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- We Need More Swedens
Stockholm’s foreign minister urges UN human rights council to discuss report probing Gaza war despite expressed reservations as to its credibility (full article…)
- This is Zionism
“Criticism is legitimate as long as it does not border on demonization or denying our right to the land of Israel,” Edelstein told Omri Grinberg, who asked the minister whether he “immediately crosses out as irrelevant to his purposes” those who oppose “Israel’s ongoing occupation.” (more…)
- Some Good News
Sweden will allow gay couples to be legally married from next month.
- Noam Chomsky: Ossetia-Russia-Georgia
Aghast at the atrocities committed by US forces invading the Philippines, and the rhetorical flights about liberation and noble intent that routinely accompany crimes of state, Mark Twain threw up his hands at his inability to wield his formidable weapon of satire. The immediate object of his frustration was the renowned General Funston. “No satire [...]
- Elizabeth Gudrais: Unequal America
When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United States. Between 1983 and 1999, men’s life expectancy [...]
- Anniversary of the Occupation of Denmark by German Forces: April 9, 1940
Today marks the anniversary of the Nazi German invasion and subsequent occupation of Denmark in 1940—the so-called Operation Weserübung. Early that morning 68 years ago, German warships entered Copenhagen harbor in violation of a German-Danish non-aggression treaty signed the prior year. The Danish military was in no condition to pose a serious obstacle to German [...]
