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Archives for November 2018

Featured
Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts

Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts

Juan Cole

Airbnb, the giant online apartment rental site will delist 200 apartments of Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. The company has long been criticized for violating international law by dealing with the illegal colonists. Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza in 1967, and has introduced Apartheid rule there, keeping the Palestinians stateless. […]

Climate Change
Some Countries will have to Face 6 Climate Catastrophes at Once

Some Countries will have to Face 6 Climate Catastrophes at Once

TeleSur

(TeleSur) – The future risk of dealing with multiple climate impacts at once depends on geography and whether humanity succeeds in rapidly drawing down greenhouse gas emissions. By century’s end, many parts of the world may have to cope with up to six climate catastrophes at once, ranging from heat waves and wildfires to diluvian […]

Republican Party
Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party

Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party

John Buell

After the election I received a provocative letter from my friend and mentor Bill Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins and author of Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism. Bill has had a long and distinguished career in academia—and in activism. As a graduate student at Michigan he helped […]

Sexual Assault
Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution against Sexual Harassment

Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution against Sexual Harassment

AFP

The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment

Islamophobia
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)

Juan Cole

Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists

Climate Change
Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement?  John Lewis Joins

Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement? John Lewis Joins

Juan Cole

Veteran Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis (D-GA) has joined the Green New Deal proposed by the Sunrise Movement and endorsed by newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Here is a video of his remarks, among them that the people “have a right to know what we are breathing.” Here’s the video of civil […]

Donald Trump
Shattering Europe?  The Debris of Trump's Paris Fiasco

Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco

Rajan Menon

Even before Air Force One touched down in Paris, Trump took aim on Twitter at his host, French President Emmanuel Macron

Afghanistan
For First Time, Afghan President admits 30,000 Troops killed since 2015

For First Time, Afghan President admits 30,000 Troops killed since 2015

AFP

More than 17 years since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the conflict grinds on

Israel/ Palestine
After Israeli Attack on Journalists Protest, Int’l Fed. of Journalists demands Response

After Israeli Attack on Journalists Protest, Int’l Fed. of Journalists demands Response

Maan News Agency

“The IFJ’s global leadership and a number of Palestinian journalists walked peacefully.”

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