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Archives for July 2018

Pentagon
The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

The only Infrastructure Rebuilding Trump is doing is $700 Bn for the Pentagon

Tomdispatch

A combination of fear, ideology, and influence peddling radically skews “debate” there in favor of military outlays above all else

Mexico
Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?

Leftist Wave sweeps Mexico: Can Lopez Obrador take on Corruption, Poverty… & Trump?

Reese Erlich

Lopez Obrador also benefited from widespread voter anger at the establishment political parties

Health
Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes!  Air Pollution and Blood Glucose

Burning Fossil fuels Even Causes Diabetes! Air Pollution and Blood Glucose

AFP

Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, according to a US study

Syria
Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor

AFP

A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday

Donald Trump
Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration

Trump Luminaries at Iranian Jihadi Cult Conference in Paris while Excluding Nice Iranians from Immigration

Juan Cole

Many Trump stalwarts have a peculiar, paid position as lobbyists for a group aiming to overthrow the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Left Politics
Not Extreme: Sanders' and Ocasio-Cortez's Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party

Not Extreme: Sanders’ and Ocasio-Cortez’s Leftism has been core to the Democratic Party

John Buell

Many positions viewed as “extreme” by beltway pundits today were mainstream through much of the 20th century

Israel
As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan

As Assad Advances on South, Israel Warns Syrian Army away from Occupied Golan

Middle East Monitor

Israel beefed up its tank and artillery deployment on the Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Sunday, a statement said

Inequality
Why the Supreme Court's Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality

Why the Supreme Court’s Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality

Sam Pizzigati

The Supreme Court’s decision in Janus will leave the United States still more unequal.

Turkey
Is Turkey headed for Stongman Rule?

Is Turkey headed for Stongman Rule?

Arzu Geybullayeva

For all the support he enjoys, Turkey is more divided than ever

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