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Archives for March 2019

nuclear weapons
Nuclear Brinkmanship is Back:  Why We need a New Peace Movement

Nuclear Brinkmanship is Back: Why We need a New Peace Movement

John Buell

How do you convince current or potential adversaries that in the event of nuclear attack you will respond in kind?

Immigration
Ripping Suckling Babes from their Mothers' Breasts: Trump's Border Porn

Ripping Suckling Babes from their Mothers’ Breasts: Trump’s Border Porn

Greg Grandin

(Tomdispatch.com) – On February 15th, Donald Trump declared a state of national emergency in order to fund his “great, great” border wall without having to go through Congress. There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy. In speech after speech, including […]

Israel/ Palestine
Want Hate Speech?  Look at the Israeli Government, not US Congresswomen

Want Hate Speech? Look at the Israeli Government, not US Congresswomen

Ramzy Baroud

This is a war … This is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people

Israel/ Palestine
Far-Right Netanyahu's Blocking of a Palestinian State and anti-Iran Coalition are his Legacy

Far-Right Netanyahu’s Blocking of a Palestinian State and anti-Iran Coalition are his Legacy

The Conversation

Netanyahu killed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian standoff

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As News of Khashoggi "Kebab" at Saudi Consulate Emerges, GOP Senators Condemn Trump Admin Briefing as Substanceless

As News of Khashoggi “Kebab” at Saudi Consulate Emerges, GOP Senators Condemn Trump Admin Briefing as Substanceless

Juan Cole

The bags of Khashoggi’s remains were brought there by various couriers and were incinerated

Climate Change
Ocean Heatwaves already Devastating Marine Life, with Fisheries in Danger

Ocean Heatwaves already Devastating Marine Life, with Fisheries in Danger

Marlowe Hood

Paris (AFP) – Invisible to people but deadly to marine life, ocean heatwaves have damaged ecosystems across the globe and are poised to become even more destructive, according to the first study to measure worldwide impacts with a single yardstick. The number of marine heatwave days has increased by more than 50 percent since the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties

Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties

Middle East Monitor

“The next government will be even worse than its predecessor. We want to topple Kahanism.”

Israel/ Palestine
Students, Faculty Blacklisted by Canary Mission for pro-Palestine Views

Students, Faculty Blacklisted by Canary Mission for pro-Palestine Views

contributors

“It’s kind of ridiculous that so many students on campus are affected by this, and they’re being demonized, and the University hasn’t done anything about this”

Featured
Israel Lobbies slam Ilhan Omar even as they Try to Bankrupt small Leftist Arkansas Paper over Israel Boycott

Israel Lobbies slam Ilhan Omar even as they Try to Bankrupt small Leftist Arkansas Paper over Israel Boycott

Juan Cole

First-term Congresswoman Ilhan Omar refuses to back down on her criticism of the Washington Establishment for demanding that representatives “pledge allegiance” to Israel or risk being smeared as un-American. But she is right. The Israel lobbies that direct campaign money to representatives and senators insist that Israeli policy of imposing Jim Crow discrimination on Palestinians […]

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