Egypt accused Hamas of involvement in last year’s assassination of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat. Hamas rejected the claim as “politically motivated”. Egypt, historically the Palestinians’ major backer, has brokered several truces between Israel and Gaza factions and tried to heal past rifts between rival Palestinian factions. But it has intensified a blockade of Gaza by […]

He ran his predatory scams from his official, government-issued computer for more than two years, posing as a member of the fictional Google “Account Deletion Team.” He used aliases including “David Anderson” and “John Parsons”, telling victims that their email accounts would be deleted if they didn’t respond. Once he’d gained access to their Gmail […]

In the last months of his administration, President Barack Obama is giving interviews to explain how everyone else is to blame for the five-year Syrian conflict – which has supplanted the Israeli-Palestinian issue as the region’s destabilising centre and shows no sign of receding. Rather than evaluate what could be done to mitigate the damage, […]

Before Davis spoke out Thursday, Winston’s parents and supporters rallied outside Power Plant Live in downtown Baltimore, the place where they say police brutalized their son. Renee Winston says her son’s “arm is broken in three places. It even popped out of its socket,” Winston said. They were injuries, she says, that required surgery. Winston […]

The Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike on Hamas bases on Saturday, March 12, in which a 10-year-boy who lived next to one of the targets was killed, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said, according to AFP. His six-year-old sister died later of her injuries, local media reported. Their elder brother, 13, suffered moderate […]

Nonetheless, most U.S. media reports contained nothing more than quotes from U.S. officials about what happened, conveyed uncritically and with no skepticism of their accuracy: The dead “fighters … were assembled for what American officials believe was a graduation ceremony and prelude to an imminent attack against American troops,” pronounced the New York Times. So, […]

“Bernie has not only urged Vermonters to vote “yes” in union representation elections like CWA’s 1994 campaign among 1,500 telephone company call center workers, he would annually convene meetings of local labor activists to help them develop more successful union-building strategies. To stimulate new rank-and-file thinking, Sanders and his staff invited out-of-state labor speakers who […]

Senator Whitmire is a huge gun control activist who recently spoke out against the open campus carry law. This may have had something to do with the shooting, and quite the perfect way to get the message across. The event occurred overnight at the office of Sen. John Whitmire and police are still investigating exactly […]