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Archives for May 2019

Israel/ Palestine
What I saw in Gaza Changed me Forever

What I saw in Gaza Changed me Forever

contributors

My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people

Health Care
America's Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

Tomdispatch

Persistent growth of income inequality to Gilded Age levels has had a decided effect on the health of many Americans

Petroleum
The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!

The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!

contributors

Bolton: It will make a great difference to the US economically, if we could have US oil companies invest in and produce the oil in Venezuela.

Featured
Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of innocent Gaza Palestinian protesters wounded by live fire by Israeli snipers are in danger of losing limbs if the decrepit Gaza hospital system does not receive $20 million, according to Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory. Since the Great March of Return protests […]

Iran
"Ghost Tankers:" Can Iran Evade Trump's Severe Sanctions on its Oil Sales?

“Ghost Tankers:” Can Iran Evade Trump’s Severe Sanctions on its Oil Sales?

Frud Bezhan

Iran has previously had barter deals with China and India

Constitution
Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

The Conversation

Nixon’s own Justice Department could not find a single example in history of anyone invoking executive privilege in an impeachment inquiry

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can't Refuse

Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can’t Refuse

Middle East Monitor

By Bill Law | – On 2 May Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was playing his cards very close to the chest at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a pro-Israeli think tank. Kushner is the man charged with delivering the “deal of the century” that will supposedly secure peace between […]

Featured
Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran;  Iraq declines

Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran; Iraq declines

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made a surprise four-hour visit to Baghdad on Tuesday in connection to the panic he is trying to trump up, along with US national security adviser and Sheldon Adelson plant John Bolton about Iran supposedly planning to attack US troops in the Middle East. […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Gets all the Goodies, Palestinians Screwed: First-ever Reveal of ‘Deal of the Century’ Details

Israel Gets all the Goodies, Palestinians Screwed: First-ever Reveal of ‘Deal of the Century’ Details

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The main points of the United States’ anticipated Middle East peace plan, the so-called “Deal of the Century,” were revealed by a Hebrew-language news outlet, on Tuesday. Israel Hayom news outlet published the main points of the “Deal of the Century” from a leaked document, which was circulated by the Israeli Foreign […]

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