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Archives for April 2018

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine takes Israel to UN Racism Commission for Apartheid Policies

Palestine takes Israel to UN Racism Commission for Apartheid Policies

contributors

The PA had warned Israel of forthcoming Apartheid charge if it continued to expropriate the West Bank.

Qatar
Dubai-based Company Hired Iraq War Black Ops Exec to Smear Qatar in Film

Dubai-based Company Hired Iraq War Black Ops Exec to Smear Qatar in Film

contributors

The latest contract underscores growing concerns about foreign influence campaigns in the heart of Washington.

Climate Change
Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods

Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods

contributors

California’s recent severe drought may have only been a taste of things to come.

Militarization
Militarizing the US Border Frontier for Fun and Profit

Militarizing the US Border Frontier for Fun and Profit

contributors

Our Southern border is becoming “a remote deathscape where American necropolitics are pecked onto the bones of those we deem excludable.”

Featured
Is Mike Pompeo Soft on White Terrorism Against Muslim Immigrants?

Is Mike Pompeo Soft on White Terrorism Against Muslim Immigrants?

Juan Cole

The CIA director seems unaware that the majority of people harmed by terrorism in the US since 2002 have been victims of white nationalism.

Afghanistan
Kabul Mourns Loss of ‘Invincible Hero’ in Anti-Shiite Suicide Blast

Kabul Mourns Loss of ‘Invincible Hero’ in Anti-Shiite Suicide Blast

contributors

Salafi Jihadi extremists target Afghan Hazaras in Hopes of Provoking More Sectarian Conflict

Yemen
Dozens killed in Saudi-led air raid on Yemen wedding: medics

Dozens killed in Saudi-led air raid on Yemen wedding: medics

contributors

Sanaa (AFP) – Dozens were killed and wounded in an air raid on a wedding party in Yemen, local officials said Monday, with Huthi rebels blaming a Saudi-led military coalition. The Iran-backed rebels who control most of northern Yemen blamed Sunday’s attack on the Arab coalition that backs the country’s government, in the latest in […]

Foreign Policy
Are US Middle East Policies against the Law?

Are US Middle East Policies against the Law?

Ali Abootalebi

The United States has a long history of foreign policy interventionism in the name of peace but in violation of political realism.

Education
Who Made Our Students Into Debt Slaves?

Who Made Our Students Into Debt Slaves?

contributors

The originators of student loans argue that they operate within a free market, but they depend on a strong state to succeed.

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