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Archives for May 2017

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Talks Dems, Trump, Palestine, Syria (AJ+)

Bernie Sanders Talks Dems, Trump, Palestine, Syria (AJ+)

contributors

Dena Takruri | (AJ+) | (Video News report) | – – “Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.” AJ+: “Bernie Sanders Talks Democrats, President Trump, Palestine And Syria”

Donald Trump
Fake President

Fake President

contributors

By Neal Gabler | ( Billmoyers.com) | – – Donald Trump is master of perception, altering reality to distract the public from his lack of character. President Donald Trump shows an executive order entitled, “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch” after signing it beside members of his Cabinet in the Oval Office on March […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel to vote on Bill making it a "Jewish State," demoting Arabic

Israel to vote on Bill making it a “Jewish State,” demoting Arabic

contributors

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli cabinet committee approved a contested bill on Sunday seeking to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish state into the country’s central legislation, sparking concern the heightened discrimination Palestinians would face should it become law. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted unanimously to move the […]

Donald Trump
End the Imperial Presidency:  Do we Really Want Trump Assassinating and Launching Wars at Will?

End the Imperial Presidency: Do we Really Want Trump Assassinating and Launching Wars at Will?

contributors

By Andrew Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad — from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to […]

Featured
It was ISIL, not Hackers, who Hijacked French Election

It was ISIL, not Hackers, who Hijacked French Election

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – That hackers, most likely Russia-linked, were trying to throw the French election to Marine Le Pen this weekend by releasing thousands of emails from her opponent Emmanuel Macron, probably struck too late to achieve their goal. They were counting on the rule that candidates may not […]

Health
GOP Rep. Labrador: "Nobody dies b/c they don't have... Health Care"

GOP Rep. Labrador: “Nobody dies b/c they don’t have… Health Care”

contributors

DeMarco Morgan | (CBSN) | (Video News Report) | – – “An Idaho lawmaker is facing intense scrutiny after defending the GOP health care bill. During a town hall, Rep. Raul Labrador said that “nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.” CBSN’s DeMarco Morgan has more.” 1. CBS News: “Idaho lawmaker faces […]

Climate Change
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic

Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic

contributors

By Jane Palmer | Mosaic, the science of life | – – A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world and climate change is making it worse. Jane Palmer meets the doctors who are trying to understand it and stop it. By 10 am in the sugarcane fields outside the town of […]

Far Right
As Russians Hack, France decides if it Hates Foreigners

As Russians Hack, France decides if it Hates Foreigners

contributors

Richard Fogarty | (The Conversation) | – – On April 24, the day after her second-place finish in the first round of the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen thundered against her opponent, Emmanuel Macron, declaring, “Nothing in Monsieur Macron’s plan, nor anything in his behavior indicates the least evidence of love for France.” (Update […]

Climate Change
Wind Power and the quest for 100% Renewables in age of Trump

Wind Power and the quest for 100% Renewables in age of Trump

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Are some major industrial countries only a decade or two from getting all their electricity from non-fossil fuel sources? Since it is the industrialized world that produces most of the deadly, toxic carbon dioxide that is poisoning our planet through the greenhouse effect, ameliorating the crisis […]

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