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Archives: November 2016
Right-wing Israeli master plan injures rights in Palestinian E Jerusalem
Ma'an News Agnecy | JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- A recent master plan presented by right-wing Jewish activists envisions a “greater Jerusalem” extending far beyond the current municipal boundaries, and a future for the…
Will Trump Bring in a New Era of Surveillance and Torture?
TeleSur | - - Trump's picks for important security positions look intent on rolling back civil liberties. While there are many questions about what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will change once he…
Trump’s Pentagon Hunger Games: The Generals “haven’t done the job.”
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - President-elect Donald Trump’s message for the nation’s senior military leadership is ambiguously unambiguous. Here is he on 60 Minutes just days after…
Is Jimmy Carter right that Obama should Recognize Palestine?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Jimmy Carter wrote and NYT op-ed yesterday in which he called on Barack Obama to arrange for the UN Security Council to recognize…Will Trump cancel Iran deal or practice the Art of the Deal?
by Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - US President-elect Donald Trump’s bluster about the Iran nuclear deal has created a lot of confusions and uncertainties about the fate of the…
Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial
TeleSur | - - Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, was…
The Last Days of Democracy?
By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy in Focus | - - A fraudulent campaign has resulted in the election of a fraudulent president. What can be done to…
Conspiracy Theorist in Chief: Trump’s falsehood about 2 mn. illegal votes only tip of Melting Iceberg
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Americans have given the nuclear codes to that crazy uncle you have to sit through Thanksgiving with who watches nut cases like Alex…
Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?
By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | - - The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era fantasies. He gained a few more adversaries…
Frackopoly
by H. Patricia Hynes | ( Truthdig.com) | - - Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment A book by Wenonah Hauter (The New Press, 2016) Branding fracked…
The Manhattan White House, the Secret Service, and the Painted Bikini Lady
By Nick Turse | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - High above, somewhere behind the black glass façade, President-elect Donald J. Trump was huddled with his inner circle, plotting just how they would…
In Trump’s Shadow, is East Aleppo on Verge of falling to Regime, Russia?
By Juan Cole | - - In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Russian backer have thrown caution to the wind. No less…
Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn’t have elected Trump
By Bill Emmott | (Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US President-elect Donald Trump will behave in office…
The Catastrophic Downstream Effects of Trump Anti-Climatism
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 2016 (IPS) - Although U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hinted he may be softening his stance on climate…
When Reagan backed S. Africa Racism and Castro inspired Mandela
TeleSur | - - The world remembers Nelson Mandela as the freedom fighter and president who liberated South Africa from apartheid. But many look back with a selected memory of how the…
Fidel Castro’s Top Moments in the Middle East
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Fidel Castro is dead at 90. He presided over the only pro-USSR Communist state in the Western Hemisphere, and was therefore a thorn…
Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East
By Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | - - The election of Trump will give second wind to autocrats in the region as well as create space for the growth of…
WikiLeaks Yemen Files Unmask Washington’s Bloody Role
TeleSur | - - More than 10,000 - mostly civilians - have been killed and more than 3 million have been displaced in the conflict. Whistleblowing organization Wikileaks on Friday dropped yet…
With Trump, we’ve all Entered the Dark Dimension of Dormamu
By James A. Haught | (Charleston Gazette-Mail) | - - Existentialists contend that humanity has a streak of irrational absurdity that defies logical understanding. The Donald Trump presidential victory rouses that feeling.…
Is Trump “Pro-Russian?” How will Russia Fare? Russians want to Know
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Russian op-ed writers are intrigued with Donald Trump, who has spoken of improving relations between the US and the Russian Federation. But…
Overheated Arctic: Climate Change ‘Vicious Circle’
TeleSur | - - Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016 —some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles)— on September 16. Freakishly…
World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave “alarming” on Wednesday.…
Raining Bombs: Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians
By a Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | - - Inside their homes, a lack of food and water; outside, bombs, snipers and crossfire. Yet many Mosul locals are choosing to…
IC Annual Fundraiser: Now more than Ever
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Let's get this done, friends. I can't do it all by myself, and need your contributions to succeed. Since 2002, Informed Comment has…
DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival
Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | --- The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621,…
Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care
Ma'an News Agency | - - GAZA (Ma’an) -- Health services in a children’s hospital in Gaza will be suspended for more than a day due to a lack of fuel to…
From Wanda Sykes to ACLU: How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump
TeleSur | - - Building a wall of support against Trump’s wall of rhetoric is the way forward. Wanda Sykes, a Black lesbian comedian, was booed because she dared to rant against…
Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump’s white supremacist fanbase
By Nicholas Guyatt | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the presidency has put racism at the heart of American politics. From the very start of his campaign,…
Will Turkey leave NATO for Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Council?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan is talking about joining the Shanghai Cooperation Council as a full member as a reaction to his frustrations with…
Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era
By Heike Schotten | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong.The…
American Muslims & the Trump Administration with Juan Cole
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | Video Interview | - - "The election of Donald Trump was a shock to the American political system and, in its wake, many are…
Will Trump bolster the Military-Industrial Complex?
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - As with so much of what Donald Trump has said in recent months, his positions on Pentagon spending are, to be…
Iraq: Hundreds of Police bodies found in ISIS Mass Grave
Human Rights Watch | - - Witnesses Describe Executions (Erbil) – A mass grave discovered near Mosul by Iraqi Security Forces on November 7, 2016, most likely contains the bodies of at…
CNN’s Chyron wonders if Jews are People, inspired by Trumpist Neofascism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Richard Spencer is a rock star of the Neofascist movement that hides behind the euphemism "alt-right." (Since they're always going on about how…
Trump Effect: Israel to Resume Construction of Thousands of “Frozen” Settlement Units
IMEMC News | - - The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee, on Sunday, announced that Israel intends to build thousands of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, now that Donald…
Now Trump’s Targets: Many US Latinos fled chaos of Reagan’s anti-Left crusade
By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | - - In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign promises that he actually plans to keep.…
5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the “Hamilton” Tiff
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump is the master of misdirection, the techniques magicians use to get you to look elsewhere while they perform their sleight of hand.…
No to the New Normal
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The night after the election, this long-time pacifist dreamed she shot a big white man carrying an arsenal of guns. He was wandering…
After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a new Shiite-sponsored plan that will try and…
US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights
Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections,…
Bad Rain Falling: Who’s to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?
By Todd Gitlin | (Billmoyers.com) | - - These days are for resistance to the abomination that has befallen us; as also for decent conduct among our injured humanity of every shape…
Is Lt.-Gen. Flynn Right that Islam is not a Religion?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The new National Security Adviser to incoming President Donald J. Trump, Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn, has called Islam a "cancer" and maintained that it…
Which of Trump’s Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?
TeleSur | - - The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe. Donald Trump has disclosed more names to to…
Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels…
Why Internment of Japanese Americans is an outrageous Model for registering Muslim-Americans
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump adviser Carl Higbie told Megyn Kelly on Fox "News" that the new administration wanted to create a registration list of US Muslims,…
The Islamophobic Black-Ops Master who’ll Head Trump’s National Security Team
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - As former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was "one of the most influential figures in the…
Lieberman calls on Trump to help development of Israeli squatter settlements
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Amid a storm of postulations surrounding what the American President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would look like in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli…
16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change
AJ+ | (Video Report) | - - "Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government to demand action on climate change." AJ+: "16-Year-Old Sues Federal…
ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry
In his opening remarks at the Never is Now! Anti-Semitism Summit in New York, Anti-Defamation League National Director Jonathan Greenblatt pledged today that he would register as a Muslim should the Trump Administration…
Syria’s al-Assad: Trump “a natural ally”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In an interview with Portugal television Wednesday, according to al-Hayat, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said that Donald Trump will be "a natural ally"…
Trump’s Steve Bannon: Abusive, White Nationalist Media Baron
TeleSur | - - "You have an individual ... who's basically creating the ideological aspects of where we're going," said former imperial wizard, David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan. "And ideology…
What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad
Steve Scholl | (Spirituality and Health Magazine) | - - Muhammad has become a strangely unifying figure in America—able to get conservative Glenn Beck and liberal Bill Maher to agree that Islam…
Dear Mayor Giuliani: We can’t turn our backs on Syrian Refugees
Akil Awan | (Informed Comment) | - - I recently visited Jordan as part of my work on political violence and youth radicalisation for the United Nations on Security Council Resolution 2250.…
Will Trump do a deal with Iran or try to Overthrow its Government?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - For all his bluster about renegotiating the Joint Plan for Collective Action regarding Iran's nuclear enrichment program, which the members of the UN…
Will Trump really be Isolationist? Or will he March us to War?
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - “So is he going to win?” The question washed over me as I slumped in my hard plastic chair. I had passed the day…
FBI Confirms Rampant Islamophobia: Hate Crimes Surged by 67%
TeleSur | - - While anti-Muslims crimes shot up, Jews still remain the most frequent target of religious-based hate crimes in the U.S. From last year’s Chapel Hill shooting to the execution-style…
A Jerusalem Litmus Test
By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | - - A quick and early litmus test of Trump’s “pragmatism”: Will he move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? He promised…
Neofascist Trump Appointee Bannon: “Anger is a Good thing” “if you’re Fighting to Take this Country Back”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump named Neofascist Stephen Bannon as his White House strategist, a co-equal with incoming White House chief of staff and former RNC…
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
By Christopher M. Davidson | (Informed Comment) | - - Swept along on a tidal wave of euphoria, by spring 2011 many had cautiously begun to believe that the wave of Arab…
A Gwen Ifill Interview with Juan Cole on Iraq & US Withdrawal: In Memoriam
Gwen Ifill/ Juan Cole | (PBS NewsHour) | - - Gwen Ifill, long-time co-anchor of the PBS Newshour, is dead at 61, after a battle with cancer. She was an expert interviewer,…
Real-Life Trolling: How Provocation Works and How to Respond
By Joshua Cole | ( The Michigan Daily) Yesterday was the anniversary of the attacks in Paris at the Bataclan concert venue and other locations throughout the city. These terrorist attacks in…
Election Postmortem: Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride?
By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | - - According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Labor Unions Step Up Presidential Election Spending,” labor unions contributed to Hillary Clinton…
Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sting, 65, played a concert at the Bataclan Theater where ISIL terrorists killed 90 innocent people a year ago, in one of the…
Trump Vows to Deport up to 3 Million Undocumented Migrants Immediately
TeleSur | - - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump didn’t back down from his hardline stance on immigration Sunday in his first interview since winning the election, pledging to deport up to 3…
Do Trump Insiders’ links to Netanyahu, Iranian political Cult, Spell Trouble for Tehran?
By Arash Aziz | ( Globalvoices.org | - - Among the foreign policy think tanks and pundits of New York and DC, few supported Trump or even countenanced the possibility of his…
Israel to legalize squatter outposts in Palestinian West Bank, hinting at Annexation
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday evening unanimously approved a law that would retroactively legalize outposts in the occupied West Bank, a decision…
America through the Hell-Gate of Horn
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of order…
As Der Donald-inspired Hate Crimes grow, US Universities at Risk
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A tsunami of reports about hate crimes directed at minorities are coming in from all over the country in the wake of Der…
America’s Dark Underbelly is now its Face
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | - -
Spain joins US in slamming Israel’s expansion of Gilo squatter settlement
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The government of Spain released a statement on Friday joining the United States in condemning Israel’s recent approval of the construction of 181…
Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against The Taliban
By RFE/RL's Afghan Service The leader of a fledgling women's militia in northern Afghanistan says dozens of volunteers have joined the fight since a handful of women recently took up arms to…
Four years of Trump could really sink the planet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I argued that President Obama's carbon-reduction plan wasn't anything to write home about. He wanted to reduce our annual emissions from 5.4 billion…
How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over the country in the wake of his surprise victory on Tuesday. Latinos are afraid he will…
Putin targets East Aleppo rebels; Did Trump’s Election doom them?
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some 2,000 rebel fighters, most of them Muslim fundamentalists, others remnants of the Free Syrian Army, are trying to break the Syrian regime's…
Israeli Minister: Era of Palestinian State is over, w/ Trump Victory
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli and Palestinian authorities reacted on Sunday to the victory of Donald Trump in the American presidential elections, with one Israeli minister expressing his hopes that Trump's nomination would…
Trump may reset Russian ties but will the Mideast Stymie him?
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - Mr. Donald Trump’s electoral victory has created shockwaves worldwide. It was as unexpected as it was unwelcome to many peoples, particularly in the…
America’s Sisi: On What Has Been Lost, and What Must Be Done
David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - “When the people love you, that is the most important thing for me.” So spoke General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the onetime savior and…
Israeli parliament moves to ban Boycott, Divestment Backers from entering Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized on Monday for its first reading in the Israeli parliament, according to…
Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and the Clintons have arguably been the Establishment for 24 years. Since the…
Election Westworld? Bots were 20% of your Twitter News Feed
By Emilio Ferrara | (The Conversation) | - - Key to democracy is public engagement – when people discuss the issues of the day with each other openly, honestly and without outside…
European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’
By Herbert Vytiska | EurActiv.de | Translated By Samuel Morgan | EurActiv | - - Curbs on press freedom have been dramatically increased since the failed coup attempt against President Erdoğan. The…
Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Many of the anxieties that have roiled this year's election have had an underlying theme, of the decline of white America. Now, as…
Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?
By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land of the free, but a new global…
W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees
NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Palestinian farmers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus reported on Monday that Israeli settlers stole the harvest of 400 olive trees planted on their private lands.…
Iraq’s Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields
Human Rights Watch | - - All Forces Should Take Necessary Precautions to Protect Civilians (Erbil) – In areas around Mosul, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is forcibly evacuating civilians…
Top 5 Times the FBI intervened to Help the US Right Wing
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - What is unusual about the FBI's intervention in the 2016 election is not the intervention. The FBI tries to shape US politics every…
Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There
Special Correspondent | Baghdad | Niqash.org | - - NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent explains why people in the city did not resist the [so-called] Islamic State group at first, why his family and…
Get some Climate attitude: Ban Coal and forget about Carbon Capture
By Lili Fuhr | ( Project Syndicate ) BERLIN – Mainstream politics, by definition, is ill equipped to imagine fundamental change. But last December in Paris, 196 governments agreed on the need…
Growing Global Nuclear Threat – as if Election 2016 weren’t already bad enough
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was the perennial question: “Whose finger do you…
The Hatred that Trump’s Lies will Leave Behind
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Whether Trump wins or loses (and in my view there isn't much chance he can win), he will leave behind a toxic legacy…
Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina
By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,' says Rev. William Barber II of…
Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility
By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step under the gaze of, and with tacit…
The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians
By Aimee Shalan | al-Shabakah | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - Current British Complicity It is not only corporate entities such as G4S in the case of Dareen Tatour that are…
Top 5 urgent Climate Change/Election Stories MSM Suppressed
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I used the word "suppressed" in the title quite deliberately. Corporate television media in the United States is colluding in a cover-up of…
FBI Faction Hostile to Clinton Possibly Behind Leaks
TeleSur | - - Current FBI agents have told outlets that there are elements within the agency leaking info in order to favor Donald Trump. FBI Director James Comey was driven in…
Britain, Balfour, and 100 years of cultural repression of Palestinians (Part I)
By Aimee Shalan | Al-Shabaka | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - If Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour passes over the perimeter of her home’s driveway in her village of Reineh in the…
Payback Time: Mosul Militias Backstabbed By ISIL Plot Revenge
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - It's not only the Iraqi army gunning for the Islamic State in Mosul. The extremists’ former allies, who helped them control the…
Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Turkish government has detained 11 members of parliament from the leftist, feminist and pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),including the party's co-chairs. This…
How we gave up the Freedoms the Greatest Generation Fought & Died For
By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - To say that this is the election from hell is to insult hell. There’s been nothing like this since Washington forded the Rubicon or…
The Trump Golem Runs Amok
By Shalom Goldman | ( Patheos.com ) | - - A year ago, as U.S citizens of both political parties were developing a fascination with Donald Trump, no pundits came forth with…
Are Arabs White?
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Vidoe Report) | - - “White” – without the privilege. Arab-Americans are ready to check their own box on the U.S. census. Dena Takruri explains." AJ+: "Are Arabs…
Alt-Right Fever Swamp or 1st liberal Supreme Court in a Generation?
By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - The U.S. presidential election continues to grind agonizingly to its conclusion. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but America has turned into a kind…
Hasan Minhaj on New Brown America and His Superpowers
Hari Kondabolu and W. Kamau Bell interview Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj on their podcast Politically Re-Active. The interview begins at 31:49:
Save America from Trump to fix America, or, Did your Mother Drop you on Your Head?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When I trained as a lifeguard they warned us that you have to be very careful how you approach a drowning victim flailing…
The Struggle Of Palestinian Olive Farmers Under Israeli Occupation
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "These Palestinians can only access their land for a couple of days per year. This is how they harvest olives under occupation. Filmed by…
Civilians in both Aleppos are Hurting
By Hadeel al-Shalchi | (Human Rights Watch) | - - The small child cries hysterically on the hospital bed, covered in dust and blood. The video, posted by the pro-Syrian government news…
Black Mississippi Church Burned, Vandalized with ‘Vote Trump’
TeleSur | - - Hopewell Baptist Church is damaged by fire and graffiti in Greenville, Mississippi, U.S., Nov. 2, 2016. An online fundraising campaign was also set up to help the church…
War within War – Iraqi PM: We don’t want to fight Turkey but we’re Ready
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AFP Arabic reports that Iraqi PM Haydar al-Abadi said Tuesday that "We do not want a war with Turkey, and do not want…
Israel bans for 10 yrs. Mairead Maguire, others on International Women’s Boat to Gaza
By Mairead Maguire | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME, Nov 1 2016 (IPS) - A few weeks ago, the US government agreed to give Israel $38 billion dollars, the largest…
Colonizing the Dead: Israeli authorities demolish graves in East Jerusalem cemetery
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli Nature and Parks Authority forces demolished several graves inside a Palestinian cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, according to local…
If he wins: The Coming Trump Market Crash and Great Recession
By Simon Johnson | (Project Syndicate) | - - WASHINGTON, DC – With the United States’ presidential election on November 8, and a series of elections and other political decisions fast approaching…
Hizbullah’s Candidate becomes Lebanese President after Sunni Compromise
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Lebanon finally has a president, Michel Aoun. In accordance with the country's national pact, he is a Maronite Christian (a Catholic uniate church),…
Sectarian Tensions flare in Baghdad as some Sunni Arab families forced from Neighborhoods
By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Several Sunni Muslim families were forced out of their mainly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in Baghdad recently. Locals fear the creeping return of…
Sell that Oil Stock! Electric Cars are Here
The Tree | - - As fossil fuels fight loud and clumsy battles for continued dominance in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia, a renewable revolution as quiet as the…