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Archives for June 2020

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War Zone America

War Zone America

Tomdispatch

By Andrea Mazzarino | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, in this Black Lives Matter protest moment, my five-year-old son looked at me and asked, “Mommy, where did all the brown people go? Did the police here shoot them?” We’d just moved to the outskirts of a more affluent rural town from a city where my son […]

Featured
PM Netanyahu's son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv

PM Netanyahu’s son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the US and even Israel have seen Black Lives Matter protests, Yair Netanyahu, 28, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu– who lives in the prime minister’s residence– called on Sunday for Israelis of Palestinian descent to be expelled from Tel Aviv. https://t.co/PVev5KoWo9 submitted by /u/appstools232323 [link] [comments] […]

Donald Trump
Trump dumped the World Health Organization in the midst of a Global Pandemic.  Why?

Trump dumped the World Health Organization in the midst of a Global Pandemic. Why?

ProPublica

By Sebastian Rotella, James Bandler and Patricia Callahan | – ( ProPublica ) – Right before President Donald Trump unveiled punitive measures against China on May 29, he inserted a surprise into his prepared text. “We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization,” he announced during a press conference in the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Is the ‘Boycott Israel’ (BDS) Movement Poised for a Big Expansion as Annexation of Palestine Looms?

Is the ‘Boycott Israel’ (BDS) Movement Poised for a Big Expansion as Annexation of Palestine Looms?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights campaigners by French courts for BDS protests they staged more than a decade ago. In September 2009 and May 2010, the […]

Green Energy
In 2020, Wind and Solar could cover nearly Six Months of Germany's Annual Power Demand

In 2020, Wind and Solar could cover nearly Six Months of Germany’s Annual Power Demand

Benjamin Wehrmann

(Clean Energy Wire) – The amount of electricity produced with renewable energy sources in Germany within one year could theoretically power the country for 172 days, energy provider E.ON has calculated. Germany’s “Green Energy Day” thus would be on 20 June in 2020 – 47 percent of the whole year, and more than two weeks […]

Donald Trump
Trump at Tulsa as 21st Century Typhoid Mary, as Fauci Warns on Rally, Science-Bashing

Trump at Tulsa as 21st Century Typhoid Mary, as Fauci Warns on Rally, Science-Bashing

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scientists know the story of Typhoid Mary, an immigrant from Ireland to the US in the late 19th century. She had typhoid, but refused to admit it, and was hired as a maid, and by 1907 some 3,000 New Yorkers had typhoid, and she was the super-spreader. Typhoid Mary rejected […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat,  w/out Trump, Parliament?

Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat, w/out Trump, Parliament?

Middle East Monitor

By Bilal Daher | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and its implementation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and leaders of the Blue and White […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel:  Nearly 100 Palestinian students arbitrarily arrested and detained by Occupation, often without trial

Israel: Nearly 100 Palestinian students arbitrarily arrested and detained by Occupation, often without trial

Committee on Academic Freedom

Middle East Studies Association / Committee on Academic Freedom | Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu Fax: +972-2-5664838 pm_eng@pmo.gov.il. . . Et al. . . . Brigadier General Rasan Alian Head of Civil Administration in the West Bank Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories Fax: +972-2-6599133 mnz@mgar.co.il Dear Prime Minister, Ministers, Ambassador, and Brigadier-General, We write […]

Uncategorized
From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre

From grandfather to grandson, the lessons of the Tulsa race massacre

The Conversation

By Gregory B. Fairchild | – My family sat down to watch the first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen” last October. Stephen Williams, the director, included quick cuts of gunshots, explosions, citizens fleeing roaming mobs, and even a plane dropping bombs. We’ve come to anticipate these elements in superhero films. As the sepia-toned footage spooled across […]

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