Nearly 1,800 immigrant families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border from October 2016 through February of this year, according to a senior government official, as President Donald Trump implemented stricter border enforcement policies. The numbers are the first comprehensive disclosure by the administration of how many families have been affected by the policies. Previously, the […]
Archives for June 2018
With G7 in Disarray, Putin & Xi court Iran at Shanghai Cooperation Council
Qingdao (China) (AFP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday opened a regional security summit attended by Russia and Iran with boasts of the bloc’s “unity”, just as a fractious G7 gathering was mired in divisions between Europe and the US. SPUTNIK/AFP / Alexei Druzhinin. Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the bloc’s guiding ‘Shanghai spirit.’ […]
Plastic Wasteland: Asia’s Ocean Pollution Crisis
(With Asia bureaus) Thanh Hoa (Vietnam) (AFP) – A Vietnamese mangrove draped with polythene, a whale killed after swallowing waste bags in Thai seas and clouds of underwater trash near Indonesian “paradise” islands — grim images of the plastic crisis that has gripped Asia. AFP/File / Nhac NGUYEN. A mangrove forest in Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa […]
Jerusalem Day: Israeli Soldiers Harm 525 Palestinians at Gaza Rally
At least 525 Palestinians have been wounded on the Gaza border by Israeli occupation forces who violently suppressed protests as part of Al-Quds Jerusalem Day, the Ministry of Health said today. The Gaza Ministry of Health said at least seven people were in critical condition as a result of their injuries. Israeli soldiers fired tear […]
Anthony Bourdain: The Only Mensch on Gaza
Anthony Bourdain was the only major American celebrity who succeeded in depicting publicly the Palestinians as rational, caring human beings rather than as irrationally angry “inciters” to violence. He was the anti-Bernard Lewis. Lewis smeared the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims with the charge of “Islamic Rage” (as though large swathes of humankind are angry for […]
Trump widens the cracks in world order’s foundations
Quebec City (AFP) – For decades, multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, World Trade Organization and Group of Seven were widely accepted by Western governments as the best way to shore up world order. Now, with Donald Trump in the White House and his “America First” foreign policy echoed in rise of nationalist and […]
G7 Views Trump’s US as Rogue State, as France Threatens a “G6” Memo
Trump’s 17th century mercantilist trade policies are making the United States the skunk at the party at the G7 meet in Quebec on Friday. Trump will skip the session on climate change. Trump has been needling Justin Trudeau, the PM of Canada, and Emmanuel Macron, the French president. Macron is needling back: The American President […]
Widespread Fraud? Iraq Elections upended as Parliament Orders Full Recount of 11 Million Votes
By Omar al-Kateb Baghdad (AFP) – Iraq’s parliament Wednesday ordered a manual recount of the May 12 legislative elections and sacked the commission which oversaw the polls that resulted in a surprise victory for a populist Shiite cleric. After several failed attempts because of a lack of quorum, outgoing MPs met to order a recount […]
When “Infinite War” becomes a Gravy Train in the United States of Amnesia
Boston (Tomdispatch.com) – “The United States of Amnesia.” That’s what Gore Vidal once called us. We remember what we find it convenient to remember and forget everything else. That forgetfulness especially applies to the history of others. How could their past, way back when, have any meaning for us today? Well, it just might. Take […]
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