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Archives for November 2018

Climate Change
3 Charts: What Trump doesn’t Want you to Know about the Climate Emergency

3 Charts: What Trump doesn’t Want you to Know about the Climate Emergency

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration dropped the 1,000-page second volume of a congressionally-mandated study of the impact of the climate crisis on the United States late on Friday of Thanksgiving weekend in order to bury it. This sort of move is designed to make sure the report is not headline news on […]

Saudi Arabia
Trump dismisses as 'Feelings' CIA Finding that Saudi Crown Prince ordered Murder

Trump dismisses as ‘Feelings’ CIA Finding that Saudi Crown Prince ordered Murder

Middle East Monitor

“No they didn’t conclude. They did not come to a conclusion.”

UAE
British Universities Boycott United Arab Emirates over Student 'Spying' Life Sentence

British Universities Boycott United Arab Emirates over Student ‘Spying’ Life Sentence

Middle East Monitor

Staff at Birmingham University have voted to boycott their campuses in the Emirates

Environmentalism
Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card

Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card

Lauren Burke

To be truly transformational, any bold green jobs proposal must be rooted in the right to organize.

Pakistan
Pakistan: Baluch Separatists Storm “Oppressive’ Chinese Consulate in Karachi, kill 2 Policemen

Pakistan: Baluch Separatists Storm “Oppressive’ Chinese Consulate in Karachi, kill 2 Policemen

AFP

Karachi (Pakistan) (AFP) – Two policemen were killed on Friday when gunmen stormed the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi, officials said, with the attack claimed by a separatist group which branded Beijing “an oppressor”. Pakistani authorities said that security forces had secured the area after the attack, the latest in a series […]

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CIA has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince planning Hit on Khashoggi: Turkish 'Hurriyet'

CIA has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince planning Hit on Khashoggi: Turkish ‘Hurriyet’

Juan Cole

The two Saudi officials are heard in the CIA recording discussing the “discomfort” created by Khashoggi’s public criticism

Bernie Sanders
Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?

Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?

Sam Pizzigati

The party’s leaders have been far too cautious in the past. Newer ideas could spark real change in who owns and runs America.

UAE
United Arab Emirates Prince Targeted by Lawsuits over Yemen Atrocities

United Arab Emirates Prince Targeted by Lawsuits over Yemen Atrocities

AFP

Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led intervention began

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Gov’t: Crown Prince a ‘Red Line’ in Khashoggi Murder Probe

Saudi Gov’t: Crown Prince a ‘Red Line’ in Khashoggi Murder Probe

AFP

Calls for the crown prince to be held accountable for the grisly killing of Jamal Khashoggi ‘would not be tolerated.’

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