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Archives for June 2018

Yemen
Yemen: Saudi-Led Attack on Hodeida Displaces Nearly 5,000, Endangers 70% of Food Imports

Yemen: Saudi-Led Attack on Hodeida Displaces Nearly 5,000, Endangers 70% of Food Imports

Fawaz al-Haidari

Yemeni pro-government forces, backed by Saudi Arabia, battled Huthi rebels around the key port city of Hodeida on Sunday

Poverty
Being Poor in an America run by Billionaires and Hemorrhaging War Budgets

Being Poor in an America run by Billionaires and Hemorrhaging War Budgets

Beverly Gologorsky

Americans who barely made it through the recent recession now find themselves in conditions (in supposed good times) that seem to be worsening

Donald Trump
Why do Evangelicals Keep Falling for the Trumps and Nixons?

Why do Evangelicals Keep Falling for the Trumps and Nixons?

Randall J. Stephens

Evangelical leaders should be wary of hitching their wagon to an amoral, corrupt president

Featured
With new pro-Iran Iraq Coalition, Tehran Outmaneuvers Trump-Saudi-Israeli Axis

With new pro-Iran Iraq Coalition, Tehran Outmaneuvers Trump-Saudi-Israeli Axis

Juan Cole

Trump allegedly complained to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that after the 2015 nuclear deal, the Iranians “think they can do anything they want”

Israel/ Palestine
Agency: A Grassroots Nonviolent Palestinian Movement is Israel's worst Nightmare

Agency: A Grassroots Nonviolent Palestinian Movement is Israel’s worst Nightmare

Yaser Alashqar

Palestinian leaders can respond to US policy by pursuing full and equal rights for all its citizens

Immigration
America’s Asylum for Refugees under Trump (Cartoon)

America’s Asylum for Refugees under Trump (Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol

Via: Jamiol’s World – Get Paul Jamiol’s latest book of political cartoons, Hatred Rising

Iran
French Auto Maker Renault decides to Stay in Iran, Fight Trump Sanctions

French Auto Maker Renault decides to Stay in Iran, Fight Trump Sanctions

AFP

Renault will maintain its presence in Iran while taking measures to avoid the risk of penalties for breaching renewed US sanctions

Saudi Arabia
Retro Saudi Soap Opera set in Imaginary “Unveiled, Liberal” 1970s Infuriates Hardliners

Retro Saudi Soap Opera set in Imaginary “Unveiled, Liberal” 1970s Infuriates Hardliners

Middle East Monitor

With scenes of unveiled women and mixed-sex musical soirees, a new Saudi Arabian soap opera is evoking nostalgia about the kingdom’s modern past

Donald Trump
Americans won’t ‘Sit Up’ for Great Leader Trump, because They Don’t Approve of Him

Americans won’t ‘Sit Up’ for Great Leader Trump, because They Don’t Approve of Him

Juan Cole

Fully 58% of Americans say that they have no or almost no areas of agreement with Trump

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