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The Pope Says Yes to Palestine: Embassy Opens in Vatican
TeleSur | – – On Saturday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Pope Francis to inaugurate Palestine’s first embassy to the Holy See ahead of […]
From Syria to Sanctions, Flynn-Russia Quid Pro Quo?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The headlines about Trump and his team on the one hand and the Russian Federation on […]
2017: The Rise of the Demagogues: Trump & the Euro-Populists
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington, DC) – The rise of populist leaders in the United States and Europe poses a dangerous threat to […]
Assange Agrees to Extradition if US Releases Chelsea Manning
TeleSur | – – Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence in solitary confinement for handing over 700,000 sensitive documents from the U.S. State Department. […]
Is the next big US-Iran Conflict control of Iraq-Syria Border?
Mustafa Habib| (Niqash.org) | – – The border of Syria and Iraq looks likely to be the next testing ground for the newly conciliatory – […]
All the President’s Deniers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This week, we’ve seen a parade of Donald J. Trump’s far-right cabinet appointees attempting to tone […]
Israeli Parliament self-boycotts by seeking to Ban BDS Supporters from Israel
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Knesset committee approved on Wednesday a first reading of a bill that would ban supporters […]
The US media pack needs to rediscover its teeth, for the Sake of Democracy
By Carmel O’Toole | (The Conversation) | – – In the style of some thuggish boxing promoter at a weigh in, the US president-elect, Donald […]
The Russian Honeypot: Putin has had big plans for Donald Trump
By John Feffer | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – [I wrote this article about Russian efforts to cultivate Donald Trump as an asset […]