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Archives for September 2018

Yemen
Five Million Children Risk Famine in Saudi-led War on Yemen

Five Million Children Risk Famine in Saudi-led War on Yemen

AFP

Sanaa (AFP) – More than five million children are threatened by famine in war-torn Yemen as prices soar, a charity said Wednesday, warning an entire generation may face death and “starvation on an unprecedented scale”. The three-year conflict between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels linked to Iran has pushed the already impoverished country to […]

Featured
Trump's China Tariffs on Solar backfire; American Natural Gas hurt, as US PV sales Soar

Trump’s China Tariffs on Solar backfire; American Natural Gas hurt, as US PV sales Soar

Juan Cole

(Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump’s 30% tariff on Chinese-made solar panels turns out not to have had as severe an impact on the industry as had been feared. Trump was attempting to slow renewables growth in favor of Big Carbon–natural gas and coal, but he failed spectacularly. As it turns out, the Chinese are […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Cost of Exposing Israel's Illegal Squatter Settlements

The Cost of Exposing Israel’s Illegal Squatter Settlements

Eric Goldstein

Activists Face Intimidation, Violence, and Arrest for Peaceful Protests

Left Politics
Bernie Sanders & Yanis Varoufakis call for Progressive Front against Trump’s Neo-Fascist International

Bernie Sanders & Yanis Varoufakis call for Progressive Front against Trump’s Neo-Fascist International

Open Democracy

By Luis Martín | – Via OpenDemocracy.net Calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise of authoritarianism represented by Donald Trump. Senator Bernie Sanders, the former US presidential candidate, and Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25, are today calling on progressives worldwide to form an international movement to combat the rise […]

Yemen
Yemen's Descent into Hell:  A Saudi-American War of Terror

Yemen’s Descent into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror

Rajan Menon

(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with seven other Middle Eastern and North African states, have been waging in Yemen since March 2015, with fulsome support from the Pentagon and American weapons galore. It’s got everything. Dead children in the dozens, a […]

Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans displaced to Mainland by Hurricane, Trump Neglect, abandoned by FEMA

Puerto Ricans displaced to Mainland by Hurricane, Trump Neglect, abandoned by FEMA

Ceclia Butini

New York (AFP) – They arrived in New York from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island in September 2017, leaving widespread devastation in its wake and a death toll that would spiral to almost 3,000. A year on, Joannelly Cruz and her mother Gloria Martinez are in a homeless shelter, part of a […]

Donald Trump
US, having created 4 mn Refugees in Iraq, Slashes Immigrant cap to 30,000

US, having created 4 mn Refugees in Iraq, Slashes Immigrant cap to 30,000

Juan Cole

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the Trump administration would slash refugee admissions to 30,000 in 2019, down from 45,000 in 2018 and from 85,000 in fiscal 2016. Refugees come in numbers to the US when there is a crisis in their own country. At the same time, US policies toward refugees in […]

Uncategorized
Rape:  The Credibility of the Accusers

Rape: The Credibility of the Accusers

Gail Ukockis

(Informed Comment) – When a psychology professor stepped forward to share her story of an alleged assault by the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, more than one commentator noted the academic credentials of Doctor Blasey. As a professor myself, I can appreciate the privilege of being taken more seriously than the average person. When another […]

Syria
Putin agrees with Erdogan to Spare Syria’s Idlib from Assault if Radical Fighters Withdraw

Putin agrees with Erdogan to Spare Syria’s Idlib from Assault if Radical Fighters Withdraw

AFP

By Maria PANINA | – Sochi (Russia) (AFP) – Moscow said Monday there would be no assault on Syria’s Idlib as the leaders of Russia and Turkey agreed to create a demilitarised zone around the Syrian rebel-held province. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who are on opposite sides […]

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