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Archives for October 2018

Saudi Arabia
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Top Trump Ally, Warns on Ties if Saudi State Murdered Journalist Khashoggi

Sen. Lindsey Graham, Top Trump Ally, Warns on Ties if Saudi State Murdered Journalist Khashoggi

AFP

Washington (AFP) – A top Senate ally of President Donald Trump warned Monday of a “devastating” impact on the US alliance with Saudi Arabia if allegations are confirmed that the kingdom killed a prominent journalist. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Riyadh must provide “honest answers” after a Turkish government source said that the Saudis killed […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel to Build World’s Largest Desalinization Plant as Occupied Palestinians Thirst for Water

Israel to Build World’s Largest Desalinization Plant as Occupied Palestinians Thirst for Water

Maan News Agency

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Ministry of Finance announced that it had received bids from seven various groups to build the world’s largest desalination plant, which will be able to produce about 200 million cubic meters of water per year. The ministry said, in a statement to the Reuters news agency, that the tender is […]

Climate Change
Fate of 190,000-years-old Human Race depends on Massive Greening Effort over just 30 Years

Fate of 190,000-years-old Human Race depends on Massive Greening Effort over just 30 Years

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It strikes me as darkly humorous that we, the most intelligent species ever to have evolved on earth, homo sapiens (evolved circa 190,000 years ago), were so clever that around 1750 we started burning so much wood, coal and later on oil and natural gas that we started changing our […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Chronic Occupation depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Access to Health Care: WHO

Israeli Chronic Occupation depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Access to Health Care: WHO

Maan News Agency

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in its annual report, “Right to Health: Crossing Barriers to Access Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2017,” that Israeli restrictions were the major obstacle to health access for Gaza patients. The report examined obstacles to achieving the highest attainable standard of health for Palestinians […]

Corruption
Israel PM Netanyahu’s Wife Goes on Trial for Corruption and Fraud

Israel PM Netanyahu’s Wife Goes on Trial for Corruption and Fraud

Stephen Weizman

Jerusalem (AFP) – The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on trial Sunday for allegedly using state funds to fraudulently pay for hundreds of meals, part of a list of legal troubles facing the family. The start of Sara Netanyahu’s trial was the latest chapter in a saga intensely scrutinised in Israel but […]

Iran
Further Trump Admin. Descent into Lawlessness if it rejects Int’l Court of Justice Ruling on Iran

Further Trump Admin. Descent into Lawlessness if it rejects Int’l Court of Justice Ruling on Iran

Jan Hennop

Co-Author: Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK The Hague (AFP) – The United States will confront Tehran at the UN’s top court on Monday over billions in frozen assets, in a case that could deepen the Trump administration’s rift with international justice. Iran had dragged Washington before the International Court of Justice in June 2016 to oppose a […]

Featured
Plutocratic Coup: Top Six Ways a Kavanaugh Court will Take us back to the Dark Ages

Plutocratic Coup: Top Six Ways a Kavanaugh Court will Take us back to the Dark Ages

Juan Cole

Despite the considerable cloud over his head, Brett Kavanaugh was put on the Supreme Court on Saturday, in what may best be described as a plutocratic coup by the ruling-but-minority Republican Party. Since Kavanaugh succeeds Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often served as a swing vote on those occasions when a decision veered to the left, […]

Saudi Arabia
Turkey says Saudi Authorities Murdered Dissident Khashoggi in Istanbul Consulate

Turkey says Saudi Authorities Murdered Dissident Khashoggi in Istanbul Consulate

AFP

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish police have concluded that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi mission in Istanbul after going missing Tuesday, an unnamed government official said Saturday. “Based on their initial findings, the police believe that the journalist was killed by a team especially sent to Istanbul and who left the […]

Iran
Iran Calls on Saudi Arabia for Regional Security Cooperation in face of Trump Insults

Iran Calls on Saudi Arabia for Regional Security Cooperation in face of Trump Insults

Middle East Monitor

“This is the reward of the illusion that security could be achieved through external support”

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