Informed Comment - Part 1075

Yemen: Outcry over Saudi Airstrikes on Children Marks 3 Years of War

Sanaa (AFP) – A Saudi-led coalition launched military operations in Yemen in 2015, helping the government to push back against rebels who had taken control […]

AFP

Donald Trump

Trump Slashes more than $200 mn in Aid to Palestinians

Washington (AFP) – The United States said Friday that it had canceled more than $200 million in aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip […]

AFP

Donald Trump

With South Africa Conspiracy Theory, Trump is becoming Dylann Roof

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White nationalist terrorist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine African-Americans in a church, including a sitting state senator, confessed himself deeply […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

Anti-Trumpism as a Global–and Domestic–Movement

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing already seems clear in the Trump era: the world will not turn out to be the American president’s playground. […]

Dilip Hiro

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza is Running out of Fuel, Medicine: UN

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine

It Took Me Three Decades to Drive One Hour from Gaza to Jerusalem

By Abier Almasri | – Traveling Under Occupation Almost Impossible for Palestinians Locked Inside Gaza Earlier this year, the Israeli army gave me a permit […]

Human Rights Watch

Uncategorized

Int’l Court of Justice Hears Iran’s Suit against Trump’s Unilateral Sanctions

The Hague (AFP) – Iran’s legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States goes before the UN’s top court Monday, as Tehran seeks to […]

AFP

Donald Trump

Is Trump’s Fascism part of the Reason for Cohen’s Willingness to Indict Him?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I can only imagine that some Jewish and other minority members of the Trump administration experience significant discomfort at being […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence