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 […]
Month
Category
- Africa (139)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (770)
- Australia (4)
- Authoritarianism (133)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (396)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (198)
- Dissent (266)
- Economy (613)
- Education (66)
- Elderly (3)
- Energy (989)
- Environment (1,355)
- Europe (716)
- Featured (2,393)
- fiction (5)
- Food (7)
- Guns (9)
- History (210)
- Human Rights (943)
- Immigration (17)
- International (746)
- Islamophobia (288)
- Juan Cole (265)
- Latin America (64)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (357)
- Middle East (6,866)
- Arab World (4,472)
- Iran (830)
- Israel (672)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,789)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (259)
- Turkey (422)
- military (103)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (99)
- NATO (5)
- Natural Disasters (11)
- nuclear weapons (45)
- Patriarchy (2)
- Peace (68)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (22)
- Poverty (8)
- privacy (19)
- racism (281)
- Rape (5)
- religion (780)
- Rights (125)
- Romance (1)
- science (102)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (21)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (20)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (258)
- Terrorism (1,017)
- Tolerance (4)
- Uncategorized (8,033)
- United Nations (65)
- Urbanization (3)
- US Foreign Policy (500)
- US politics (3,357)
- Anti-War Movement (5)
- Campaign Finance (25)
- Censors (21)
- Central Intelligence Agency (56)
- Civil Rights (76)
- Congress (23)
- Constitution (280)
- crime (4)
- Democratic Party (481)
- Democratic Socialists of America (10)
- Domestic Terrorism (15)
- Drone Warfare (24)
- Espionage (113)
- Ethnicities (232)
- Far Right (157)
- FBI (35)
- Foreign Policy (200)
- Gay Rights (12)
- Guns (63)
- Immigration (177)
- Israel Lobbies (76)
- Marijuana (1)
- Militarization (209)
- National Security State (367)
- Native Americans (21)
- Nuclear arsenal (5)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (299)
- Police (20)
- prison reform (4)
- Puerto Rico (25)
- Religious Right (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (2,018)
- Supreme Court (43)
- Voter suppression (19)
- Whistleblowers (4)
- Xenophobia (7)
- Veterans (22)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (252)
- Western Religion (359)
- White Supremacists (53)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (275)
- workers (124)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (117)
Archives for 2016
Can Trump destroy the Environmental Protection Agency & the Environment . . . using the EPA?
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 Admits to Using Illegal UK Cluster Bombs in Yemen
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 […]
Trump’s Jerusalem embassy Move an Invitation to Terrorism: 9/11 Provoked in part by Israeli Occupation
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. […]
SNL Cold Open: Trump as Manchurian Candidate
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”
Trump’s Sec of State pick Tillerson chief of US-Russian Oil Company in Tax Haven
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 […]
Israeli Squatters at Palestine’s Amona accept relocation to other Palestinian-owned Land
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 […]
Point by Point Response to Likud Party Propaganda
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. […]
Sorry, Trump, you can’t bring back Coal when Solar costs half as Much
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 […]
© 2020 All Rights Reserved