IMEMC News | – – An Israeli Finance Minister, who is in charge of implementing a law to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank, is himself living in an unlicensed building in an illegal colonial settlement on Occupied Palestinian land – and he is just one of many Israeli officials living in illegal settlements, […]
Trump sees Press as Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders
By IPS News Desk | – – ROME (IPS) – “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media and blatant disregard for facts in the first three days of Donald Trump’s presidency,” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Trump and his team “to stop undermining the First Amendment and start defending it.” […]
Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy
By Phyllis Bennis | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started. Very soon, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order regarding refugees and entry to the U.S. for a whole swathe of people. In effect, […]
From Ugly American to American Bully
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I came of age during America’s Cold War with the Soviet Union, witnessing its denouement while serving in the U.S. military. In those days, the USSR led the world’s weapons trade, providing arms to the Warsaw Pact (the military alliance it dominated) as well […]
How Trump’s ‘Alternative Facts’ Will bite his own Supporters on the Ass
By Peter Certo | ( Otherwords.org ) | – – If Trump can sell a plain-as-day lie about his inauguration crowd, he can lie about anything — including things that hurt his own supporters. About an hour after Donald Trump was sworn in, I was having lunch with my wife and our five-month-old. As we […]
US Government Scientists Go ‘Rogue’ in Defiance of Trump
TeleSur | – – Twitter accounts are being used as a tool of resistance to fight censorship and bring reliable scientific information to the public. Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial “rogue” Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump […]
In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See: Going Local, remaining Indivisible
By H Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” Writing decades ago, the poet Theodore Roethke could not have foreseen these dimmest of times. Piercing the dark ages of this presidency, bulging with billionaires, climate deniers, generals where civilians should be, and thieves of women’s […]
Why the Great Wall of Trump will be a Costly Failure
David Cook Martín | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump tweeted on Jan. 6 that “any money spent on building the Great Wall (for the sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later.” The Economist reports that 40 countries have built fences since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirty of these […]
Council of Europe condemns illegal Israeli siege of Gaza as ‘collective punishment’
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a report on Tuesday outlining the dire humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip and reiterating its support for lifting the decade-long siege of the territory, which it called “collective punishment” imposed on Palestinians in contravention of […]
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