BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian diplomats have filed an official complaint against Israel, alleging breaches of Israel’s obligations of the United Nations’ anti-racism treaty. The 350-page document was handed to the Geneva office of the United Nations that is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention. Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi accused […]
Archives for April 2018
Dubai-based Company Hired Iraq War Black Ops Exec to Smear Qatar in Film
By Jessica Purkiss and Abigail Fielding-Smith | (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) | – – This story was published in partnership with The Daily Beast. Their version can be found here. The former CEO of Bell Pottinger USA was given over $500,000 to produce a six-part film linking Qatar with global terrorism A veteran of […]
Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods
By Mariëtte Le Roux | – – Paris (AFP) – California will zigzag between droughts and floods which will become more intense and more frequent in the coming decades unless global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are checked, researchers said Monday. The Golden State has already experienced a rapid rise in such “whiplash” events — […]
Militarizing the US Border Frontier for Fun and Profit
By Todd Miller | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I suddenly noticed what […]
Is Mike Pompeo Soft on White Terrorism Against Muslim Immigrants?
The Senate Foreign Relations committee narrowly voted in favor of former CIA director Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State on Monday, after President Trump called up Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and convinced him to change his negative view to a positive one. Those pundits who expressed confidence that GOP Libertarians and traditionalists would foil Trump’s […]
Kabul Mourns Loss of ‘Invincible Hero’ in Anti-Shiite Suicide Blast
by Usman Sharifi | – – Kabul (AFP) – Whenever suicide attackers struck his fellow Shiites in Kabul, Wakil Hussain Allahdad would drop what he was doing and rush to the scene to help rescue survivors and carry away the dead. But on Sunday Allahdad himself became a victim, fatally wounded in the devastating blast […]
Dozens killed in Saudi-led air raid on Yemen wedding: medics
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 […]
Are US Middle East Policies against the Law?
The American foreign policy in the Middle East since the demise of the Soviet Union has oscillated between neoliberal and neoconservative interventionism. Both strategies have had long-term detrimental consequences for the United States’ national interest and the peoples in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Fundamentally, both strategies ignore the welfare of the […]
Who Made Our Students Into Debt Slaves?
By John Buell | (Informed Comment) | – – Periodically the so- called deficit hawks, a club whose membership includes prominent members of both parties, warn us of the dire consequences of burgeoning government debt. Many propose such harsh remedies as balanced budget amendments. Yet while these warnings and draconian responses are commonplace, one of […]
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