Informed Comment - Part 995

“A Smoking Saw”: Bin Salman Loses Support of Key GOP Senators with CIA Briefing

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Among the things Saudi Arabia wants from the United States is support for its war on Yemen and permission to […]

Juan Cole

Israel

Israel: Thousands of Women Protest State Inaction over Femicide

Concerts and performance art filled the region as women protested the state’s inaction in the face of injustice. Some 20,000 women are banding together to […]

TeleSur

Israel/ Palestine

Israel Violence spikes as it Kills 24, injures 232 Palestinians in November

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A total of 24 Palestinians have died and 232 others were injured in the month of November from Israeli army-related attacks, according […]

Maan News Agency

Donald Trump

Mueller Lenient toward Flynn because of ‘Substantial Assistance’ in Trump Probe

Washington, United States | AFP | – (AFP) Michael Flynn’s guilty plea was the first secured by the investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s […]

AFP

Climate Change

Grassroots at COP24 Demand end of Coal as Poland Lobbies for It

Crops will be destroyed not just by flooding and rain but also by droughts. Yet this urgency is not reflected in the actions of governments

AFP

Democratic Party

Massive Blue Wave Answered GOP Bigotry, but also Challenges Dem Establishment

A new House majority will be nearly 1/2 women, 1/3 people of color, and include more Muslim Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQ members

Tomdispatch

Featured

Congressional Noose may Tighten around Saudi Crown Prince as Haspel Testifies

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration was so annoyed by the line of the Central Intelligence Agency that Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change