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Archives for February 2019

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Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu's Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?

Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu’s Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?

Juan Cole

The Israel lobbies demand silence from Americans and now are even attempting to deep-six the First Amendment by more or less outlawing BDS

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Middle East Monitor

Sanders rightly described the Senate anti-BDS bill as “absurd”

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers Kill 15-year-old Peaceful Protester, Wound 41, as Crowds Mourn

Israeli Snipers Kill 15-year-old Peaceful Protester, Wound 41, as Crowds Mourn

Maan News Agency

Mourners repeated slogans condemning Israeli crimes, especially against children

Donald Trump
Mueller: Former Trump Campaign Chief Broke Law ‘Repeatedly & Brazenly’

Mueller: Former Trump Campaign Chief Broke Law ‘Repeatedly & Brazenly’

AFP

District Judge Jackson agreed that Manafort had “intentionally” lied to investigators about his contacts with Russian operative Kilimnik

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Leftist Syrian Kurds Rejoice that Trump will Keep Hundreds of US Troops in Syria

Leftist Syrian Kurds Rejoice that Trump will Keep Hundreds of US Troops in Syria

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The left wing Democratic Union Party of Kurds in Northeast Syria and its paramilitary, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), warmly welcomed President Trump’s about-face and decision to keep at least 200 US troops in Syria on Friday. A YPG militia commander said that this American step “will prevent the region […]

Saudi Arabia
Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was Their Agenda? — “Trump, Inc.” Extra

Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was Their Agenda? — “Trump, Inc.” Extra

ProPublica

By Charles Herman (Propublica) – For a year, “Trump, Inc.” has been digging into the 2017 inauguration. That reporting led us to look closely at the man Donald Trump picked to run the event, Tom Barrack, a wealthy businessman who’s been friends with Trump for decades. As we were finishing our Barrack episode — just […]

Climate Change
Marshall Islands Consider Radical Measures to Survive Fossil Fuel-driven Rising Seas

Marshall Islands Consider Radical Measures to Survive Fossil Fuel-driven Rising Seas

AFP

It will involve selecting islands to raise, add to, or build upon

Israel/ Palestine
The Escalation of Israeli Collective Punishment of Palestinians

The Escalation of Israeli Collective Punishment of Palestinians

Al-Shabaka

by Nada Awad | – The Israeli authorities forcibly transferred Palestinian Nadia Abu Jamal from Jerusalem in 2017, following the demolition of her family home in 2015. Israel’s National Insurance Institute also revoked healthcare and other social security entitlements from Abu Jamal’s three children, two of whom suffer from chronic medical conditions. The orders came […]

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Israeli PM Netanyahu partners with Kahanist Terrorist Elements, seeking another Term

Israeli PM Netanyahu partners with Kahanist Terrorist Elements, seeking another Term

Juan Cole

Israel has evolved as an ethno-nationalist supremacist state that practices Jim Crow forms of discrimination

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