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Archives for November 2016

Counter-Terrorism
Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism:  Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL

Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Sting, 65, played a concert at the Bataclan Theater where ISIL terrorists killed 90 innocent people a year ago, in one of the worst attacks in the West in recent years. Although the attackers appear to have told their victims the strike was in revenge for […]

Donald Trump
Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately

Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately

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TeleSur | – – U.S. president-elect Donald Trump didn’t back down from his hardline stance on immigration Sunday in his first interview since winning the election, pledging to deport up to 3 million undocumented immigrants immediately upon taking office. “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal […]

Donald Trump
Do Trump Insiders' links to Netanyahu, Iranian political Cult, Spell Trouble for Tehran?

Do Trump Insiders’ links to Netanyahu, Iranian political Cult, Spell Trouble for Tehran?

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By Arash Aziz | ( Globalvoices.org | – – Among the foreign policy think tanks and pundits of New York and DC, few supported Trump or even countenanced the possibility of his election. Now that the dust has settled and the populist tycoon is soon to move into the White House, speculations abound as to […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel to legalize squatter outposts in Palestinian West Bank, hinting at Annexation

Israel to legalize squatter outposts in Palestinian West Bank, hinting at Annexation

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday evening unanimously approved a law that would retroactively legalize outposts in the occupied West Bank, a decision Israeli human rights group Yesh Din said “exposes (the Israeli) government’s intention to annex the West Bank to Israel without affording its residents […]

National Security State
America through the Hell-Gate of Horn

America through the Hell-Gate of Horn

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By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of order as well as domination.  So here’s the confounding thing about the American version of empire in the years when this country was often […]

Featured
As Der Donald-inspired Hate Crimes grow, US Universities at Risk

As Der Donald-inspired Hate Crimes grow, US Universities at Risk

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A tsunami of reports about hate crimes directed at minorities are coming in from all over the country in the wake of Der Donald’s presidential win. African-Americans have also been targeted, as with students at the University of Pennsylvania. As have Latinas/ Latinos. * In Wisconsin, […]

Far Right
America's Dark Underbelly is now its Face

America’s Dark Underbelly is now its Face

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By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – –

Israel/ Palestine
Spain joins US in slamming Israel’s expansion of Gilo squatter settlement

Spain joins US in slamming Israel’s expansion of Gilo squatter settlement

contributors

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The government of Spain released a statement on Friday joining the United States in condemning Israel’s recent approval of the construction of 181 new housing units in the illegal Gilo settlement in the occupied West Bank. The approval was the latest in a long line of […]

Afghanistan
Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against The Taliban

Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against The Taliban

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By RFE/RL’s Afghan Service The leader of a fledgling women’s militia in northern Afghanistan says dozens of volunteers have joined the fight since a handful of women recently took up arms to rebuff a Taliban attack on their community. Women in the district of Darz-Aab, in Jowzjan Province, initially fought alongside local forces to prevent […]

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