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Voters & Congress need to Stop Warmongers like Bolton via War Powers Act
By Sarah van Gelder | (Yes! Magazine) | – – A widespread show of support at the local level could embolden lawmakers toward a no-first-use […]
Inside the US war in Yemen
By Reese Erlich | (48Hills.org) | – – The American military and complex Middle East politics create a horrible humanitarian crisis One of the most […]
A Second Palestine? Neo-Ottoman “Sultan” Erdogan Captures Syria’s Kurdish Enclave of Afrin
By Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey’s capture of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria has added a new […]
China met Carbon Intensity Goals 3 Years Early, but it Isn’t Nearly Enough
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am not a fundamentalist in any other area of life. But I am a carbon […]
Egypt’s Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov’t is Unstable
By Pamela Abbott & Andrea Teti | (The Conversation) | – – Egyptians are voting in presidential elections on March 26-28. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who […]
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers
this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted
All Donald, All the Time: America’s Ruin as Spectacle
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even […]
Could China oil Exchange & Green Energy pull the plug on the Dollar?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Kate Duguid at Reuters reports the alarm at UBS that China’s new oil futures exchange will […]
Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump
Middle East Monitor | – – Construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank surged 17 per cent during the first year of US President […]