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Archives for March 2019

Latin America
Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America

Venezuela crisis: Trump threats to Maduro evoke bloody history of US intervention in Latin America

The Conversation

Rather than plan yet another coup d’etat, U.S. efforts in Venezuela should support the work of the Lima Group

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia to Put Detained Women Activists on Trial

Saudi Arabia to Put Detained Women Activists on Trial

AFP

Riyadh (AFP) – Saudi women activists detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on campaigners will be put on trial, state media said Friday. “The public prosecution would like to announce that it has concluded its investigation and prepared the indictment list against the defendants… and will refer the case to the relevant court,” the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Middle East Monitor

Last week, Israeli authorities refused to hand over the body of Fares Baroud

Featured
Netanyahu to be Indicted on Bribery, Fraud, Press Tampering: Israeli AG

Netanyahu to be Indicted on Bribery, Fraud, Press Tampering: Israeli AG

Juan Cole

Netanyahu’s thuggish threats and sweetheart deals to manipulate press coverage of himself are on top of all that

Climate Change
Could the Climate Crisis End America's Global Dominion?

Could the Climate Crisis End America’s Global Dominion?

Alfred W. McCoy

Humanity has just 12 years left to cut carbon emissions by a striking 45% or the world’s temperature would rise by at least 1.5 degrees Celsius

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Broke Int’l Law, Likely Committed War Crimes, Shooting 6,000 Gaza Protesters: UN

Israel Broke Int’l Law, Likely Committed War Crimes, Shooting 6,000 Gaza Protesters: UN

Juan Cole

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A United Nations (UN) probe said, on Thursday, that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes killing scores of Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 suppressing weekly protests in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past year. Santiago Canton, Chairman of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry said, in a statement, […]

Iran
Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif is Back, but Revolutionary Guards still Want Control

Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif is Back, but Revolutionary Guards still Want Control

Golnaz Esfandiari

(RFE/RL) – A whirlwind eases with the Iranian president’s refusal to accept his smooth-talking foreign minister’s resignation. But that doesn’t necessarily mean Mohammad Javad Zarif has the political wind at his back. The political drama over the immediate fate of Iran’s foreign minister appears to be over. Mohammad Javad Zarif was back at work less […]

Donald Trump
Five Ways Cohen implicated Trump in possible Crimes

Five Ways Cohen implicated Trump in possible Crimes

Paul Handley

The bidder was repaid with funds from the Trump Foundation

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