Like almost all conflicts that have occurred in Israel, this latest war in Gaza has provoked a furious debate. Was Israel's ground and air assault on the Gaza Strip justified by Hamas's rocket attacks? Or were Hamas's rocket attacks a justifiable response to Israel's arrest of hundreds of Hamas supporters and officials?

" Billionaire Blasts Companies That Jump Overseas To Duck Taxes: 'I'm Selling Your Stock'" Share: CREDIT: AP As more and more American corporations have used mergers and shell companies to shift profits and shrink their U.S. tax liabilities over the past few years, there has generally been a sharp divide between populists who decry the maneuvers and investors who celebrate them.

SPEAKING FREELY How Israel turned tragedy into opportunity By Justin Schwegel Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. On June 12, three Israelis settlers [1] were murdered by two Palestinian extremists.

Israeli intelligence officials used gag orders in recent weeks to stifle reporting on the initial investigations into both the abduction and the killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem.

Other automakers, you, too, can build like Tesla. CEO Elon Musk says so. Tesla is now an open-source company, allowing its electric vehicle patents for outside use. Musk made the unprecedented announcement Thursday on his company's blog. "Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport," he wrote.

A mother of seven children was serving a two-day sentence in prison when she was found dead in her cell. An autopsy is being conducted and jail officials say they "don't suspect foul play," but that isn't really the point. The tragedy here is what led the woman to be placed into prison in the [...]

Sandra Fluke, the women's rights activist who gave Rush Limbaugh heartburn, is one step closer to becoming an elected official in California. Fluke finished second behind Ben Allen, a fellow Democrat, in Tuesday's primary race for a state Senate seat in southern California. They both advance to the Nov.

Income inequality in the United States and elsewhere has been worsening since the 1970s. The most striking aspect has been the widening gap between the rich and the rest. This ominous anti-democratic trend has finally found its way into public consciousness and political rhetoric.

Richard Clarke, the nation's top counterterrorism official under former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, accused Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney of committing war crimes in their 2003 invasion of Iraq during an interview Tuesday with Democracy Now! that will air next week.

BILL MOYERS: Barack Obama told us there would be no compromise on Net neutrality. We heard him say it back in 2007, when he first was running for president. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: To seize this moment we have to ensure free and full exchange of information and that starts with an open Internet.

Here in the United States, we fret a lot about global warming denial. Not only is it a dangerous delusion, it's an incredibly prevalent one. Depending on your survey instrument of choice, we regularly learn that substantial minorities of Americans deny, or are sceptical of, the science of climate change.

Two FDNY EMTs who had to intervene to stop four police officers beating a handcuffed patient on a stretcher have turned the cops in to authorities, the Daily News has learned. The emotionally disturbed patient was punched multiple times in the face by the cops on July 20, according to FDNY documents obtained by The News.

The US government's web of surveillance is vast and interconnected. Now we know just how opaque, inefficient and discriminatory it can be. As we were reminded again just this week, you can be pulled into the National Security Agency's database quietly and quickly, and the consequences can be long and enduring.

An appeal to garner support for Gaza which imitates the wildly popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge but uses rubble and dirt instead of cold water is picking up steam on social media. "I have to do something and to send a message all over the world about Gaza," said Ayman al Aloul, a journalist who started the so-called Rubble Bucket Challenge on Saturday.

The problem, you see, is that America is exceptional. The police in and around Ferguson have shot and killed twice as many people in the past two weeks (Mr Brown plus one other) as the police in Japan, a nation of 127m, have shot and killed in the past six years.