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Archives for October 2018

Saudi Arabia
Turkey: Saudis “Not Cooperating” on Khashoggi Probe; Trump Threatens Riyadh

Turkey: Saudis “Not Cooperating” on Khashoggi Probe; Trump Threatens Riyadh

Stuart Williams

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey on Saturday accused Saudi Arabia of failing to cooperate with a probe into the disappearance of a journalist inside its Istanbul consulate, as US President Donald Trump threatened Riyadh with “severe punishment” if it turns out he was killed. Comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu represented a hardening of Ankara’s […]

Climate Change
Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court orders Gov't to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically

Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court orders Gov’t to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically

Juan Cole

An appeals court in the Netherlands has upheld a 2015 lower court ruling in a class action case that the Dutch government needs to do more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. So far the Netherlands has only reduced 13% from 1990 levels. The court appealed to the principle […]

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Media Meet Collapses after Khashoggi Murder, but Trump Wants Business

Saudi Media Meet Collapses after Khashoggi Murder, but Trump Wants Business

AFP

By Clare BYRNE and Fabien ZAMORA | – Paris (AFP) – Donald Trump claims he is being “very tough” with Saudi Arabia and Britain has warned of “serious consequences”. But besides demanding the truth about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the West is likely to continue doing business as usual with the Gulf kingdom, […]

Yemen
Yemen: Saudi-led War, Climate Change Creating Disastrous Water Shortage

Yemen: Saudi-led War, Climate Change Creating Disastrous Water Shortage

Global Voices

By Romy Haber | – ( Global Voices Online) – Yemen, the stage of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, is facing a severe water crisis: 16 million people lack access to clean water in the country, according to UNICEF. “What is worse than not having the most basic human right, water?” […]

BDS
NZ Boycotters Ridicule Israeli Court Fine for Lorde Cancellation

NZ Boycotters Ridicule Israeli Court Fine for Lorde Cancellation

Middle East Monitor

BDS: “Israel has no right to police the political opinions of people across the world”

Featured
On not Writing Recommendation Letters for the Occupiers in Palestinian Territories

On not Writing Recommendation Letters for the Occupiers in Palestinian Territories

Juan Cole

An Open Letter to the University of Michigan on Palestine

Saudi Arabia
End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia until Fate of Dissident Journalist is Known: Human Rights Watch

End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia until Fate of Dissident Journalist is Known: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch

Evidence Points to Saudi Responsibility

Islam
Did Islam grow up as a Reaction to the Survival of Paganism in the Eastern Roman Empire?

Did Islam grow up as a Reaction to the Survival of Paganism in the Eastern Roman Empire?

Juan Cole

Both the Qur’an and later Muslim sources indicate that there were controversies in Muhammad’s home town of Mecca (and perhaps elsewhere in the Near East) that began some three or four years after his initial experience of revelation in 610. If Muhammad did keep his teachings secret 610-613, then it was sometime after he began […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Illegal Blockade of Palestinian Civilians in Gaza has doubled Unemployment to 50%

Israel’s Illegal Blockade of Palestinian Civilians in Gaza has doubled Unemployment to 50%

Maan News Agency

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The General Federation of Palestinian Labor Unions reported, on Thursday, that the unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has doubled since Israel imposed a land, sea and air blockade 12 years ago. The federation said, in a statement, that while the unemployment rate had reached 27.2% before the blockade, it […]

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