By Mel Frykberg | – – RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) – Three Palestinian fishermen were injured last week after Israeli naval forces opened fire on fishing boats off the coast of al-Sudaniyya in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing to 15 the number of farmers and fishermen shot and injured by Israeli security forces recently as […]
By the Time Washington wakes up to China’s Eurasian Strategy will it be too Late?
By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn’t know it in Washington, though. America’s political, national security, and foreign policy elites continue to ignore the basics of geopolitics that have shaped the fate of world empires for the past 500 years. Consequently, […]
Did Jeb Bush’s brother “Create ISIL” in Iraq?
by Brian Glyn Williams It was one of those moments that politicians dread. An unscripted incident last month when a voice in a crowd pinned down a candidate on an issue he could not squirm away from and made news in the process. With the media recording every word, a 19 year old college student […]
US view of Iraqi Army, before & after 2003 (Political Cartoon)
By Khalid Bendib | (Otherwords.org) | (Political Cartoon) Via Otherwords.org
At 450, Florida’s St. Augustine Faces Rising Waters of Manmade Climate Change as Governor Fiddles
Aljazeera America | (Video) “St. Augustine is one of the many cities seeing this alarming trend and fears that they may one day be submerged”
Fighting for Privacy, Two Years After Snowden
By Richard Esguerra | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – Two years ago today, Glenn Greenwald published in the Guardian a single document confirming a key piece of the NSA’s surveillance program, a document that fundamentally transformed EFF’s long-running battle for an end to unchecked government surveillance. To recap briefly, the document was a secret […]
UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouin
IMEMC | – – United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the forced relocation of Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank. PNN reports that Wibisono condemned Israeli plans for the forcible removal of several Bedouin communities from their lands in the West […]
Israeli forces suppress protest over fraudulent purchase of West Bank church
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday suppressed a march protesting the recent purchase by Israeli setters of a church compound in the southern West Bank. The 38 dunam compound, known as Beit al-Baraka, is located to the north of al-Arrub refugee camp between Bethlehem and Hebron. It has been in the spotlight since an […]
A Turkish Syriza? A radical democratic party and the new politics of the Mideast
By Omer Tekdemir | ( Your Middle East) Dr Omer Tekdemir analyzes a radical force in Turkish politics, which strives to protect democracy and represent all identities in society. Turkey’s forthcoming election (07 June 2015) carries huge expectations for the HDP (People’s Democracy Party) and its new radical politics that targets a wider, more colorful […]
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