“This climax of a progressive, eight-year stab-in-the-back of the US’s closest ally in the Middle East gives me the hope I need to get through these difficult times.” Chicago, December 27 – A single mother of two cradling her little ...
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“This society cannot allow its safety to be undermined by the actions of such vehicles.” Berlin, December 21 – Following the murder of 12 people and the injury of dozens more when a truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market ...
Read More »US Urges Israel To Put Amona Evacuees In Reservations
“The State should spend generations deceiving them, depriving them, and occasionally throwing them a bone or two.” Washington, December 19 – Top American diplomats recommended that Israel follow the United States’ lead in treatment of people forcibly removed from areas ...
Read More »Jewish Students In Campus Pillowfight Accused Of Disproportionate Force
“We have to protect the vulnerable population of pillow-fighters who did not ask to be hit.” Oberlin, Ohio, December 14 – A student activity intended to break the social ice and relieve some academic tension at a venerable academic institution ...
Read More »EU To Impose Strict 2-Rapes-Per-Migrant Limit
Critics of the measure expressed concern at its strictness. Malmo, December 7 – A spike in reported rapes that coincides with the influx of refugees and migrants from African and Middle Eastern countries into Europe has driven the European Parliament ...
Read More »Trump Offers To Have Mexico Also Pay For Israeli Separation Barrier
Netanyahu aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, declined to comment on the specifics of the offer. Washington, December 5 – President-elect Donald Trump continued to insist today his administration will construct a wall along the US-Mexico border and that Mexico ...
Read More »Vizzini Mum On Whether Trump Asked Him To Be Secretary Of State
Experts are divided on both the authenticity of the reports and the wisdom of the move if they are substantiated. Washington, December 1 – Representatives of an accomplished Sicilian international operator declined to offer comment on circulating rumors that he ...
Read More »In 50 Years Of Oppression, Castro Somehow Failed To Create Ideal Society
Cubans now confront the prospect of constructing a heaven-on-earth without their formidable leader’s dedication to to systematic denial of basic human rights to an entire people. Havana, November 27 – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at age 90 on ...
Read More »Licking Election Coverage Wounds, NY Times To Publish Column By ISIS Leader
“A direct encounter with what these people have to say is preferable than to have it filtered through the lens of our editorial sensibilities.” New York, November 22 – A post-election assessment of the slanted coverage the publication produced during ...
Read More »ICC Offering Reduced Sentences For States That Remain Members
Bensouda and her colleagues now face the prospect of a raft of withdrawals from the Court and the undermining of their effort to uphold international law. The Hague, November 17 – Plagued by a spate of recent withdrawals from the ...
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