By Ned Rosch | – My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people. | – (Yes! Magazine) – Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism is a powerful collection of 40 essays by Jews from diverse backgrounds. Each describes a personal journey from a Zionist worldview to activism in solidarity […]
Archives for May 2019
America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You
By Beverly Gologorsky | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – On this extremely hot summer day, the ear-splitting siren screaming through New York’s streets is coming from the ambulance I’m in — on a gurney on my way to the ER. That only makes the siren, loud as it is, all the more alarming. I fell. The […]
The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!
By John Foster | – (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Monitor) – When we talk about today’s geopolitical hotspots, we need to talk about petroleum AT THE UN General Assembly in 2018, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl broke an unwrit-ten taboo by talking about oil and war. “The recent wars imposed on the Middle East […]
Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping
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 […]
“Ghost Tankers:” Can Iran Evade Trump’s Severe Sanctions on its Oil Sales?
(RFE/RL) – The United States has pledged to cut Iran’s oil exports to “zero,” denying Tehran a key source of revenue through tough sanctions and the threat of stiff penalties to potential buyers. But economists say that while the U.S. measures will hit Iranian oil sales, which account for 70 percent of the country’s revenues, […]
Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon
By Ken Hughes | – Like Donald Trump, Richard Nixon tried to stonewall congressional investigations into crimes allegedly committed in the White House. “Why, we’ll just let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell,” Nixon said. But the stone wall crumbled under pressure from the public, Congress and the courts, and its […]
Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can’t Refuse
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 […]
Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to join Press against Iran; Iraq declines
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 Gets all the Goodies, Palestinians Screwed: First-ever Reveal of ‘Deal of the Century’ Details
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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