GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Injuries were reported among Palestinians protesting at the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday afternoon. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that at least 37 Palestinians were injured with Israeli live ammunition, including six children, nine women and one paramedic woman. Medical sources told Ma’an that […]
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Archives for 2018
Climate Crisis: Lady Gaga, Kardashians, & Thousands others Flee Wildfire in Malibu
Residents in several towns of both Northern and Southern California were evacuated in some of the most destructive wildfires in California history. Wildfires raged Friday across California where at least nine people have died while trying to escape flames engulfing a mountain town. In Northern California, hundreds of homes were believed destroyed in Paradise, California, […]
In Setback for Trump’s Imperial presidency, Judge halts Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
Washington (AFP) – A US federal judge on Thursday halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, arguing that President Donald Trump’s administration had failed to adequately explain why it had lifted a ban on the project. The ruling by Judge Brian Morris of the US District Court for the District of Montana dealt a […]
15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK
Revised The mass shooting in a bar in California that left 12 dead was carried out by a Vet, making it doubly tragic. The United States has never dealt with the trauma it has inflicted on a whole generation of young people by sending them to fight a fruitless and illegal war in Iraq and […]
US ‘War on Terror’ has killed 500,000 People: Study
Washington (AFP) – About half a million people have died violently in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan due to the US “war on terror” that was launched following the September 11 attacks in 2001, according to a study released Thursday. The report by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll […]
Making America’s Wars Great Again: Caught in the Vietnam Time Loop
(Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s a paradox of the last few decades: as American military power has been less and less effective in achieving Washington’s goals, the rhetoric surrounding that power has grown more and more boastful. The cliché that our armed forces are the best and mightiest in the world — even if the U.S. military […]
Russia Seeks to Dump Dollar as New US Sanctions Loom
By Andrea PALASCIANO | – Moscow (AFP) – Moscow is intensifying efforts to wean its economy off the dollar as Washington considers tough new sanctions that could deny Russia access to foreign debt markets and cut its banks from the greenback. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly slammed the US unit’s dominance on the world’s stage […]
Saudi Gov’t, still not Tired of Controversy, May Execute 12 Shiites “Imminently”
Dubai (AFP) – Amnesty International said on Wednesday it feared 12 minority Shiites in Saudi Arabia faced “imminent” execution after their cases were transferred to a powerful security body that reports directly to the king. The men, sentenced to death in a mass trial in 2016 after being convicted of spying for regional rival Iran, […]
Apartheid: Israel’s Netanyahu wants Death Penalty Solely for Palestinians
The Israeli parliament is scheduled to discuss a bill that would ease requirements on the death penalty for Palestinians next week. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported a bill that would allow the imposition of the death penalty for Palestinians charged with attacking Israelis. Debate on the bill is scheduled to restart next week. During […]








