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Israel's annexation wall

lundi 25 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Israelis and Palestinians marched to condemn Israel's annexation wall, which cuts the Palestinian village of Walaje off from their farms.

This is part of a scheme of slow ethnic cleansing — as Uri Avnery put it, Israel is trying to make the West Bank "arabrein".

If the wall wasn't enough of a hint to the Palestinians that they are all supposed to flee the area, Israel demolished houses in the village.

Dam in Puerto Rico

lundi 25 septembre 2017 à 02:00

The dam at Lake Guajataca, Puerto Rico, has not collapsed, as of now. It is only leaking a lot.

FERC pipeline approval

lundi 25 septembre 2017 à 02:00

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seized on a technicality to overrule New York State, imposing approval of a pipeline which the state had refused to approve. The state is looking for a way to overturn this in court.

The FERC always approves what fossil fuel companies want.

It could be the textbook case of regulatory capture.

West Bank protests

lundi 25 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Israeli colonists in the West Bank usually just throw stones at nonviolent Israeli peace protesters, but recently they attacked the protesters directly and broke a protester's arm.

Then the soldiers who were watching the whole thing arrested the victim of the attack — the protester.

Kenya election

lundi 25 septembre 2017 à 02:00

A Kenyan court ruled that the election in Kenya must be done over.