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Archives for October 2018

Israel
Israeli PM Netanyahu warns of Plot to Topple him, as Rivals charge Paranoia

Israeli PM Netanyahu warns of Plot to Topple him, as Rivals charge Paranoia

AFP

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Jewish state’s president and a former minister of conspiring to have him toppled, triggering charges of “paranoia” ahead of elections. “I know that a former Likud minister has been holding discussions with the coalition and concocted a subversive plot, with me winning a large […]

Green Transportation
Tesla’s Electric Car has Historic Quarter, seeks to conquer China & Europe

Tesla’s Electric Car has Historic Quarter, seeks to conquer China & Europe

Glenn Chapman

San Francisco (AFP) – Electric car maker Tesla on Wednesday reported an “historic” quarterly profit driven by demand for its mass market Model 3, as the company looks beyond its US home base to Europe and China. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said he expects the company to stay profitable from this point forward, and […]

War
All America’s Quagmires:  Why We’re still at War in so Many Countries

All America’s Quagmires: Why We’re still at War in so Many Countries

William J. Astore

( Tomdispatch.com) – As America enters the 18th year of its war in Afghanistan and its 16th in Iraq, the war on terror continues in Yemen, Syria, and parts of Africa, including Libya,Niger, and Somalia. Meanwhile, the Trump administration threatens yet more war, this time with Iran. (And given these last years, just how do […]

Qur'an
Juan Cole on "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace" @ Zero Hour (Video)

Juan Cole on “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace” @ Zero Hour (Video)

Juan Cole

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

Patriarchy
The real Mob?  Consider Kavanaugh, Trump and the other Spoiled Rich Gangbangers

The real Mob? Consider Kavanaugh, Trump and the other Spoiled Rich Gangbangers

Tomdispatch

By Robert Lipsyte | – – (Tomdispatch.com) – Brett Kavanaugh’s hellish Supreme Court fraternity pledge week offered many lessons, but the most powerful, if least noted, was about the raising of boys in America — all boys, not just the groomed Georgetown elite from which the judge emerged. Too many boys are raised in packs, […]

Featured
Will its Renewables Revolution  Give China an Edge over the US?

Will its Renewables Revolution Give China an Edge over the US?

Juan Cole

The Asia-Pacific is poised for 355 GW in New Solar, 43 GW in Offshore Wind in the next Decade

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia in "Crisis" following Khashoggi's Killing, says Minister

Saudi Arabia in “Crisis” following Khashoggi’s Killing, says Minister

Middle East Monitor

“Davos in the desert,” was boycotted by a long list of investors, international policymakers and heads of multi-national companies

African-Americans
Georgia Election shows that Dixie Tradition of Black Voter Suppression Flourishing

Georgia Election shows that Dixie Tradition of Black Voter Suppression Flourishing

The Conversation

By Frederick Knight | – Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s midterm election that his office has not approved 53,000 voter registrations – most of them filed by African-Americans. Kemp, who is running for governor against Democrat […]

Far Right
CNN’s Zucker Slams Trump’s attacks on Media, Rivals after Pipe Bombs

CNN’s Zucker Slams Trump’s attacks on Media, Rivals after Pipe Bombs

AFP

by Jennie MATTHEW, with Saul Loeb in Mosinee New York (AFP) – Pipe bombs were sent Wednesday to Barack Obama, top Democrats and CNN, hate figures for Donald Trump supporters, while the US president tempered calls for unity by attacking the media for its “endless hostility.” Democrat and Trump foe Hillary Clinton was one of […]

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