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Archives for October 2018

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What’s Behind the Rise of 784 Influential Hate Groups in the US?  Depends on Where

What’s Behind the Rise of 784 Influential Hate Groups in the US? Depends on Where

Wyatt Massey

(Yes! Magazine) – Organized hate groups span all geographic areas of the United States, from White nationalists in Washington state to neo-Nazis in Alabama to radical traditionalist Catholics in New Hampshire. While persecution of classes of people happens everywhere, the drivers that push people to join hate groups are unique to specific places. In this […]

Featured
Irony: Nobel Peace Prize for anti-Rape Activist, as US Senate puts Alleged Abuser on Highest Court

Irony: Nobel Peace Prize for anti-Rape Activist, as US Senate puts Alleged Abuser on Highest Court

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If the allegations of Professor Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh are true, then he was a juvenile criminal. He and a friend plotted out how to get girls inebriated, force them into an upstairs side room, turn up the music to drown out screams, jump on top of them, […]

Supreme Court
At Least Heidi Heitkamp refused to Vote for Kavanaugh: Why I'm not Surprised

At Least Heidi Heitkamp refused to Vote for Kavanaugh: Why I’m not Surprised

Gail Ukockis

(Informed Comment) – On October 4, Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) announced that she was going to vote “no” on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Unlike her colleague Jeff Flake who is quitting the Senate, Heitkamp is taking a grave political risk. North Dakota, which had had a 40-point lead for Trump […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters Busted Stealing Olives from Palestinian Farm

Israeli Squatters Busted Stealing Olives from Palestinian Farm

Middle East Monitor

Olive-Growing is 20% of the West Bank Palestinian Economy

Israel
Israeli Police question PM Netanyahu over Corruption, Blackmai for 12th Time

Israeli Police question PM Netanyahu over Corruption, Blackmai for 12th Time

Middle East Monitor

Netanyahu stands accused of accepting lavish gifts from two influential businessmen in return for favourable legislation and personal favours

Featured
If Brett Kavanaugh were African-American, Would he be Going to Jail instead of to SCOTUS?

If Brett Kavanaugh were African-American, Would he be Going to Jail instead of to SCOTUS?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Brett Kavanaugh may or may not be an attempted rapist, but one thing is clear. The Republican senators are according him all the honors of white privilege. That includes a presumption of innocence that statistically speaking, white juries do not accord African-American defendants. One in every six women in the […]

women
Thousands of Women Descend on Washington Protesting Kavanaugh: “Women must be Heard!”

Thousands of Women Descend on Washington Protesting Kavanaugh: “Women must be Heard!”

AFP

by Issam AHMED | – Washington (AFP) – Jessica Cathcart, a 24-year-old from California, says university professor Christine Blasey Ford inspired her to speak up about her own sexual assault, which took place when she was in high school. Angela Trzepkowski, 55, from Delaware, says she would be devastated if Brett Kavanaugh, accused by Blasey […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump Dumps Int’l Court of Justice Protocol to avoid Losing to Palestine on Jerusalem

Trump Dumps Int’l Court of Justice Protocol to avoid Losing to Palestine on Jerusalem

AFP

Bolton: “we expect all other parties to abide by their international obligations”

Republican Party
Top Republicans Determined to Confirm Kavanaugh to Supreme Court on Saturday

Top Republicans Determined to Confirm Kavanaugh to Supreme Court on Saturday

AFP

Washington (AFP) – Top Republicans voiced confidence Thursday that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the US Supreme Court this weekend, as they asserted that an FBI probe had found nothing to support sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump’s nominee. “Judge Kavanaugh should be confirmed on Saturday,” Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the chairman […]

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