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Archives for September 2018

Israel/ Palestine
Jared Kushner is Wrong: Collective Punishment of Palestinians will not Lead to Peace

Jared Kushner is Wrong: Collective Punishment of Palestinians will not Lead to Peace

Middle East Monitor

“false reality” and it will most surely lead, not to peace, but to an even greater tragedy

China
US Ports Hurting from Trump’s anti-China Trade War, Warn of Severe Crisis in Six Months

US Ports Hurting from Trump’s anti-China Trade War, Warn of Severe Crisis in Six Months

AFP

“We can probably take another six months, but at some point it’s going to be very hard to face the situation.”

Far Right
Bannon Promises ‘War Rooms’ to install Far Right in European Elections

Bannon Promises ‘War Rooms’ to install Far Right in European Elections

AFP

By Franck IOVENE Rome (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday said he would set up “war rooms” across Europe to help form a pan-continental right-wing movement ahead of European Parliament elections in 2019. Speaking at the congress of the Italian far-right Fratelli d’Italia party, Bannon called for people across […]

Donald Trump
How Rosenstein's Firing Could lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets

How Rosenstein’s Firing Could lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets

Juan Cole

The New York Times reports that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein talked about wearing a wire to record Trump’s insane prattering, and spoke of invoking the 25th amendment, which allows the cabinet to remove the president if he is incapacitated. Rosenstein’s office says that the remarks were facetious. They were recorded in memos by former […]

Supreme Court
Sen. Collins “Appalled” as Trump Taunts Dr. Blasey Ford for not Filing Police Report at 15

Sen. Collins “Appalled” as Trump Taunts Dr. Blasey Ford for not Filing Police Report at 15

AFP

By Sebastian Smith | – Washington (AFP) – The woman whose sexual assault allegation threatens to bring down Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee rejected an ultimatum Friday for testifying in the Senate after the US president turned against her, claiming her accusation could not be true. The increasingly ugly fight over the fate of Trump’s […]

Syria
Syrian Extremist Militias Reject Turkey-Russia Agreement, Will Attack Syrian Troops

Syrian Extremist Militias Reject Turkey-Russia Agreement, Will Attack Syrian Troops

Middle East Monitor

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that Syrian armed factions have rejected an agreement reached by Turkey and Russia on setting up a demilitarised zone between the armed opposition and Syrian government troops in Idlib as of 15 October. The Observatory said in a statement that the factions of Religious Guards Ansar Al-Tawheed, […]

Israel/ Palestine
Spain to Recognize Palestinian State, work for European Union Acceptance

Spain to Recognize Palestinian State, work for European Union Acceptance

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Spain has become the latest country to voice its readiness to recognize the State of Palestine and that it will promote a European Union (EU) move to recognize Palestine as an independent state. Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, spoke at a conference of EU leaders in Austria, saying that the […]

Syria
Israel Asserts it can Bomb Syria at Will despite Downing of Russian Plane

Israel Asserts it can Bomb Syria at Will despite Downing of Russian Plane

AFP

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel’s coordination with Russia on its attacks in Syria remains unchanged despite the deadly downing of a Russian plane, and the Jewish state retains its right to decide on military actions, an Israeli official said Friday. Syrian air defences mistakenly shot down the military plane following an Israeli raid on Monday night, […]

Featured
The GOP is after Kerry for Iran Meetings, but has a Long History of  Covert Foreign Scandals

The GOP is after Kerry for Iran Meetings, but has a Long History of Covert Foreign Scandals

Juan Cole

Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and now Florida Senator Mario Rubio this week attacked former Secretary of State John Kerry for meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif this past winter and spring for conversations about ways of preserving the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). Former secretaries of […]

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