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Archives for September 2018

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55% of GOP say Sexual Assault not Disqualifying for SCOTUS; What is *Wrong* with Them?

55% of GOP say Sexual Assault not Disqualifying for SCOTUS; What is *Wrong* with Them?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – What in the world is wrong with self-identified Republicans in the United States. I mean, look, I’m a historian and a world traveler. I get that different people have different ways of looking at the world, different norms and customs. It is to be expected. But the blatant amorality of […]

Supreme Court
SNL: Matt Damon Rakes Kavanaugh over Coals as Angry, Hysterical, Privileged Drunk

SNL: Matt Damon Rakes Kavanaugh over Coals as Angry, Hysterical, Privileged Drunk

Saturday Night Live

I’M HERE BECAUSE OF A POLITICAL CON JOB ORCHESTRATED BY THE CLINTONS, GEORGE SOROS, KATHY GRIFFIN AND MR. RONAN SINATRA

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Israeli Snipers Murder 7 unarmed Protesters, send 210 to Hospital, including 35 Children

Gaza: Israeli Snipers Murder 7 unarmed Protesters, send 210 to Hospital, including 35 Children

Maan News Agency

Thirty five children, four women, four paramedics and three journalists were among injuries

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine Sues in Int’l Court of Justice to stop Trump move of Embassy to Contested Jerusalem

Palestine Sues in Int’l Court of Justice to stop Trump move of Embassy to Contested Jerusalem

AFP

The ICJ was asked to declare that moving the embassy to occupied Jerusalem constituted a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Authorities call Real Madrid Team Indirect Terrorists for giving Ahed Tamimi a Shirt

Israeli Authorities call Real Madrid Team Indirect Terrorists for giving Ahed Tamimi a Shirt

AFP

According to top Spanish sports daily Marca, she was offered a Real Madrid jersey and posed for photos with Emilio Butragueno

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15 Years after US Occupied Iraq, it is too Unsafe for Trump Admin to keep a Consulate There

15 Years after US Occupied Iraq, it is too Unsafe for Trump Admin to keep a Consulate There

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A little over 15 years after the United States invaded and occupied Iraq on false pretences, the Department of State has been forced to close the US consulate in Basra because the US cannot guarantee its security. Basra has been roiled this summer by huge protests against lack of services […]

rape
Blasey Ford Cued Survivors to Speak out, from Jeff Flake's Elevator to Alyssa Milano

Blasey Ford Cued Survivors to Speak out, from Jeff Flake’s Elevator to Alyssa Milano

Charlotte Plantive

there was a 201 percent increase in calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline on Thursday

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Turned Down 2,173 Gaza Requests for Treatment Outside in Aug., 20% Cancer Sufferers

Israel Turned Down 2,173 Gaza Requests for Treatment Outside in Aug., 20% Cancer Sufferers

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A fifth or 20% of medical applications submitted in August by patients in the besieged Gaza Strip were denied, by Israel, a permit to leave for medical treatment in East Jerusalem or Israeli hospitals were for cancer patients, according to a monthly report by the World Health Organization (WHO). On Thursday, WHO […]

Yemen
In Midst of Saudi-US war on Yemen, Doctors Despair as Babies die in ‘Orphaned Province’

In Midst of Saudi-US war on Yemen, Doctors Despair as Babies die in ‘Orphaned Province’

AFP

Daleh (Yemen) (AFP) – At Nasr Hospital’s emergency room in the Yemeni city of Daleh, a little boy struggles to breathe. He is too tired, or too hungry, to cry. Born with a degenerative neurological disease, his muscles have atrophied to nothing, his tiny joints visible through his pale skin, his stomach distended. The child’s […]

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