Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump has openly and consistently given Saudi control of oil prices as the reason for which he doesn’t want to sanction Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman for having dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and then dismembered. Trump is, as usual, wildly exaggerating. Saudi Arabia produces perhaps 11% of the […]
India Doubles Iran Oil Imports: Are Trump’s Sanctions Cratering?
China is also resuming imports from Iran
3 Charts: What Trump doesn’t Want you to Know about the Climate Emergency
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration dropped the 1,000-page second volume of a congressionally-mandated study of the impact of the climate crisis on the United States late on Friday of Thanksgiving weekend in order to bury it. This sort of move is designed to make sure the report is not headline news on […]
CIA has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince planning Hit on Khashoggi: Turkish ‘Hurriyet’
The two Saudi officials are heard in the CIA recording discussing the “discomfort” created by Khashoggi’s public criticism
On Thanksgiving, We must confront our Climate Emergency as the Pilgrims did Theirs
Revised for 2018 By Juan Cole | — The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621, participated in by the 50 (out of 100) survivors at Plymouth Plantation and 90 Native Americans. Some of these latter, such as Squanto, […]
Top five ways Trump put America Last with Whitewash of Saudi Prince
Trump has dishonored the Constitution.
Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts
Airbnb, the giant online apartment rental site will delist 200 apartments of Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. The company has long been criticized for violating international law by dealing with the illegal colonists. Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza in 1967, and has introduced Apartheid rule there, keeping the Palestinians stateless. […]
On How Everything Sam Harris Says about Islam is Wrong (1)
Of the 100 million or so people I estimate were wiped out by political violence in the twentieth century, the vast majority of them were killed by secular nationalists, Communists and Fascists
Is the Green New Deal our Civil Rights Movement? John Lewis Joins
Veteran Congressman and Civil Rights icon John Lewis (D-GA) has joined the Green New Deal proposed by the Sunrise Movement and endorsed by newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Here is a video of his remarks, among them that the people “have a right to know what we are breathing.” Here’s the video of civil […]
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