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Archives for January 2019

Iraq
Party of Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tables Bill to expel US Troops from Iraq

Party of Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tables Bill to expel US Troops from Iraq

Middle East Monitor

If passed, the bill would require all foreign military deployments — including troops and advisers — to leave the country within one year

Afghanistan
When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?

Tom Engelhardt

Like the Red Army, the U.S. military will finally leave that country in defeat and will bring that defeat home with them.

Featured
Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank

Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland’s parliament has voted by 78 votes to 45 to ban the importation into Ireland of goods produced by Israeli squatter firms in the militarily Occupied Palestinian West Bank. According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on occupied territories, the occupying authority is forbidden to settle its own population in […]

Plutocracy
Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers:  "Let them Eat Debt!"

Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”

Chris Lefkow

By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the impact of the government shutdown after saying he didn’t understand why some federal workers were turning to food banks. Wilbur Ross shrugged off the impact of the shutdown — now […]

Syria
With Trump out, Putin and Turkey's Erdogan Carve up Syria

With Trump out, Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan Carve up Syria

AFP

Moscow plans to organise a three-way summit with Turkey and Iran early this year

Israel/ Palestine
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses

Judith E. Tucker

The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.

Far Right
White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump's Wall

White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump’s Wall

AFP

The wall would be “a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage”

Donald Trump
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without a conscience run by people with no scruples or empathy. Trump continues to govern in this psychopathic way. Just as criminal gang bosses and dictators take hostages and threaten or […]

Saudi Arabia
From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can't Escape Spotlight

From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can’t Escape Spotlight

Human Rights Watch

New Human Rights Watch Report out Now

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