By Brad West and Ayhan Aktar | (The Conversation) | – – With ongoing political instability and security concerns in Turkey, we are again likely to see a smaller turnout of Australians and New Zealanders for Anzac Day ceremonies at Gallipoli this year. Turkish soldiers in a trench at Gallipoli. The way Turkish youth commemorate […]
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Archives for 2018
Macron and Trump talk new Iran Deal, but is it Pie in the Sky?
Gilles Paris and Marc Semo at Le Monde report on President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to President Trump in Washington and their discussions regarding the Iran deal (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). They say that Macron repeated his four points regarding Iran policy: 1. Maintain the 2015 Iran deal, which freezes the Iranian […]
Palestine takes Israel to UN Racism Commission for Apartheid Policies
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian diplomats have filed an official complaint against Israel, alleging breaches of Israel’s obligations of the United Nations’ anti-racism treaty. The 350-page document was handed to the Geneva office of the United Nations that is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention. Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi accused […]
Dubai-based Company Hired Iraq War Black Ops Exec to Smear Qatar in Film
By Jessica Purkiss and Abigail Fielding-Smith | (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) | – – This story was published in partnership with The Daily Beast. Their version can be found here. The former CEO of Bell Pottinger USA was given over $500,000 to produce a six-part film linking Qatar with global terrorism A veteran of […]
Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods
By Mariëtte Le Roux | – – Paris (AFP) – California will zigzag between droughts and floods which will become more intense and more frequent in the coming decades unless global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are checked, researchers said Monday. The Golden State has already experienced a rapid rise in such “whiplash” events — […]
Militarizing the US Border Frontier for Fun and Profit
By Todd Miller | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I suddenly noticed what […]
Is Mike Pompeo Soft on White Terrorism Against Muslim Immigrants?
The Senate Foreign Relations committee narrowly voted in favor of former CIA director Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State on Monday, after President Trump called up Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and convinced him to change his negative view to a positive one. Those pundits who expressed confidence that GOP Libertarians and traditionalists would foil Trump’s […]
Kabul Mourns Loss of ‘Invincible Hero’ in Anti-Shiite Suicide Blast
by Usman Sharifi | – – Kabul (AFP) – Whenever suicide attackers struck his fellow Shiites in Kabul, Wakil Hussain Allahdad would drop what he was doing and rush to the scene to help rescue survivors and carry away the dead. But on Sunday Allahdad himself became a victim, fatally wounded in the devastating blast […]
Dozens killed in Saudi-led air raid on Yemen wedding: medics
Sanaa (AFP) – Dozens were killed and wounded in an air raid on a wedding party in Yemen, local officials said Monday, with Huthi rebels blaming a Saudi-led military coalition. The Iran-backed rebels who control most of northern Yemen blamed Sunday’s attack on the Arab coalition that backs the country’s government, in the latest in […]
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