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 […]
Archives for November 2018
Trump dismisses as ‘Feelings’ CIA Finding that Saudi Crown Prince ordered Murder
US President Donald Trump has ratchet up his dispute with his own intelligence community by dismissing their conclusion of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khasgoggi saying that it was based on “feelings”. Fielding questions from reporters at his at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, where he is spending his Thanksgiving holiday, Trump doubled down on […]
British Universities Boycott United Arab Emirates over Student ‘Spying’ Life Sentence
In what seems to be the first sign of a nationwide backlash against the UAE’s decision to sentence a British PhD student to life, staff at Birmingham University have voted to boycott their campuses in the Emirates. The motion, passed yesterday, will mean that lecturers based in Birmingham will refuse to teach in Dubai and […]
Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card
Fifty young people affiliated with the Sunrise Movement were arrested on November 13 in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office, following a sit-in demanding that Democrats use their new majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to launch a comprehensive plan to confront climate change — a Green New Deal. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not only […]
Pakistan: Baluch Separatists Storm “Oppressive’ Chinese Consulate in Karachi, kill 2 Policemen
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 […]
CIA has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince planning Hit on Khashoggi: Turkish ‘Hurriyet’
The other shoe has dropped in the scandal of the assassination of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, which was almost certainly ordered by crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Ironically enough, the shoe dropped with a thud in Turkey itself. Columnist Abdulkadir Selvi at the Hürriyet [Liberty] newspaper alleges that […]
Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?
(Otherwords.org) – Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying to get his Jacksonville, Florida neighbor to go vote with him. The young neighbor, a high-school-dropout, had no interest. “Voting,” the young man declared, “doesn’t change anything.” Can Democrats use their newly won House majority to reach that dispirited young man in Jacksonville? That […]
United Arab Emirates Prince Targeted by Lawsuits over Yemen Atrocities
Paris (AFP) – Rights activists filed two complaints in France against a visiting Abu Dhabi prince on Wednesday, accusing him of being complicit in torture as well as in war crimes in Yemen. Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who is a close ally of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was in Paris […]
Saudi Gov’t: Crown Prince a ‘Red Line’ in Khashoggi Murder Probe
London (AFP) – Saudi Arabia has warned criticism of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a “red line”, after Donald Trump heaped praise on the kingdom in defiance of warnings he was giving Riyadh a pass on a journalist’s grisly murder. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Wednesday that calls for the crown prince […]
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