By Dorina-Maria Buda | – There are often marches and demonstrations in support of Palestine in cities around the world, but for those who want to visit the region, a thriving tourism industry has emerged in recent years. “Solidarity tourists” arrive at all times of year to help improve the lives of ordinary Palestinians, with […]
Israel is hoarding the Jordan River – The Palestinians and Jordan Need their Share
By Mark Zeitoun and Muna Dajani | – Two areas farmed by Israelis for more than 50 years have recently been returned to neighbouring Jordan. The first, al Ghamr (known in Israel as Zofar), is located south of the Dead Sea in the Naqab/Negev desert. The second, al Baqura (Naharayim) is found at the fertile […]
Trump is 3rd President in History to be Impeached; But will Senate Remove Him?
By Brendon O’Connor and Daniel Cooper | – The US House of Representatives voted today to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the third president in the history of the United States to be impeached. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump. The first stated that Trump committed […]
Founders: Removal from Office is not the only Purpose of Impeachment
By Clark D. Cunningham< | - As Congress considers formal charges of impeachment against President Donald Trump, they should consider words spoken at the Constitutional Convention, when the Founders explained that impeachment was intended to have many important purposes, not just removing a president from office. A critical debate took place on July 20, 1787, […]
Did Plato’s Republic warn Democracies about Trump 2,394 Years Ago?
By Matthew Sharpe | – Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes. And The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to Plato’s thought. There are few subjects that Plato’s masterpiece does not touch or play on: political theory, education, […]
Result of 50 yrs of the New Right: Trump Will Stay, GOP will Cling to Him
By J.M. Opal | – Donald Trump is no Richard Nixon. Nixon was a bully, a cynic and a crook who did all kinds of damage to American politics and society, not to mention to Cambodia and Vietnam, too. And yet he had a sense of obligation to his office — and to the Republican […]
Now that Australian Wildfires are choking its Cities with Smoke, Can we Finally talk Climate Emergency?
By Blanche Verlie | – I moved to Sydney less than five weeks ago and the city has been shrouded in smoke haze on and off since then. I joke this is my “Sydney hazing” but it’s only now – having worked on climate change for over a decade – that I’m suddenly feeling burnt […]
Britain Votes Overwhelmingly to Leave Europe Now with Boris Johnson Landslide
By Laura Hood | – Results are still rolling in but it looks as though Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured a big victory in the British general election. He looks set to have gone from a minority government to a very large parliamentary majority. Projections based on exit polling and early results indicate his […]
Top 5 Reasons Buddhist Myanmar has been Charged with Genocide of Rohingya Muslims
By Catesby Holmes | – Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is defending Myanmar in court against accusations of genocide. According to a case brought by the country of Gambia at the United Nations’ International Court of Justice, the Myanmar military in August 2017 carried out a systematic, targeted campaign of terror, rape and murder […]
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