By Jack Rasmus | ( TeleSur ) | – – Poll after public opinion poll in the US today consistently show that US voters overwhelmingly share the opinion that big money billionaires and their corporations were increasingly dominating US elections. As the United States election cycle began to ramp up last summer, for example, the […]
Archives for February 2016
Wikileaks: Netanyahu used Italy to pressure US on Illegal Squatter Settlements in Palestine
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Among the NSA’s targets was UN Secretary General Ban-ki Moon. “If the Secretary General can be targeted without consequence then everyone from world leader to street sweeper is at risk,” says Julian Assange. The NSA spied on EU, UN, Israeli, and Japanese officials, new documents […]
Arbitrary: Egyptian Military Court Sentences 3-Year-Old to Life
Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – A life sentence apparently handed down by mistake to a 3-year-old boy on February 16, 2016, exemplifies the arbitrariness of Egyptian courts that are used to punish political opponents of the government. A Cairo military court presiding over a mass trial of 116 defendants, including Ahmed Mansour […]
Palestinian Children under Israeli Occupation come in 195th in world on access to justice
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The occupied Palestinian territory has been ranked 195th in the world on how effectively children can take legal action to defend their rights, the Child Rights International Network (CRIN) reported Tuesday. In a report titled “Rights, Remedies and Representation,” CRIN placed the occupied Palestinian territory as […]
Does Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo go far enough in restoring Constitution?
TeleSur | – – President Obama is making his case to the nation to finally close the much maligned detention center in his final year in office. President Barack Obama presented a four point plan Tuesday to “close Guantanamo once and for all” the president said. The plan now lies in the control of Congress […]
Trump must honor the Immigrant & Undocumented Veterans of American Foreign Wars
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump, the ultimate chickenhawk, pretends to be a big booster of veterans, but as far as I can tell he’s never done anything in particular for them. Worse, Trump has been deeply offensive toward a significant group of vets– immigrants and the undocumented. In 2009, […]
The Saudi-Russian Oil Price Freeze is about Power, not Money
By Nafis Alam | (The Conversation) | – – Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two most powerful oil producers, have reached a tentative agreement to freeze oil production at its current levels. As the first deal between an OPEC and non-OPEC member in 15 years, it marks a significant declaration of intent. But it […]
Sewage, clean Water provided to Palestinian village by EU after 49 yrs of Israeli Rule
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamallah and European Union representative Ralph Tarraf on Sunday laid the pave-stone of the first wastewater treatment plant in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tubas. An EU statement said the “large-scale project” would serve around 34,000 people living in Tubas […]
Mideast Arms Purchases Continue Despite Falling Oil Prices, Austerity
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2016 (IPS) – The continued decline in oil prices is threatening to have a direct and indirect impact on several fronts, including development aid, migrant workers and remittances, voluntary contributions to UN agencies, humanitarian assistance to refugees and infrastructure-building in the […]
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