Paris (AFP) – France plans to introduce a penalty system next year that would increase the costs of consumer goods with packaging made of non-recycled plastic, part of a pledge to use only recycled plastic nationwide by 2025, an environment ministry official said Sunday. Brune Poirson, secretary of state for ecological transition, said the move […]
Archives for August 2018
Saudi Arabia’s Arrest of Women’s Rights Activists puts it on Wrong Side of History
From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable
Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress
In a political arena dominated by White, mostly straight men, Davids – a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter – is aiming high. Sharice Davids, who won the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Kansas on Tuesday, is poised to become one of the first Native American women in the U.S. Congress and the first […]
Palestinian-Israelis and Jewish-Israelis Stage Huge Protest against Apartheid Law
By Majeda El-Batsh Tel Aviv (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Arab Israelis and their supporters chanted against “apartheid” and for “equality” on Saturday in central Tel Aviv at a rally protesting a law that declares Israel the nation state of the Jewish people. Israeli Jews also joined the demonstration, the second since last Saturday, […]
Trump’s “Space Force”: More ‘Whitey on the Moon’
Repurposed. If they can keep proposing the same brain dead policies, I can keep writing the same article. Trump and Pence want to spend $8 bn to establish a new branch of the US armed forces, the Space Force. I have enormous respect of the US military. My father was a 20-year man. Two of […]
Trump Tweets help Crash Turkish Currency as Pres. Erdogan Lashes Out
Turkish strong man Tayyip Erdogan is complaining about Donald Trump’s playing hard ball with his country, at a time when the Turkish lira is collapsing more dramatically than at any time since 2001, before the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) came to power. Turkey’s currency has lost a third of its value against the […]
What Jared Kushner’s ‘Deal of the Century’ Would Mean for Palestinian Refugees
By Anne Irfan | – – Leaked emails from Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and appointed steward of the Israel-Palestine conflict, are shedding light on his planned “deal of the century” for peace in the Middle East. In extracts published by Foreign Policy magazine, Kushner proposes “disrupting” the work of the UN Relief and Works […]
Dubai Jails Swedish Woman, Daughter, for one Glass of Wine on Flight
Update: Ms. Holman has been released and Dubai has apologized. -JC, 8/12/18 A mother and her four-year-old daughter were detained for three days in Dubai for drinking a glass of wine on a flight from London, according to rights group Detained in Dubai. Ellie Holman, 44, was arrested at Dubai International Airport after being asked […]
Nationalist Cleric Sadr and Communist Allies wins Iraq Vote Recount
Baghdad (AFP) – Nationalist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s alliance won Iraq’s May parliamentary election according to a manual recount, the electoral commission said Friday, paving the way for a government to be formed nearly three months after the vote. Allegations of fraud prompted the supreme court to order a partial manual recount, but Sadr’s joint […]
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