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Archives for October 2021

Corporations
Big Money’s War on Biden's Popular Build Back Better Plan

Big Money’s War on Biden’s Popular Build Back Better Plan

OtherWords

By Sondra Youdelman | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Right now, corporations and the ultra-rich are spending millions to derail President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Behind the scenes, they’re hard at work to keep our elected officials from helping our country recover from the pandemic. Poll after poll tells us that Biden’s plan is […]

Campaign Finance
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema angers Progressives, draws support of 40% of Republicans

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

By Diannie Chavez and Brenda Rivas | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s refusal to back the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion social and clean-energy spending package has made her a target for Democrats – and possibly “the most powerful person in Washington right now,” one analyst said. It’s not […]

Climate Crisis
Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

Don’t be diverted from the Climate Emergency by Lifestyle Issues like Meat Eating

The Conversation

By Taha Yasseri and Mary Sanford | – Ten years ago, when we ranked the most controversial articles on Wikipedia, George W. Bush was at the top of the list with global warming at number five. The article on global warming has now been re-titled as climate change, but this remains among the most polarising […]

Featured
Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Dozens of masked Israeli Black Shirts attack homes in small Palestinian Town, Injure Residents, including a Toddler

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian newspaper Quds gives the details of an attack this week by Israeli squatter-settlers on native Palestinians of the small town of Mafriqa in the vicinity of al-Khalil (which the Israelis call Hebron). Palestinian rights organizations said that on Tuesday, 60 armed squatters with clubs and handguns and stones […]

Israel/ Palestine
UN:  Removal of Indigenous Population - 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

UN: Removal of Indigenous Population – 2020 saw the highest number of displaced Palestinians registered in Years

Ramona Wadi

( Middle East Monitor) – Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise in Palestine-Israel is based. Palestine’s economy is tied perpetually to donor funding and Israel’s existence. “Recovery in 2021 and beyond hinges on actions that will be taken (or not) by […]

Afghanistan
Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

Bearing witness in Afghanistan — a conversation with Kathy Kelly on ending war and listening to its victims

Waging Nonviolence

( Waging Noviolence ) – This week, Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook talk to Kathy Kelly, life-long nonviolence activist, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones Campaign. She discusses her extensive experience in and thoughts about Afghanistan. American intervention, she believes, was — and indeed, continues to be […]

Afghanistan
“A Horrible Mistake”:  Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

“A Horrible Mistake”: Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions

Andrew J. Bacevich

( Tomdispatch.com) – The bad news stemming from the ill-planned and ill-managed U.S. evacuation of the Afghan capital just kept coming in. The Washington Post put it this way in blowing the whistle on the culminating disaster: “U.S. military admits ‘horrible mistake’ in Kabul drone strike that killed 10 Afghans.” Following the August 26th terrorist […]

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