By Pat Hynes | ( Truthdig ) | – – As secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was visibly shaken by sexual crimes against women and girls when she visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2009. Sexual crimes in this central African country, known as the “rape capital of the world,” include the sexual […]
Israel Envy and Trump’s Wall
By Shalom Goldman | (Patheos) | – – In the current presidential campaign, Republicans and Democrats seem to be competing with each other to proclaim their “pro-Israel” stances. In a March address to AIPAC Hillary Clinton said, “I feel so strongly that America can’t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel’s security or survival.” […]
Muslim American Voters in Swing States Calling for Total & Complete Shutdown of Trump Candidacy
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Video Report) | – – “Muslims have come up more in this election than ever before. But did you know they could actually swing the election? AJ+’s Dena Takruri reports from the battleground state of Florida.” AJ+: “Does The Muslim American Vote Matter?”
Why couldn’t the Corporate Old Boys’ Network Stop Trump?
By Johan Chu & Jerry Davis | (The Conversation) | – – If corporate money controls our politics, as Bernie Sanders and others have claimed, then how did the Republican Party – the reputed party of business – manage to nominate a candidate whom almost no one in Big Business supports? And why have so […]
American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq outlive Anti-War Legend Tom Hayden, RIP
TeleSur | – – A prolific author of over 20 books, Hayden cut his teeth as a student activist against the U.S. war in Vietnam with Students for a Democratic Society. Veteran social activist and politician Tom Hayden, a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society who served 18 years in California’s state legislature […]
Remember when Nazis stripped Jews of Citizenship? Now Israeli Right wants To
TeleSur | – – Coalition whip MK David Bitan also wants to strip citizenship from B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad, after he made calls to sanction Israel. “The only democracy in the Middle East” has a prominent politician calling for legislation to bar Israelis from advocating for sanctions against the state at global colloquiums. Coalition whip […]
Gun Industry in US kills 7 Kids a Day
By Gary Younge | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Every day, on average, seven kids and teens are shot dead in America. Election 2016 will undoubtedly prove consequential in many ways, but lowering that death count won’t be one of them. To grapple with fatalities on that scale — 2,500 dead children annually — […]
101st Illegal Land Grab: Israel Squatters Seize Palestinian-owned lands in Jordan Valley
IMEMC News | – – Late last week, Israeli settlers reportedly took over a Palestinian-owned area of land in al-Humma region of the northern Jordan Valley, and laid down an infrastructure, according to a local official. Jordan Valley Panorama, h/t Wikipedia M’otaz Bsharat, in charge of the settlement file in the Jordan Valley, said that […]
Norman Finkelstein on 58 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Tommaso Segantini interviews Norman Finkelstein | (TeleSur) | – – Renowned scholar and political activist Norman Finkelstein speaks with teleSUR English about a range of issues around Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The year 2017 will mark the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories during the 1967 war. In this exchange with freelance journalist […]
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