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Archives for January 2019

Featured
Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: "Naive and Passive," "Go Back to School!"

Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: “Naive and Passive,” “Go Back to School!”

Juan Cole

Coats: “We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities.”

Yemen
UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

Middle East Monitor

Child victims require “immediate treatment.”

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Israel Orders School Razed, Halt to Construction of Homes in Hebron, Palestine

Maan News Agency

Israeli authorities seek to displace Masafer Yatta residents, in order to seize their lands

Iran
40 Years on, is Iran a Status Quo Power or a Threat to ME Regional Security?

40 Years on, is Iran a Status Quo Power or a Threat to ME Regional Security?

Ali Abootalebi

(Informed Comment) – The US-Iranian relations remain conflictual forty years after the revolution and with an uncertain future. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that Poland will host an international conference on Iran in February has angered Iranian officials, prompting foreign minister Javad Zarif’s tweeting the upcoming summit as America’s anti-Iran “circus.” Secretary […]

Israel
Gantz Targets Netanyahu in Israeli Election:  'Ridiculous' for Indicted PM to Serve

Gantz Targets Netanyahu in Israeli Election: ‘Ridiculous’ for Indicted PM to Serve

AFP

By Laurent Lozano | – Jerusalem (AFP) – A picture taken on January 29, 2019, shows the podium where former Israeli chief of staff Benny Gantz delivered his first electoral speech Bullish on security, conservative in diplomacy — ending weeks of silence, retired Israeli general Benny Gantz has launched his campaign to become prime minister. […]

Corruption
Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

Juan Cole

The US is so corrupt that our ruling, Republican Party, would even deny human-made climate change and adopt pro-carbon policies

Immigration
Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump's Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump’s Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

TeleSur

We are dropping American made bombs on countries … the US then made the decision to block those people inside those countries…”

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians need Int’l Protection until Israeli Occupation Ends: PLO

Palestinians need Int’l Protection until Israeli Occupation Ends: PLO

Maan News Agency

Netanyahu has made clear that even Israeli squatter installations considered illegal by Israeli law will not be removed

Islamophobia
How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren't Two Sides to Bigotry

How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren’t Two Sides to Bigotry

Basil Abdelkarim

Trump cynically invoked the dreaded Muslim Boogeyman.

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