By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Cable news and social media in the United States don’t go into “OhmyGod there’s only One Story” mode about mass shootings unless they somehow involve Muslims. The downside of this procedure is that Americans think Muslims in the US are way more violent than they actually […]
Archives for September 2016
Saudi women demand full rights, end to guardianship system
By Sarah Aziza | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – In Saudi Arabia, a country many view as synonymous with gender discrimination, women are seeing signs of change. While a few top-down reforms have come in recent years — the right to vote in municipal elections, for example, was introduced by King Abdullah in […]
Would Trump in White House defraud us into Crash worse than 2008?
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis never happened. The markets didn’t tank to reveal the emptiness beneath his schemes. We still don’t know what’s lurking in his tax returns […]
Top Six things *You* can Do to Stop Global Warming – Bill Nye
AJ+ | (Video) “Bill Nye the Science Guy has a few solutions to curbing climate change and putting a stop to global warming.” AJ+: ” Bill Nye’s Climate Call To Action” 1. Increase efficiency 2. Produce electricity renewably (wind and solar) 3. Revolutionize energy infrastructure & distribution 4. Electrify all ground transportation 5. Carbon tax […]
How the JASTA override on Saudi could Bite Americans in the Ass
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, but Congress has for the first time in his presidency over-ridden his veto. This is a disastrous law with potentially ruinous effects on the US economy and US policy. Individual tort suits against other countries had […]
Syro-Russian Hospital Bombings in Aleppo “War Crimes,” worse than Slaughterhouse- Ban Ki-moon
By TeleSur | – – Western media reports that the airstrikes were conducted by Syrian or Russian aircraft as part of an offensive launched by President Bashar al-Assad. At least six people were killed in airstrikes on two hospitals in rebel-controlled [East] Aleppo, Reuters reported Wednesday, and the World Health Organization confirmed that both Syrian […]
Palestinian families forced to raze their homes amid spike in Israeli-enforced demolitions
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian families in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina were forced to demolish their own homes for being built without licenses on Wednesday, in order to avoid the expensive demolition fines imposed by the Jerusalem municipality when its employees carry out the demolition […]
RIP Shimon Peres: Last Great Israeli leader to believe in 2 State solution
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I met an emperor once, but have only met a couple of presidents. Shimon Peres (1923-2016) was one. I met him briefly in the Green Room when doing an interview with Charlie Rose. The Polish-born Peres made his best impression on me with his support for […]
If Spec Ops are the future of the US Military, it isn’t Winning many Wars
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Americans expect to be number one. First Lady Michelle Obama recently called the United States the “greatest country on Earth.” (Take that, world public opinion, and your choice of Germany!) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton went even further, touting America as “the greatest country that has ever been created.” Her rival, Donald […]
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