While Republicans wax outraged over Obama’s handshake with Raúl Castro at the Mandela memorial, US client state Israel offers a far better analogy to apartheid South Africa.
Dozens of Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces opened fire to disperse protests against the Israeli occupation and commemorating Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 thanks to CIA intelligence, and only removed from the US "terrorist watch list" in 2008—15 years after his Nobel Peace Prize.
Now the US government can only find one other country that’s willing to back its embargo on Cuba. Even tiny Palau has jumped ship.
The Israel Air Force was reportedly responsible for an attack on a military base in the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting a Russian missile shipment bound for Hezbollah.
Municipality officers escorted by Israeli soldiers issued demolition warrants for thousands of Palestinian homes in two East Jerusalem neighborhoods.
Top UN and EU officials denounced the renewed plans for Israeli settlements announced by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of the Interior.
Israeli air-strikes targeted the northern Gaza Strip after militants fired rockets into Israel—the first such exchanges in over two months.
Locals at Beit Awwa, a West Bank village in the Hebron district, set fire to an Israeli watchtower during clashes with the army.
Obama's UN speech pledged: "We will ensure the free flow of energy" from the Middle East. Yet intervention risks a conflagration that could threaten imperial control of the oil reserves.
Anti-war voices in the US raise nonsensical slogans like "No war in Syria!"—blind to two million refugees, 100,000 dead, bombs falling on schools, and acts of genocide.
Israeli forces razed several buildings in two East Jerusalem neighborhoods, summarily evicitng the families under the pretext that the homes were built without a license.
