By David Korten | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter. Four days after President Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the Global Footprint Network (GFN) reported that Earth Overshoot Day 2017 will fall […]
Tense Eid for 1.2 mn Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
By Billie Jeanne Brownlee | (The Conversation) | – – For Syrian refugees in Lebanon marking the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it has been a struggle to find enough food to break their fast each evening after sunset. This is not what Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, the festival at its end, should be about. […]
Trump’s attack on a Fair Internet Threatens Free Speech
By Corynne McSherry | Electronic Frontier Foundation | – – Several US senators spoke out this week on the importance of net neutrality to innovation and free speech. They are right. The Internet has become our public square, our newspaper, our megaphone. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to turn it in something more akin […]
4 Nations twist Qatar’s arm, to close down Aljazeera
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a bid completely to return the Middle East to the old system of strict government media censorship, four countries have demanded that Qatar close down the Aljazeera television channel. Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made the demands formally via Kuwait, which […]
Was ISIL’s destruction of Mosul’s Nuri Mosque Grand Strategy?
By Benjamin Isakhan and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona | (The Conversation) | – – On June 29 2014 – nearly three years ago to the day – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the pulpit at the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri in Mosul in northern Iraq. He announced the creation of a new Islamic State that stretched […]
What will Happen when Trump’s Dupes Find Out?
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps. I am from birth a member of the WHAM tribe, that once proud, but now embattled conglomeration of white, heterosexual American males. We have long been — there’s no denying […]
All Signs from Trump Point to a Coming Conflict with Iran
By John Feffer | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – Behind all of Trump’s boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge for confrontation with Iran. The Saudi war in Yemen is really directed at…Iran. Donald Trump’s first overseas visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel was specifically targeted at…Iran. The Saudi-led isolation […]
What to do when anti-Muslim Hate Speech now passes the Dinner Table Test?
By Chris Allen | (The Conversation) | – – On hearing the news that Darren Osborne was arrested for terror offences including attempted murder following an attack on a group of Muslims near the Finsbury Park Mosque, it would have been easy to jump to the conclusion that the act was motivated by far-right ideologies. […]
Will New Crown Prince in Riyadh Usher in Open Saudi-Israeli Alliance?
TeleSur | – – The young Saudi king-in-waiting has been hailed as a “modernizer” for his open support of normalizing ties with the Israeli occupation, first and foremost. The Gulf Arab “game of thrones” took a dramatic turn Tuesday in Riyadh with the sudden ousting of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and the issuance […]
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