By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at nursery and was scrolling through Twitter, when I spotted a video of another mother’s two children. The youngest was a one-year-old boy, the same age as my own youngest; the […]
Archives for October 2017
In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The “Voice of Iraq” reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces and Kurdish Peshmerga paramilitary personnel to the south of the city of Kirkuk. The report is sourced to Peshmerga officers who declined to have their names used. For their part, […]
Nearly 300 dead in Somalia Terrorist Attack (largely ignored by US TV News)
TeleSur | – – “In our 10-year experience as first responders in Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin Ambulance service posted on Twitter. Somali officials say the death toll from Saturday’s truck bombing in Mogadishu has risen to 276, with another 300 people injured. Medical personnel in the Somali capital have described […]
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump’s mood swings mean a dangerous new era of foreign policy. Every few years — sometimes four, sometimes eight — America’s political mood swings from one pole to another. […]
Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico
Marc Anthony calls Trump approach to Puerto Rico disaster “tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful”
SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as “It” devours Anderson Cooper
Horrific satire on Trump’s chief obfuscator
Under Trump, Gitmo continues to Gnaw away at tattered US Rule of Law
Extra-Judicial denial of habeas corpus or trial leaves ‘Enemy Combatants’ in Limbo
Yes, White Supremacists, some Vikings were Muslims & Thor was Brown
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The archeological identification of stylized Arabic text for God (Allah) and Ali (the prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law) in burial garments of the Vikings in Sweden has thrown white supremacists into a tizzy. While the garments could just be the result of trade with the Middle […]
Oklahoma’s Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)
Hydraulic Fracturing implicated in severe seismic activity and plus it releases heat-trapping gas methane
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