Liberal View All Seemed Possible When the Sandinistas Took Power 40 years Agocounterpunch.org - Pete Dolack Image Source: Fuimos siempre ladrones nacionales – Public DomainThis week marks the 40th anniversary of the Sandinistas taking power in Nicaragua, a …
Science Moon buggies and bags of poo: what humans left on the moonThe Guardian - Ian Sample Science editorMore than half a century of lunar exploration has left its mark on the moon. What Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin described as the “magnificent desolation” of the relentlessly grey surface is littered with clapped-out
Play buttonScience 'Landing on Airwaves': Documentary Remembers Apollo 11 Moon LandingThe Atlantic - Emily Buder“It was a feeling that went throughout the world, almost like an electric bolt,” one woman remembers of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in Jonathan Napolitano’s short documentary Landing on Airwaves. The landing,
Moon Missions American astronauts on the ISS reflect on moon mission 50 years laterCBS News NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch are the closest Americans to the moon. They’re on the International Space Station about 250 miles above …
Moon Reflecting on the Moon Landing 50 Years LaterThe Atlantic - Ross AndersenNearly 50 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the lunar surface, it’s clear that Apollo 11 will haunt the human imagination for a long time to come. Editor's Note: This article is part of a series
Liberal View It Was Never Just About the Chat: Ruminations on a Puerto Rican Revolution.counterpunch.org - Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz Photograph Source: Old School WWC Fan – CC BY-SA 4.0“In the colonial context there is no truthful behavior. And good is quite simply what hurts them …
News Dutch Supreme Court upholds Srebrenica deaths liabilityAssociated Press - By MIKE CORDER, Associated PressTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court's ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosnian Serb
Iran Iran’s Not the Aggressor, the US Iscounterpunch.org It’s easy to be confused about what’s happening between the U.S. and Iran. On July 10, President Trump again accused Iran of violating the Obama-era …
Catalonia Political outrage at Spanish intelligence’s reported links to terror attack mastermindcatalannews.com - ACN In the same vein, Catalonia’s two governing parties, Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra, asked for an investigation committee over the terror attacks in …
Middle East The spectre of a Syrian SrebrenicaAl Jazeera - Refik HodzicThe dehumanisation campaign Syrians are facing is strikingly similar to the one that led to the genocide of Bosnians. Refugees are being hunted, arrested and forcibly returned to the regime they fled increasing
Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnian Muslims Mark 24th Anniversary of Srebrenica Massacrenewsmax.com SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of mourners, including relatives of the victims, are gathering for a commemoration on the 24th …
NATO 24 years on: former NATO spokesperson reflects on Srebrenica massacreEuronews - By Lindsay RempelTwenty-four years ago, in one of the darkest days of the Bosnian war, over 8,000 Bosniak Muslims were murdered by units of the Serb army. On Thursday, thousands will remember the victims of the Srebrenica
Benjamin Netanyahu Archaeologists on Twitter tear down Netanyahu's claims that Palestinians have 'no connection' to homelandmondoweiss.net - Yumna Patel The “Philistine-Palestinian” debate has been brought to the forefront again, this time by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Seemingly …
Israel Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabshaaretz.com - Hagar Shezaf Four years ago, historian Tamar Novick was jolted by a document she found in the file of Yosef Waschitz, from the Arab Department of the left-wing …
Palestine Don’t wait for Israeli archives to prove what Palestinians already know | +972 Magazine972mag.com Israeli authorities are deliberately concealing historical documents to undermine evidence of the state’s dark and violent origins. And the world is …
20th Century Israeli historian Benny Morris about the Israeli governmental cover-up of the Deir Yassin massacremondoweiss.net - Jonathan Ofir Israeli historian Benny Morris is known for his uncovering of some of Israel’s darkest secrets from the Nakba and later. Only a week ago, he was …
Ross Perot The Last Boy Scouttexasmonthly.com - R.G. Ratcliffe Long before Texans had heard of “no pass, no play,” and before free trade was a major political issue, the diminutive Dallas billionaire H. Ross …
The definitive JFK tour of Dallas, Texasmatadornetwork.com - Alicia Butler Whether you’re a history buff or a conspiracy theorist, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has fascinated Americans for decades. During a …
Environment Siestas: the British way – archive, 11 July 1934The Guardian - NAWe never experience in this country sufficient lengths of hot weather for the siesta to become a permanent institution. The midday calm of an English village, for instance, in the middle of summer has
Disease Have you got the 'Mad Cow' gene? why the disease could be about to strike againThe Telegraph - By Cara McGoogan20 years after the scandal over British beef, scientists are learning BSE can lay dormant for decades - so could Mad Cow Disease strike again? Tommy Goodwin remembers the moment his son, Grant, started
Play buttonMoon Landing The origin of moon landing conspiracy theoriesQuartz - Peter KnightBill Kaysing was a former US Navy officer who worked as a technical writer for one of the rocket manufacturers on NASA’s Apollo moon missions. He claimed that he had inside knowledge of a government conspiracy
Liberal View The Honduran Coup — One Decade Latercounterpunch.org - Nick Alexandrov Photograph Source: Roberto Breve – CC BY-SA 2.0Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Early summer. A hotel bar, a quiet night. You finish another beer. You press …
Strait of Hormuz Oil’s enduring sway over U.S. policy in the Middle East, and how it explains the Iran crisismondoweiss.net - Michael T. Klare It’s always the oil. While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G-20 summit in Japan, brushing off a …
West Bank 15 years after ICJ declared Separation Wall illegal, West Bank barrier continues to destroy Palestinian livesmondoweiss.net - Yumna Patel Tuesday July 9th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision to declare the Israeli separation wall in …
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson whitewashes Britain's crimes in Palestineelectronicintifada.net Boris Johnson – the man likely to be Britain’s next prime minister – is widely seen as an elitist buffoon. By searching a little, it is nonetheless …
Wimbledon Wimbledon’s First Fashion ScandalThe Atlantic - Kimberly Chrisman-CampbellOne hundred years ago, a player shocked spectators with her “indecent” dress—not the last time attire has distracted from athleticism in tennis. This year’s Wimbledon marks the centennial of the tournament’s
Technology How Police Surveillance Led to the Stonewall RiotsThe Atlantic - Sidney FussellEntrapment schemes targeting gay men continue across the country, but the Stonewall resistance changed their meaning. Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series about the gay-rights movement and 50th
News One of the last remaining Confederate monuments in California is vandalizedLos Angeles Times - Colleen ShalbyOne of the last remaining Confederate monuments in California was vandalized days after the Fourth of July. The Sons of Confederate Veterans monument was erected in the Santa Ana Cemetery in 2004. On it
Palestinian Authority Israel's separation wall endures, 15 years after ICJ rulingAl Jazeera - Linah AlsaafinThe separation wall, deemed illegal by ICJ, cuts into occupied West Bank territory, and will be 712km upon completion. In the occupied West Bank, the long, concrete separation wall winds through the landscape,
