Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Bloc, which dominated Iraqi legislative polls last year, has submitted a bill to parliament that would, if passed, require all foreign military personnel to leave the country within one year, Anadolu Agency reports. At a Friday press conference in Baghdad, Sairoon Chairman Sabah Assadi said the proposed “Law against Foreign Military Deployments […]
Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees
Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries early this decade, forcing people to flee, researchers said on Wednesday, publishing evidence they said proved the connection for the first time, reports Reuters. The study used data from asylum applications in 157 countries from 2006-2015, together with an index that […]
Roseanne Barr calls Natalie Portman ‘Repulsive’ over Israeli Prize Refusal
Comedian Roseanne Barr has called Natalie Portman “repulsive” after the Jacky star declined to accept an Israeli film award last year. The former Roseanne star made the comments ahead of her own visit to Israel, during which she will address the Israeli parliament. Barr, 66, who was promoting her upcoming trip to Israel in an […]
War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority
By Ramzy Baroud | – The Israeli-US war declared on the Palestinian boycott movement is coming to a head, culminating in a well-orchestrated effort aimed at suffocating any form of tangible protest of the ongoing Israeli colonization of Palestine. But an Israeli ‘victory’, even with blind US government support, is still too elusive if at […]
Syria Kurds Reject proposed “safe zone” under Turkey Control
The Kurds in Syria yesterday rejected a US proposal to establish a 20 mile safe zone on the Syrian-Turkish border under Turkey’s control. Kurdish leader Aldar Khalil instead proposed that the UN deploy peacekeeping troops along the separation line between Turkish and Kurdish fighters, saying: “Other options cannot be accepted because they infringe on the […]
Israel: Key Far-Right Faction to be Headed by even Farther-Right anti-Palestinian Ideologue
(Middle East Monitor) – An extreme right-wing member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has been elected to lead a faction of the Jewish Home party. Bezalel Smotrich MK is renowned for his pro-settlement views. Smotrich, who currently serves as the Deputy Knesset Speaker, was elected yesterday to head the National Union, an extreme faction […]
Ostracized by Neighbors, Qatar aims to Invest $45 bn in United States
Qatar Investment Authority aims to raise investments in the United States to $45 billion in the next two years as it rebalances its portfolio of assets away from Europe, its chief executive said on Sunday according to a Reuters report. The sovereign wealth fund has built up a huge European portfolio through stakes in companies […]
Snowden: If Israel’s NSO had Refused Sale to Saudis, Khashoggi would be Alive
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden has said that if Israeli spyware firm NSO Group had refused to sell its technology to Saudi Arabia, murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi would still be alive. In an exclusive interview with Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published yesterday, Snowden stressed: “There is a real possibility that if NSO had refused to […]
Is Rashida Tlaib in Sights of Israel Lobbies b/c she is a Palestinian Muslim Congresswoman?
By Nasim Ahmed ( @nasim_nahmed ) – One of the founding myths of Israel is the non-existence of the Palestinian people. Tragically this myth served the country to great effect especially in denying the return of refugees (750,000, half the population) to their country following their expulsion in 1948 and in continually hindering the Palestinian […]
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