That question above is both meaningful – and meaningless. A paltry “Day of Peace” — this year, Saturday 21 September — insults the efforts of those who work year-round for something approximating “peace”. Or, at least, who work in multiple ways to promote more intelligent evidence-based possibilities to contain, if not resolve, conflict, and to Continue reading »
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In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.
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Since 2021, Israeli soldiers have met weekly protests in the West Bank village with deadly force.
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The movement counts among its ranks many disillusioned Arab and Muslim voters in the key swing state of Michigan.
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Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.
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Experts on international law pointed to the indiscriminate nature of the blasts in Lebanon and the prohibition on booby traps.
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Something absolutely stupefying is happening in Germany: its iconic auto company, VW, the darling of every Chancellor from Adolf Hitler to Olaf Scholz, appears to be in a death spiral. At the end of this story I’ll draw a link to the salutary lesson countries like Australia and New Zealand need to draw from the Continue reading »
Donald Trump inherited a strong economy from President Barack Obama and managed it poorly. Real GDP grew more slowly under Trump than it had under any president since World War II. He was the only president since then to preside over a fall in the number of workers with a job. In 2016, the United Continue reading »
Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.
The post A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up appeared first on The Intercept.
So far, no one has been able to hold the notorious Israeli spyware firm accountable for complicity in human rights abuses.
The post These Human Rights Defenders Were Hacked by Pegasus. Now They Want Police to Charge the Spyware Maker. appeared first on The Intercept.