TeleSur | – – The number of U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan has already dramatically spiked since Trump took office in January. Fighter pilots at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan are preparing for more air attacks after President Donald Trump announced his plans for a new war strategy last week. After a months-long review […]
Archives for August 2017
Is Israel’s Netanyahu preparing for War on Iranian Special Ops in Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu filled the ear of visiting UN secretary general Antonio Guterres with complaints about Iran and Hizbullah on the latter’s visit to the region. He complained that the UN border patrol, UNIFIL, in South Lebanon, has not reported the thousands of rockets […]
Remember GOP in Texas opposing Aid for NY after Sandy? Now they want Aid
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Ted Cruz, who voted against a relief package for states impacted by Hurricane Sandy, urged President Trump on Friday to quickly deliver aid to Texas When Hurricane Sandy slammed New York, New Jersey, and a number of other states in 2012, Ted Cruz and […]
White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville
By George Joseph | ProPublica | – – Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right” rally joked about using vehicles to run over their opponents. That message and thousands of other conversations among white supremacists […]
The worst flooding disaster in Recorded US history?
The Watchers | – – Category 4 Hurricane "Harvey" made landfall around 03:00 UTC on Saturday, August 26, at Rockport, Texas with winds of 215 km/h (130 mph). It then stalled over the coast of central Texas, dumping extreme amounts of rain. Harvey is the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005, ending a record […]
Top 5 ways Man-made Climate Change made Hurricane Harvey much Worse
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at IC wish all those affected a speedy and safe return to normality. Extreme weather events are associated with climate change, and whenever they occur, they raise the question of their relationship to that process. […]
Was Hate’s Reach into US Public Extended by Internet?
James E. Hawdon | (The Conversation) | – – Extremism has always been with us, but the internet has allowed ideas that advocate hate and violence to reach more and more people. Whether it’s the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville or the 2015 Charleston church massacre, it’s important to understand the internet and […]
Barcelona: Nearly 500K march for Peace, against Islamophobia
TeleSur | – – Marchers, on Saturday, displayed signs and banners with various slogans. Some read, “No to Islamophobia,” “The best response: Peace,” and “I’m not afraid.” Almost half a million people have taken to the streets in the Spanish city of Barcelona to condemn violence following recent terrorist attacks in Spain. Emergency workers, police […]
Trump’s Organized Chaos: Channeling the Dictators – And Their Lieutenants
By Shalom Goldman | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump was vying for the Republic nomination, and even more so after he won the nomination and was running for office, some of his most alarmed critics compared him to Adolf Hitler. These claims were not restricted to the American fringe (in all of […]
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