Uri Avnery: casino mogul Sheldon Adelson commands Netanyahu as well as US Republicans; he is behind Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress.

The newly approved GM apple is designed not to turn brown when it gets old. That way, stores selling precut apples can hold on to them for days and you won't be able to tell.

Other possible dangers of the GM apple.

SWAT teams, which consist of thugs that are effectively soldiers, carry out 50,000 raids a year in the US. Nearly all of them are unnecessary. A retired thug chief suggests how to demilitarize the thugs.

That won't make America safe from thugs — thugs without military weapons kill plenty of Americans — but it is an important reduction in the danger.

The US is moving towards reapproving oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea, disregarding the danger of spills.

UK officials claimed a treaty with France prevented prosecution of HSBC tax evaders, but French officials responded out that there is no such limit in the treaty.

Those right-wing sellouts are fabricating excuses again.