting dead of musician Hachalu Hundessa, well known for…
Israel’s Annexation Plan Dims Hope For PEACE
On July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to commence the process to annex Jewish settlements and the Jordan…
Americans See Conspiracy Theories in COVID News
64% of U.S. adults say CDC mostly gets the facts about the outbreak right; 30% say the same about Trump…
Facts Proving White Privilege in the U.S.
– Black people are less than 13% of the U.S. population, and they make up only 14% of regular drug…
Sky Lore of the Hopi Tribe
Almost everyone can identify the Big Dipper, but many don’t realize it’s actually part of a larger constellation known as…
Belgium’s King Leopold II murdered 20,000,000
In the period from 1885 to 1908, many well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the…
Urfa man – the oldest sculpture of a human
The Urfa man, also known as the Balıklıgöl statue, is an ancient human shaped statue found in excavations in Balıklıgöl near Urfa, in…
America, The Nation Of Hypocrites
American don’t like to be called out for being hypocrites. You know, those people who pretend to have virtues, moral…
Crow Creek massacre
The Crow Creek massacre occurred around the mid 1300s CE between Native American groups at a site along the Missouri River in the South Dakota area;…
Belarus opposition protests end in arrests
Police in Belarus have detained demonstrators and journalists at a gathering of hundreds of people protesting President Alexander Lukashenko’s re-election…
Dred Scott v. Sandford – black not American citizen
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in which the Court held…
Juneteenth – Texas finally gives up slavery, last
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it…
Way to go on this one – Chief Justice John Roberts
Chief Justice John Roberts saved Obamacare in 2012 — a move forever earning him the wrath of many Republicans —…
Trump Told China To ‘Go Ahead’ With Prison Camps
Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping that he endorsed Beijing’s now-infamous archipelago of prison camps for minority Uighurs, John Bolton writes…
Bolton: Trump sought Xi’s help with re-election
Trump tried to get China’s Xi Jinping to help him secure re-election, ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new book says.…
Police Unions are the key obstacle to real reform
A growing chorus of voices has been identifying police unions as the key obstacle in the way of meaningful police…
