The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Posted by Matti K on April 18, 2018 The power grid has collapsed in Puerto Rico and the entire island lost power on the morning of April 18, 2018. The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately known, but island officials and media confirmed electricity […]
Israel to French Mayor: You can’t visit Occupied Palestine if you stand against Occupation
TeleSur | – – Leclerc Patrice, a member of the French Communist Party, has been denied entry into Israel more than once for his support of the BDS movement. France’s Foreign Ministry requested Tuesday that Israeli authorities allow entry for elected officials into Israel and occupied Palestinian territories, a day after the mayor of Gennevilliers, […]
Why do Red State Teachers need to Strike for a living Wage? It is about Class
By Steve Fraser | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Teachers in red-state America are hard at work teaching us all a lesson. The American mythos has always rested on a belief that this country was born out of a kind of immaculate conception, that the New World came into being and has forever after been […]
With Turkish Troops in Syria, is Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism a Diplomatic or Military Project?
By Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | – – On our third trip to Istanbul, my wife and I visited the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, once the administrative centre of the Ottoman Empire. As we toured the 285-room palace my wife was struck with not just how well preserved it was, but that it was […]
What People get wrong about Iranian-Americans (Looking at you, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton) (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | – – “What do you think of when you hear “Persian” or “Iranian”? Iranian-Americans (aka Persians) break down common myths and misconceptions about them, and tell the world what being “Persian” really means. Iranian-Americans (aka Persians) break down common myths and misconceptions about them, and tell the world what […]
Growing up with Fear of Gun Violence in America: The Weaponization of Everyday Life
By Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more experience with them. As it happens, I’ve held a […]
As Lebanon prepares to vote, Amnesty for the disenfranchised provokes Fierce Debate
Haley Bobseine | (Informed Comment) | – – After almost a decade of multiple postponements stalling the national political process and depriving citizens of their right to vote, Lebanese parliamentary elections will be held next month under a new legal framework. Passed in June 2017, the new election law replaces the majoritarian system with multi-member […]
Behind the Struggle with Mueller & Comey: Trump is the Triumph of Privilege over Law
By Martin Powers | (Informed Comment) | – – Frustration and bewilderment are common in media accounts of this administration’s expansive chaos. Even well educated writers turn to expletives, as if proper language were inadequate to convey the shock and dismay. Still, it is not that difficult to identify the source of puzzlement: neither Trump […]
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Campaign escalates into War of Missiles
Khalil Dewan @KhalilDewan | Middle East Monitor | – – As Mohammed Bin Salman’s global tour continues in a bid to stabilise Riyadh’s economy, his foreign policy needs revising to ensure political and security risks aren’t deepening. After three years fighting in Yemen’s civil war, the Houthis have stepped-up their strategy and are going after […]
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