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Archives for December 2016

Israel Lobbies
Jewish Students and Scholars Object to US Bill Banning Criticism of Israel

Jewish Students and Scholars Object to US Bill Banning Criticism of Israel

contributors

By IMEMC | – – Jewish scholars and students have released statements urging the US House of Representatives and President Obama to reject the controversial “Antisemitism Awareness Act”. In a recent initiative by US based organization Jewish Voice for Peace, Jewish scholars and students signed statements urging both the House of Representatives, as well as […]

Climate Change
Can Trump destroy the Environmental Protection Agency & the Environment . . . using the EPA?

Can Trump destroy the Environmental Protection Agency & the Environment . . . using the EPA?

contributors

By Robert Percival | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump’s election has jolted environmentalists and voters who care about conservation. Trump has called for abolishing or greatly shrinking the Environmental Protection Agency; declared climate change a Chinese hoax; and promised to “cancel” the Paris climate agreement. Though Trump appears to have backed off his […]

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia Admits to Using Illegal UK Cluster Bombs in Yemen

Saudi Arabia Admits to Using Illegal UK Cluster Bombs in Yemen

contributors

TeleSur | – – “If Saudi forces are prepared to use cluster bombs, then why is the U.K. continuing to arm and support the regime?” a campaigner asked. Saudi Arabia admitted Monday it used illegal U.K.-made cluster bombs in Yemen as the Gulf state continues its aggressive air campaign there, backed with the help of […]

Featured
Trump's Jerusalem embassy Move an Invitation to Terrorism:  9/11 Provoked in part by Israeli Occupation

Trump’s Jerusalem embassy Move an Invitation to Terrorism: 9/11 Provoked in part by Israeli Occupation

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Incoming President Trump has repeatedly pledged to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and he just proposed the appointment of a Zionist supremacist as ambassador to Israel, who equates American Jews who oppose squatting on Palestinian land in the West Bank as collaborators with the Nazis. […]

Donald Trump
SNL Cold Open: Trump as Manchurian Candidate

SNL Cold Open: Trump as Manchurian Candidate

contributors

NBC’s Saturday Night Live | (Satiric Video Clip) “President-elect Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) receives a surprise visit from Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Rex Tillerson (John Goodman).” SNL “Donald Trump Christmas Cold Open – SNL”

Donald Trump
Trump’s Sec of State pick Tillerson chief of US-Russian Oil Company in Tax Haven

Trump’s Sec of State pick Tillerson chief of US-Russian Oil Company in Tax Haven

contributors

By Jon Queally, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Leaked documents show Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State is director of subsidiary based in Bahamas Documents leaked to a German newspaper reveal that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next Secretary of State, has been the quiet director […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters at Palestine’s Amona accept relocation to other Palestinian-owned Land

Israeli Squatters at Palestine’s Amona accept relocation to other Palestinian-owned Land

contributors

Ma’a News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Residents of the illegal settlement outpost of Amona in the central occupied West Bank voted on Sunday to approve a relocation plan put forward by the Israeli government, after weeks of discussions trying to assuage settler anger over the mandated evacuation of the outpost. Israeli news […]

Israel/ Palestine
Point by Point Response to Likud Party Propaganda

Point by Point Response to Likud Party Propaganda

contributors

By Jeffrey Rudolph | ( Detailed Political Quizzes ) | – – As Israel’s myriad human rights abuses and contraventions of international law have become impossible to deny, one argument that apologists for Israel routinely fall back on is: While Israel has engaged in human rights and other abuses, other countries commit far worse abuses. […]

Climate Change
Sorry, Trump, you can't bring back Coal when Solar costs half as Much

Sorry, Trump, you can’t bring back Coal when Solar costs half as Much

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bloomberg released a new report this week with some startling findings about solar energy. To wit: * Solar energy can now be generated for about half the cost of coal. Coal had been the cheapest energy source, but it has now been overtaken by solar. That […]

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