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Archives for December 2016

Donald Trump
How We Can fight back against Trump's Anti-EPA

How We Can fight back against Trump’s Anti-EPA

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a slap in the face of every American who cares about the environment in this country. Pruitt has repeatedly sued the EPA for doing its job. He is a climate change […]

Plutocracy
Billionairocracy:  Trump didn’t drain the Swamp, he is Drowning us in it

Billionairocracy: Trump didn’t drain the Swamp, he is Drowning us in it

contributors

By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – Given his cabinet picks so far, it’s reasonable to assume that The Donald finds hanging out with anyone who isn’t a billionaire (or at least a multimillionaire) a drag. What would there be to talk about if you left the Machiavellian class and its exploits for […]

Israel/ Palestine
Barghouthi: Israel’s Legitimizing Squatter Settlements a Declaration of War on Palestinians

Barghouthi: Israel’s Legitimizing Squatter Settlements a Declaration of War on Palestinians

contributors

By IMEMC | – – Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa al-Barghouthi, on Tuesday, said the legitimization of settlement outposts, by the Israeli Knesset, is “a war on the Palestinian people.” In a press statement, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative said that the misappropriation of private Palestinian land in favor of illegal settlements amounts to “a […]

Donald Trump
German Advertisers pull ads from Breitbart, having seen this Picture

German Advertisers pull ads from Breitbart, having seen this Picture

contributors

TeleSur | – – The decision to drop advertising from the far-right mouthpiece came on the back of a “No Money for The Right” campaign. German companies are the latest to pull their advertising from website Breitbart, whose former director, Steve Bannon, is now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. The companies, including car manufacturer BMW, […]

Featured
Syria unlikely to be Partitioned:  The Resilience of Colonial Borders

Syria unlikely to be Partitioned: The Resilience of Colonial Borders

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem could be resolved by a partition of that country. It is as though they think the parties to the war are like squabbling children in the back seat of the […]

Donald Trump
Hating on "Foreigners" a key Plank of Trumpism: Can it be Fought?

Hating on “Foreigners” a key Plank of Trumpism: Can it be Fought?

contributors

By Ngaire Woods | (Project Syndication) | – – The New Xenophobia: OXFORD – Democratic governments in the West are increasingly losing their bearings. From the shift toward illiberalism in Poland and Hungary to the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, a particularly lethal strain […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Israel's Blockade of Gaza Is Killing Women with Breast Cancer

How Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Is Killing Women with Breast Cancer

contributors

TeleSur | – – Since Israel began its siege of Gaza in 2007, hundreds of people have died needlessly, various reports state. Hundreds of Palestinian women with breast cancer are being routinely blocked from seeking treatment by Israel officials, reports from Gaza’s health ministry state. “Israel is killing me slowly,” one woman told The Electronic […]

China
How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big

How China will run rings around Trump on Green Energy, and Win Big

contributors

By Matthew Kahn | (The Conversation) | – – In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent some of its clearest signals yet that it will continue to pursue an international leadership role on issues including climate. At an international climate change summit in Marrakech, the Chinese government reasserted its commitment to […]

Featured
More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies

More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Both regime sources and the Britain-based Syria Observatory said Tuesday that the Syrian Arab Army and its Shiite militia allies from Lebanon and Iraq had taken the district of Shaar in the East Aleppo pocket. In the past two weeks rebel forces have lost the northeast […]

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