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Archives for November 2018

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That Time Hannity Campaigned with Trump v. Dems & Called Press ‘Fake’

That Time Hannity Campaigned with Trump v. Dems & Called Press ‘Fake’

AFP

Fox News admitted Tuesday it was a mistake

Featured
Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today

Your Health, Social Security, and Safety Depend on Voting Democratic Today

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Today’s midterm elections are among the more fateful in recent American history, quite simply because there is a madman in the White House whom the Republican Senate and House have absolutely refused to rein in. When Barack Obama wanted to close the US gulag at Guantanamo Bay, where inmates are […]

BDS
In First, U of Leeds Divests from Firms Supplying Israel Army

In First, U of Leeds Divests from Firms Supplying Israel Army

Middle East Monitor

In the first move of its kind, a UK university has divested from companies that supply military equipment to the Israeli army following a student campaign. The University of Leeds this weekend made the decision to divest from three companies which were found to be complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights: Airbus, United […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel delivers Demolition Notices to School, 3 Structures in Hebron

Israel delivers Demolition Notices to School, 3 Structures in Hebron

Maan News Agency

HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Israeli authorities delivered demolition notices to one school and three housing structures in the Masafer Yatta area in the south Hebron hills in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, on Monday. Coordinator of a local settlement against the Israeli separation wall, Rateb al-Jbour, reported that Israeli forces stormed the Khillet […]

Iran
Turkey Warns US that Trump’s New Iran Sanctions are “Dangerous”

Turkey Warns US that Trump’s New Iran Sanctions are “Dangerous”

AFP

Tokyo (AFP) – Turkey has warned Washington against its new sanctions on Iran, saying isolating the Islamic Republic is “dangerous”, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. Washington this week imposed a second set of sanctions on Iran that aim to isolate the country’s banking sector and slash its oil exports. Eight countries including Turkey […]

Donald Trump
NBC, Facebook and even Fox finally Pull Trump’s Racist Campaign Ad

NBC, Facebook and even Fox finally Pull Trump’s Racist Campaign Ad

AFP

New York (AFP) – Fox News, NBC and Facebook have pulled a Trump campaign ad branded racist, which equates a convicted Mexican murderer with Central American migrants en route to the US border. NBC pulled the ad after coming under fire for showing the commercial during the widely watched “Sunday Night Football” program ahead of […]

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As World warns of WW I-Style Nationalisms, Top 5 Nations Trump Demonizes

As World warns of WW I-Style Nationalisms, Top 5 Nations Trump Demonizes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron warned, as Europe prepares to commemorate the end of World War I a century ago on November 11, that the world is entering a new age of destructive nationalism. Virulent nationalism roiled Europe and killed over 80 million people in the two world wars. That is […]

nuclear weapons
One Small Step by a Trump into Nuclear Armageddon

One Small Step by a Trump into Nuclear Armageddon

Tomdispatch

By James Carroll | – (Tomdispatch.com) – It was only an announcement, but think of it as the beginning of a journey into hell. Last week, President Donald Trump made public his decision to abrogate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), a 1987 agreement with the Soviet Union. National Security Advisor John Bolton, a Cold […]

Israel/ Palestine
Christian Leaders Seek Repeal of Israel’s biased Jewish Nation Law

Christian Leaders Seek Repeal of Israel’s biased Jewish Nation Law

AFP

Jerusalem (AFP) – Senior Catholic clerics in Jerusalem called Sunday for Israel to repeal a controversial law giving Jews a “unique” right to self-determination in the country. “We must draw the attention of the authorities to a simple fact,” bishops and archbishops of the Roman Catholic, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic and Greek Melkite churches said […]

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