By Jim Hightower | (Otherwords.org) | – – 60 percent of Americans support single payer health care. So why is the party leadership dragging its feet? Good news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine, and are beginning to act like… well, like progressives. In particular, a majority of […]
The Fall of the House of ISIL: Reduced from State to Random Terror
John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – ISIL* is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended. The Middle East today is enduring a replay of World War II — with the Islamic State in the […]
CIA Cache: Bin Laden loved watching ‘Resident Evil’
TeleSur | – – The CIA released the confidential materials “in the interest of transparency and to enhance public understanding of al-Qaida.” The CIA has released previously secret files seized from Osama bin Laden’s hideout on the day he was killed, including his private journal, favourite video games and vast collection of animated kids’ films. […]
Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bethlehem city on Wednesday following a march commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document which supported establishing a Jewish state on what would become British Mandate Palestine, and paved the what for the to […]
How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?
By Rachel Caufield | (The Conversation) | – – Five months into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of cooperation between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, Americans are seeing the first legal maneuvers in the case. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates surrendered to U.S. District […]
Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?
By Ramzy Baroud | (TeleSur) | – – Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the U.S. security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary people from the United States. U.S. Senate Bill S.720 should have been a wake-up call. The bill, drafted by the Israel lobby group, U.S. Israel Public Affairs […]
Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship
By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” he made the case that, under his administration, Washington […]
Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con
By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Yesterday the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign and the architect of last year’s Republican National Convention got up, got out of bed, drank his coffee and went to jail. Shortly thereafter, one of the president’s erstwhile foreign policy advisors was revealed to be a […]
Rebuking Trump, IAEA Again Certifies Iran Compliance on Nuclear Deal
Zein Basravi | Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | – – “Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was in Tehran on Sunday, his first visit since US President Donald Trump told Congress that Iran is not complying with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), more commonly known as […]
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