By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “‘Exxon Knew’ just joined the category of truly serious scandals,” said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben “Just as New York’s Teddy Roosevelt took on the Standard Oil Trust a century ago, New York’s attorney general has shown great courage in holding to account arguably the richest […]
Archives for November 2015
Bush Sr. Blames Neocons for Ruining W.’s Presidency: Is he Warning Jeb?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In interviews given for a new biography, George H. W. Bush, 91 lets loose against Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, whom he clearly blames for many of the failures of the presidency his son, George W. Bush. But if you attend carefully to what he said, […]
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the wider fallout from the Iraq invasion
By David Morrison | (OpenDemocracy) | – – Tony Blair was warned by his intelligence chiefs that invading Iraq would increase the terror threat facing Britain. If MPs had known this, would they have voted for war? Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller was the director general of MI5, the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, from October 2002 until […]
America’s Never-Ending Wars: #1
By Ann Jones | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Ten months ago, on December 28, 2014, a ceremony in Kabul officially marked the conclusion of America’s very long war in Afghanistan. President Obama called that day “a milestone for our country.” After more than 13 years, he said, “our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and […]
Bernie Sanders wants Ban new Drilling Offshore, on Fed. Land
John Iadarola | (The Young Turks) | – – “Bernie Sanders is taking a strong stand against climate change. He proposed an aggressive plan to curb the United States consumption of fossil fuels. John Iadarola, host of Think Tank, delivers his Final Judgment on the Keep It In The Ground Act.” The Young Turks: “Bernie […]
Will Turkey’s winning Justice & Development Party seek Imperial Presidency?
By ERDAĞ GÖKNAR | (ISLAMiCommentary) | – – Erdağ Göknar The Nov. 1 parliamentary elections in Turkey resulted in an outcome that few commentators or polls had predicted: Another outright parliamentary majority for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling AK Party (AKP). In the almost five months since the AKP lost its parliamentary majority on June […]
Has Slain Israeli Peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin been denied his Legacy?
By Brent E Sasley | (The Conversation) | – – On November 4 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, was murdered by Yigal Amir, an extremist religious Jew opposed to his peace deals with the Palestinians. The Oslo process, which culminated with the awkward handshake between Rabin and Yasser Arafat on the White […]
Palestinians in own city of Hebron live in Fear of Israel Squatters, Soldiers
By: Charlie Hoyle | Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s response to an upsurge in violence since the beginning of October has seen unprecedented closures of Hebron’s Old City, with residents living in a constant state of fear amid killings by the Israeli army and attacks from Jewish settlers. Hebron, the […]
In Rare Victory, Syrian Army breaks ISIL siege of West Aleppo
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The extensive Russian bombing campaign in support of the Syrian Arab Army of the Bashar al-Assad regime has yielded fewer victories than Moscow had hoped, and some of them have been reversed by al-Qaeda, ISIL or other fighters. But on Wednesday it was reported that the […]
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