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Archives for December 2018

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Israel turns unstable Abruptly, as Police urge PM Netanyahu be indicted

Israel turns unstable Abruptly, as Police urge PM Netanyahu be indicted

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli police over the weekend urged that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah, be indicted for corruption. The decision lies with attorney general Avichai Mandelblit. The Israeli police and justice system have shown a willingness to punish corruption in high places. Former prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced […]

Books
Why Kahlil Gibran is one of the Best-Selling Poets of All Time

Why Kahlil Gibran is one of the Best-Selling Poets of All Time

The Conversation

By Antonia Pont | – (The Conversation) – Kahlil Gibran (original spelling at birth “Khalil”) is a strange phenomenon of 20th Century letters and publishing. After Shakespeare and the Chinese poet Laozi, Gibran’s work from 1923, The Prophet, has made him the third most-sold poet of all time. This slim volume of 26 prose poems […]

Yemen
Senate tumult reflects popular discontent with Yemen War

Senate tumult reflects popular discontent with Yemen War

Reese Erlich

(48Hills.com) – International relief organizations consider the conflict the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Now, it seems, the US is paying attention. I’m on a low-budget book tour, sleeping in spare bedrooms and munching granola in the kitchens of progressives all along the East Coast. Many had felt beaten down and pessimistic from two years of […]

Plutocracy
Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster

Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster

Alfred W. McCoy

Trump’s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster Five Academics Who Unleashed the “Demon” of Geopolitical Power By Alfred W. McCoy ( Tomdispatch.com ) – As Washington’s leadership fades more quickly than anyone could have imagined and a new global order struggles to take shape, a generation of leaders has crowded onto the world […]

Yemen
Yemen Hospital Struggles with Number of Malnourished Children

Yemen Hospital Struggles with Number of Malnourished Children

AFP

Khokha, Yemen | AFP | – Khokha (Yemen) (AFP) – Twenty Yemeni children huddle together outside Khokha hospital, hoping to be let into a clinic that serves as a lifeline for tens of thousands. On the narrow pavement, a boy dressed in purple leans limply against his mother. In her lap is a baby with […]

Israel/ Palestine
UN General Assembly Demands Israel Relinquish Syria’s Golan Heights

UN General Assembly Demands Israel Relinquish Syria’s Golan Heights

TeleSur

The United Nations General Assembly approved six resolutions on Israel Friday, including a demand for Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights, ratifying Syrian sovereignty over the territory, and a call to the international community to refrain from recognizing any unilateral measures taken by Israel in Jerusalem. With 99 votes in favor, 10 against, and […]

Featured
The Pivotal GHW Bush Presidency: How the US became Mired in the Mideast

The Pivotal GHW Bush Presidency: How the US became Mired in the Mideast

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the occasion of the death of George H. W. Bush, I’d like to reflect on the meaning of his presidency for American foreign policy in the Middle East. Bush was the last representative of the old Republican Party of wealthy northeast businessmen and Midwestern farmers and small town dwellers, […]

Inequality
What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150,000

What Does Inequality Cost the Average American? About $150,000

Sam Pizzigati

Americans pay a steep price for not spreading their wealth around as well as other developed countries.

Israel/ Palestine
Arab-Americans Condemn CNN Firing of Journalist for Supporting Palestinian Rights

Arab-Americans Condemn CNN Firing of Journalist for Supporting Palestinian Rights

Maan News Agency

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemned, in a statement, CNN’s decision against Marc Hill

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