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Crime
Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the offices in the Rockefeller Center of Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, that allowed them to gain access and to spend hours going through and confiscating documents and equipment. Trump lambasted […]
Israel: Netanyahu’s Top Allies Arrested in Ongoing Corruption Probe
TeleSur | – – A former Netanyahu spokesman and the former director of the communications ministry are among the persons arrested. Two close associates of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have been named in the ongoing corruption probe against Netanyahu. Nir Hefetz, a former Netanyahu spokesman, and Shlomo Filber, the former director of the communications […]
What Does Netanyahu Corruption Case tell us about Trump’s Fate?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Israeli police have recommended that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu be indicted for corruption. The recommendation now goes to attorney general Avichai Mandelblit, who may or may not decide to act on it. Although 60% of Israelis in polling have said they wanted Netanyahu to step down […]
Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – 2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). There was the investigation of the two-star commander of U.S. Army Africa who allegedly sent racy texts to an enlisted man’s wife. There was the investigation into the alleged killing of a Special Forces soldier by […]
Blood oil: more than half of the oil traded across the world has been stolen
By Leif Wenar | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump tweeted something true recently. Responding to the protests in Iran, the US president stated that “The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered.” Trump’s point is correct: what vice-president Mike Pence called Iran’s “unelected […]
Human Rights Win in Iran: Thousands of Death Sentences for Drugs Dropped
Centre for Human Rights in Iran | Trans. & Ed. Global Voices Online An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related crimes could have their death sentences revoked, following a judicial order based on the country’s newly amended drug trafficking law. The order, issued by Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani on January […]
Trump allegedly Paid $130,000 to Porn Star for Her Silence
TeleSur | – – The deal was brokered by President Trump’s lawyer with the adult-film actress a month before the 2016 presidential elections. U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney arranged a US$130,000 payment to a former porn star before the 2016 election to keep her from going public about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, […]
The Fempire Strikes Back: #MeToo and the Man-Monsters
By Ann Jones. | ( Tomdispatch.com First, for the record, let me tell you my story about another of those perversely creepy Hollywood predators, a sort of cut-rate Harvey Weinstein: the screenwriter and film director James Toback. As I read now of women he preyed upon year after year, I feel the rage that’s bubbled […]
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