Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The some 12 million Palestinians in the world, the majority of them made refugees by the Israelis, lack a nation-state. A good half of them ,in addition to having no Palestinian state, do not even have citizenship in a host state. That is, the 5 million Palestinians under Israeli hegemony […]
Archives for January 2019
Piteous Albion & Brexit: British PM Suffers Biggest Defeat in Modern History
London (AFP) – Prime Minister Theresa May will on Wednesday face a confidence vote after MPs overwhelmingly rejected her deal to leave the European Union, leaving Britain with no plan as it hurtles towards Brexit on March 29. May suffered the largest government defeat in modern British history on Tuesday night when the House of […]
Lost Childhood: Palestinian Children in Israeli Prisons
(Informed Comment) – “At first when Adel (my son) got arrested, I was a wreck, thinking about his future, school and education, he loves to play football and reading, he was very good at school. The idea that he is losing precious childhood time- breaks my heart. but then I need to be strong and […]
Our Carbon Dioxide Addiction: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
( Tomdispatch.com) – I’m standing atop Rush Hill on Alaska’s remote St. Paul Island. While only 665 feet high, it provides a 360-degree view of this tundra-covered, 13-mile-long, seven-mile-wide part of the Pribilof Islands. While the hood of my rain jacket flaps in the cold wind, I gaze in wonder at the silvery waters of […]
Israel: Key Far-Right Faction to be Headed by even Farther-Right anti-Palestinian Ideologue
(Middle East Monitor) – An extreme right-wing member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has been elected to lead a faction of the Jewish Home party. Bezalel Smotrich MK is renowned for his pro-settlement views. Smotrich, who currently serves as the Deputy Knesset Speaker, was elected yesterday to head the National Union, an extreme faction […]
Turkey will set up and itself Manage Syria ‘Security Zone’ after Trump Call
By Fulya OZERKAN | – Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey welcomed the planned withdrawal of some 2,000 US troops from Syria but the future of US-backed Kurdish militia forces there labelled terrorists by Ankara has poisoned US-Turkish ties Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Ankara would set up a “security zone” in northern Syria […]
Thanks to our Generous Supporters
Many, many thanks to our our generous supporters for a successful fundraising season. We got over halfway to a very ambitious goal, and certainly you made the campaign a great success by any measure. 2019 is very likely going to be an epochal year. We could well see a constitutional crisis or more than one, […]
My “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires” now a Bold Type Book
Congratulations to my publisher @BoldTypeBooks on their new name! I’m proud to be a Bold Author and part of the #BoldTypeBooks community. www.BoldTypeBooks.org. https://vimeo.com/307572732 "I am Bold" – Bold Type Books from Bold Type Books on Vimeo. Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, published October 9, 2018 Now available at Barnes and […]
GOP must reject Trump’s Wall to really Repudiate Rep. Steve King’s Racism
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday stripped Rep. Steve King (R-IA) of all his committee assignments, leaving him a fifth wheel with nothing to do in Congress. The move came after King told the New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become […]
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