New York ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Breaking News! — as NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt often puts it when beginning his evening broadcast. Here, in summary, is my view of the news that’s breaking in the United States on just about any day of the week: Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Or rather (in […]
Archives for December 2018
Is Kushner Covering for Bin Salman Murder Charge so Israel can Usurp Palestinian West Bank?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The New York Times (h/t Mother Jones) has reported from one Saudi source and several sources in US intelligence that Jared Kushner has been corresponding over Whatsapp with Saudi crown prince and world-renowned axe murderer, Mohammed Bin Salman. Kushner, the Times reporting concludes has “offered the crown prince advice about […]
Middle East Women Won Changes, Rights in ’18 Despite Backlash
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | AFP | – Women rights defenders have stood up for change across the Middle East and North Africa in 2018 despite a plethora of abuse from governments and armed groups, Amnesty International said Monday. Paying tribute to women activists in a report released on Human Rights Day, Amnesty said they […]
US Evangelicals have Sent $65 mn. to Support Israeli Squatters in Palestinian West Bank
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Evangelical Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the “Biblical Heartland” over the past decade, however, that doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, such as volunteer laborers, according to a Haaretz investigation. Haaretz news outlet reported that about 1,700 volunteers were sent by Christian Evangelical groups […]
Why isn’t anyone Asking *Why* the French Yellow Vest Protesters are Rallying?
(Informed Comment) – While Americans have been preoccupied by the nostalgic reminiscence and burial of a former President, French citizens have been engaged in mass civil disobedience enacted by the gilets juanes or “Yellow Vests,” the roadside safety vests French drivers are required to have. This action reflects and exposes social divisions barely recognized and […]
A Protest Against ‘Climate of Fear’ at U of Michigan over standing for Palestinian Rights
(Informed Comment) – In response to the furor that arose this fall over the disciplining of Professor John Cheney-Lippold for declining to write a letter of recommendation for a student to do summer study at Tel Aviv University, the administration of the university has appointed a faculty commission (which is light on humanists) to consider […]
Top 8 Ways John Kelly was an Embarrassment as WH Chief of Staff
Revised By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump announced Saturday that his chief of staff, John Kelly, will leave at the end of the month. It has been reported that the two men are not speaking. Kelly was often seen as a force for stability in the Trump administration, but as I […]
Israeli Army Snipers Wound another 33 Palestinians on Friday March of Return
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Thirty-three Palestinians were injured during the 37th Friday of “The Great March of Return” along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip. A Ma’an reporter said large crowds of Palestinians gathered by the return camps near the eastern Gaza border, in order to participate in the weekly protests to break […]
All the Ways Charlottesville Survivors Continue Fight against Racism
Charlottesville, Va | AFP | – As the jury delivered its guilty verdict against a neo-Nazi accused of murder for ramming his car into a group of counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally last year, Wednesday “Al” Bowie burst into tears of joy. “I’m feeling the best I’ve felt in almost a year and a […]
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