Israeli opposition leader Avi Gabbay has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down over reports that he spied on a number of security officials, Israeli media has reported. On Thursday night, an investigative news program reported that Netanyahu in 2011 had asked the head of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, to monitor […]
Archives for June 2018
Spain: After 7 Years of Conservative Corruption, Austerity, Socialists come to Power
by Patrick RAHIR | – Madrid (AFP) – Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez will be sworn in as prime minister on Saturday, a day after ousting Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote in parliament sparked by fury over his party’s corruption woes. Sanchez, a 46-year-old economist with no government experience, will take the oath of […]
Hate Speech Advocate, who got Roseanne Barr Fired, Running Trump Mideast Policy
In the brouhaha about Roseanne Barr being fired by ABC/Disney for a racist tweet, the actual origins of her weird outburst against Obama aide Valerie Jarrett were most often passed over. In her tweet, Barr said “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes = VJ.” She later apologized to Jarrett for the gibe. But where […]
In Remote Iraqi town, US Troops and Iran-Backed Militias are already Facing Off
Baghdad (Niqash.org) – Locals in Al Qaim, Anbar, worry that the current stable security situation can’t last. It’s being upheld by US troops and Iran-allied militias, whose antipathy toward one another is becoming more overt all the time. Iraqi troops searching a secret IS base near Al Qaim. (photo: Iraqi Ministry of Defence). The people […]
Syria’s Assad gives Kurds option of Negotiation or War, Demands US Leave
Damascus (AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned US-backed Kurdish forces he would not hesitate to use force to retake the third of the country they control. “The only problem left in Syria is the SDF,” Assad told Russia Today in an interview aired Thursday, referring to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces which has […]
Don’t forget to Duck! Advice to College Graduates in the Trump Apocalypse
New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Class of 2018, I’ve always been told that a joke’s a good way to launch any talk. It’s a matter of breaking the ice, though on your graduation day, with the temperature soaring into the upper eighties, that may not be the perfect image. Still, you know what I mean: an […]
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