Qatar Investment Authority aims to raise investments in the United States to $45 billion in the next two years as it rebalances its portfolio of assets away from Europe, its chief executive said on Sunday according to a Reuters report. The sovereign wealth fund has built up a huge European portfolio through stakes in companies […]
Archives for January 2019
Trump’s Erratic Foreign Policy in 2019: Will it put us in More Danger?
Let me just say a few things about the interview I gave at Arirang a couple of weeks ago, embedded below. I argue that Trump is becoming increasingly impatient with being held back by the Washington Establishment, and that he has gradually shed everyone who could curb his impetuous decision-making. His National Security Adviser, H. […]
Not the Onion: Ivanka Trump in running for World Bank Head
WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, and US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, are reportedly among possible US candidates to replace the outgoing World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Earlier this week, Jim Yong Kim announced he would be stepping down as the World Bank’s president three […]
Snowden: If Israel’s NSO had Refused Sale to Saudis, Khashoggi would be Alive
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has said that if Israeli spyware firm NSO Group had refused to sell its technology to Saudi Arabia, murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi would still be alive. In an exclusive interview with Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published yesterday, Snowden stressed: “There is a real possibility that if NSO had refused to […]
Could Trump’s Gov’t Shutdown send US Economy into Tailspin?
By Douglas Gillison | – Washington, DC (AFP) – The US government shutdown on Saturday became the longest in history and is taking a growing bite out of the world’s largest economy with each passing day, economists say. While most of the 21 “lapses” in government spending since 1976 left barely a scratch on economic […]
Solar and Wind Good news Stories Today
Scotland is now getting 70% of its electricity from renewables (wind, solar, wave and hydro) and plans to be at 100% in 2020. In some months in 2018 Scotland’s renewables generated more 100% of the electricity the country uses. Scotland is innovating in tidal power, driven by the powerful currents in its seas, but onshore […]
Is Rashida Tlaib in Sights of Israel Lobbies b/c she is a Palestinian Muslim Congresswoman?
By Nasim Ahmed ( @nasim_nahmed ) – One of the founding myths of Israel is the non-existence of the Palestinian people. Tragically this myth served the country to great effect especially in denying the return of refugees (750,000, half the population) to their country following their expulsion in 1948 and in continually hindering the Palestinian […]
Israeli Snipers attack unarmed Protesters in Gaza, Kill Palestinian Woman, Injure 25 Others with Live Fire, Military Grade Tear Gas
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian woman was killed and 25 others suffered injuries with Israeli live ammunition during the 42nd Friday of “The Great March of Return” along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, a Palestinian woman, whose identity remained unknown, was killed […]
Defying Turkey & Russia in Syria, al-Qaeda-linked HTS takes over Idlib
By Jean Marc Mojon | – Beirut (AFP) – A general view of a camp for displaced people in the village of Atme, in Syria’s mostly rebel-held northern Idlib province on January 8, 2019 The Idlib area in northern Syria is now fully ruled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist organisation dominated by members […]
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