Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks) | – – “Up until this week we were asking the question, “Can Bernie Sanders ever catch up to Hillary Clinton?” After today we have to ask a new question: Can Hillary Clinton ever catch up to Bernie Sanders again? Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think […]
Archives for August 2015
Saudi-led war in Yemen provokes Humanitarian Crisis, 1.2 mn. displaced
By Kitty Stapp | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Doctors Without Borders . . . is warning that the violence in Yemen “has radically increased” since March, with the humanitarian group seeing mass casualties from bombings and thousands of severely injured. “Especially in Aden, the situation has been extremely difficult, […]
Petition Calling For Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Arrest Goes Viral
By IMEMC | – – A British petition demanding the arrest of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upon his arrival in the UK next month, went viral in just a few days. A petition entitled “Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he arrives in London” is available at a petitions website […]
Memo to Jeb Bush: It was W’s Surge that created ISIL, not Hillary
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jeb Bush very unwisely went after Hillary Clinton last night on the grounds that her Iraq policies gave us Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Bush may think he is cleverly pulling a Karl Rove, attacking his opponent on her strong point (foreign policy), as Rove swiftboated John Kerry […]
Straws in the Wind: Obama has likely already won re: Iran Deal
By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) | – – Republicans have derided President Obama as weak and incompetent for years. Summer 2015 is shaping up to be pay-back time. As President Obama played the Iran issue with his usual cool, he managed to tie an iron noose around the GOP’s neck. Hawks are losing the […]
Trump: My Iran Deal would be 100x Better, I’d Make World Obey
CNN | (New Day Video Report) | – – “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks to CNN’s New Day about the nuclear agreement with Iran.” CNN: “Donald Trump: My Iran nuclear deal would be 100 times better”
Why is the GOP listening to Netanyahu on Iran? They just hate Obama & anything he does
Hamid Zangeneh | (Informed Comment) | – – We have been bombarded with a great deal of punch and counterpunch with regard to the nuclear deal reached between Iran and 5+1 countries. It is somewhat difficult to separate facts from fictions, especially when it comes from fear-mongers/warmongers who oppose the deal. Here are some general […]
Where did the anti-War Movement go?
By Tom Englehart | ( Tomdispatch.com) Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I’m not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer […]
If it’s going to push us to War, is it time for AIPAC to register as foreign Agent?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Most polls show that Jewish Americans are the Americans most enthusiastic about the diplomatic deal reached at Vienna between Iran and the UN Security Council over its civilian nuclear enrichment program. So the umbrella group of lobbyists supposedly dedicated to representing Jewish Americans, the American Israel […]
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