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Israeli intel vets speak out

vendredi 12 septembre 2014 à 14:00

43 veterans of Israel's military intelligence (equivalent to the NSA in the US) denounced their work as a system of oppression and political manipulation rather than a matter of national security.

The full text of their letter.

Quotes from their personal testimonies: The fact people were innocent was not at all relevant.

Reversal of ozone hole growth

vendredi 12 septembre 2014 à 14:00

The ban on chlorofluorocarbons is starting to reverse the former growth of the ozone hole.

Clinton's push for fracking

vendredi 12 septembre 2014 à 14:00

How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World.

Urgent: Stop funding global heating denial

vendredi 12 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Everyone: call on Google, Microsoft and others to stop supporting global heating denialists.

If the US goes to war with ISIS

jeudi 11 septembre 2014 à 14:00

If the US goes to war with ISIS, how long before Americans conclude that it was a mistake?

ISIS is evil enough that fighting ISIS is not inherently wrong. The same was true for Saddam Hussein — but launching a war against his regime made things worse in Iraq, and the same thing could easily happen again.

Thwarting ISIS in a conventional war of movement is easy. Destroying ISIS would mean an urban guerrilla war, which would be horrible (as it was 8 years ago in the same part of Iraq) and would not succeed. To really defeat ISIS requires convincing Iraq's Sunnis to kick ISIS out.