Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Julian Castro, among candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for president, have all announced that they will not attend the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) The powerful grassroots organization of center-left Democrats, MoveOn.org, has called for […]
Archives for March 2019
How Bush’s War on Iraq Produced Trumpism, Instability, Refugees and Climate Catastrophe
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – George W. Bush is being rehabilitated in the age of Trump, as the second worst president in American history is burnished by the absolute worst. Much that is wrong with politics in the Trump era, however, was foreshadowed by Bush. It was Bush who practiced the Big Lie to take […]
Kushner of Arabia wanted to Give Some of Jordan to Palestinians and some of Saudi Land to Jordan
White House official Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan “once included a massive land swap proposal in which the Palestinians would get Jordanian land and Jordan would get Saudi Arabian land”, reported the Times of Israel. The claims are made as part of a new book published this week called “Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. […]
Trump and Don Jr. Wage Scathing War of Words on . . . Conservatives of Britain and Germany?
By Shaun TANDON | – Washington, DC (AFP) – President Donald Trump is once again tearing up the diplomatic norm of treading lightly in allies’ domestic politics, with his team attacking Britain’s beleaguered leader over Brexit and irritating Germany. Trump, who has slaughtered so many sacred cows in US politics, has shown no compunction over […]
How Progressives can build on Trump Catastrophe to Remake America
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Centrist liberalism is dead, and Trump is a disaster. But progressives can use what he’s done to remake America and its place in the world. Donald Trump has shaken up U.S. foreign policy. Most of what he has done has been disastrous, like pulling America out of the Paris climate […]
No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery
Fox Cable News’ Katie Pavlich asserted Tuesday, “They keep blaming America for slavery, but the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. America came along as the first country to end it within 150 years. And we get no credit for that.” Seriously, how utterly and comprehensively brain dead stupid and ignorant do […]
UN Must Name Names of Companies helping Israel to Flood Squatters into Palestinian West Bank
Item 7 General Debate (Human Rights Watch) – As Israeli authorities expand settlements at an “unprecedented high level,” in the words of a recent European Union report, it is more urgent than ever that the High Commissioner for Human Rights release the long-awaited report on the database of businesses facilitating illegal Israeli settlements. Settlements are […]
Ilhan Omar Calls out DC Double Standards, insists on Palestinian Rights in their Homeland
US Congressman Ilhan Omar has called on America to put human rights, justice, and peace at the centre of its foreign policy and cited examples in the Middle East where she said: “Washington has failed to apply these universal values to all nations”. “I believe in an inclusive foreign policy—one that centers on human rights, […]
New Gallipoli: Turkey & Australia in War of Words over NZ Mosque Massacre
By Andrew BEATTY | – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison condemned “reckless” and “highly offensive” comments made by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the Christchurch massacre, warning he would consider “all options” in reviewing ties. On the campaign trail, the Turkish leader has used video footage of the terror attack that killed […]
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