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Archives for March 2019

Israel/ Palestine
The Year of the People: The Untold Story of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’

The Year of the People: The Untold Story of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor) – What is the ‘Great March of Return’ but a people attempting to reclaim their role, and be recognised and heard in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine? Much has been said about what the popular mobilisation in Gaza, which began on March 30, 2018, represents. Sympathetic views rightly understood the […]

Climate Crisis
Could the Climate Crisis Spark a Global Financial Meltdown Worse than 2008?

Could the Climate Crisis Spark a Global Financial Meltdown Worse than 2008?

The Conversation

By Korey Pasch | – The dire climate change situation continues to make headlines and inspire actions like the Sunrise Movement. Recently, United States congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey pushed the debate about addressing climate change forward by introducing resolutions for a Green New Deal to transform the American economy. The Green New […]

Archaeology
Dear Tucker Carlson:  Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when "White Men" were Painting themselves Blue

Dear Tucker Carlson: Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when “White Men” were Painting themselves Blue

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson has been playing David Duke with a northeast accent and bow tie for some years, but in radio interviews with Bubba the Love Sponge from a decade ago released by Media Matters, he gave up the dog whistle for butchering and barbecuing the dog. Mediamatters4america: “Tucker Carlson makes […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Squatters Uproot Dozens of Olive Trees in Palestinian Nablus

Israeli Squatters Uproot Dozens of Olive Trees in Palestinian Nablus

Maan News Agency

NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of Palestinian-owned olive trees, on Tuesday, in an agricultural area near the Burin village, south of the northern occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement stormed […]

CIA
In Blow to Democracy, Trump ends Requirement that CIA report Drone Strike Casualties

In Blow to Democracy, Trump ends Requirement that CIA report Drone Strike Casualties

AFP

A US Predator drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport in Afghanistan Washington, DC (AFP) – US President Donald Trump revoked a policy Wednesday that required the Central Intelligence Agency to account for civilian deaths from drone strikes. The move reversed a two-year-old order by his predecessor Barack Obama, […]

Yemen
Saudi-Led Bombardment of Yemen kills 22, including Children, wounds 30

Saudi-Led Bombardment of Yemen kills 22, including Children, wounds 30

AFP

Sanaa (AFP) – Twelve children and 10 women have been killed by strikes in Yemen’s northern province of Hajjah in the past 48 hours, the United Nations said on Monday. Up to 30 people were reported wounded, including 14 children, several of whom “require possible evacuation to survive,” the UN’s humanitarian coordination office OCHA said […]

Drone Warfare
School Shootings and Drone Wars: America's Invisible Ways of Violence

School Shootings and Drone Wars: America’s Invisible Ways of Violence

Tomdispatch

By Allegra Harpootlian (Tomdispatch.com) – In the wake of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members, a teacher said the school looked “like a war zone.” And to many young Americans, that’s exactly what it felt like. But this shooting […]

journalism
Rupert Murdoch Provocateur Tucker Carlson Exposed in Bubba the Love Sponge Interview (TYT Video)

Rupert Murdoch Provocateur Tucker Carlson Exposed in Bubba the Love Sponge Interview (TYT Video)

Juan Cole

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | The Young Turks | (Video News Clip) | – “Media Matters for America has released an interview Tucker Carlson did on the Bubba The Love Sponge show, Tucker probably wishes this didn’t come out. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss Tucker’s disgusting comments on The Young Turks.” The Young […]

Featured
Even Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot Slams Netanyahu's Racism: 'It is not a matter of ... Arabs or Jews"

Even Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot Slams Netanyahu’s Racism: ‘It is not a matter of … Arabs or Jews”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Can Wonder Woman take down Israel’s combative, far right wing prime minister over his disturbing racism? Actress Gal Gadot, who played the Amazonian superhero in the blockbuster DC Entertainment film, has weighed in. As her character, Diana, said in the film, “I am the man who can.” Embed from Getty […]

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