By Tim Shorrock | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – Despite the attention being given to America’s roiling wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East, crucial decisions about the global role of U.S. military power may be made in a region where, as yet, there are no hot wars: Asia. Donald Trump will arrive in […]
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Archives for 2016
Sorry, Garrison Keillor: Keith Ellison for President could have beaten Trump, and still Can
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am a fan of Garrison Keillor, of “Prairie Home Companion” fame. I am also a fan of Keith Ellison (D-MN), the prominent liberal representative from Minneapolis and happens to be a Muslim. Unfortunately for me, I have to choose between them because Keillor, deep in depression […]
Climate Scientist Enemies List: Internal Trump Memo Sparks Fears of Witch Hunt
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Trump transition team reportedly asking for names of career employees at Department of Energy who worked on Obama’s climate policies President-elect Donald Trump’s Energy Department transition team has reportedly been asking for the names of civil servants that have worked on environmental policies […]
Trump adviser reiterates pledge to move US embassy to Jerusalem
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Following up on a campaign pledge from US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway reiterated on Monday that the move would be a “very big priority” for the Trump administration. “That is very big priority […]
Why do we fall for fake news?
By S. Shyam Sundar | (The Conversation) | – – In recent weeks, the amount of online fake news that circulated during the final months of the presidential race is coming to light, a disturbing revelation that threatens to undermine the country’s democratic process. We’re already seeing some real-world consequences. After fake news stories implicated […]
Syria’s Aleppo Falling: The Government Russia actually Turned
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By Monday morning Syrian time, the large and important district of Shaikh Saeed in southeastern Aleppo had completely fallen to the Syrian Arab Army and its allies among the Shiite militias of Lebanon and Iraq. (Orange in this map areas regime has taken in past 3 […]
Palestinian East Jerusalem Vanishing: Israeli Strategy Exposed in New Video
By IMEMC | – – A new video released by the Negotiations Affairs Department, titled “East Jerusalem: Israel’s Colonial Project Unraveled,” declares that Israel’s policy in the city, since the 1967 occupation, is three fold: creating a Jewish majority, reducing Palestinian presence and isolating East Jerusalem and dividing it from its West Bank parts. According […]
Jerusalem 1896: Incredible Footage of Jews, Muslims, Christians living under the Ottomans
Nahda Productions | (Historic Video) | – – “Incredible footage of Palestine and Jerusalem from the year 1896. Muslims, Jews and Christians lived next to each other and peacefully under the auspices of the Ottoman (Uthmani) Caliphate/Empire.” Nahda Productions: “Incredible footage from Jerusalem in 1896 | Jews, Muslims, Christians living under the Ottomans”
Life under the Junta: Deadly Explosion at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25
TeleSur | – – The Coptic cathedral explosion has reportedly killed 25 people and injured dozens more. A crowd gathered outside Cairo city’s biggest Coptic Christian cathedral Sunday morning chanting, “Tell the sheikh, tell the priest, Egyptians’ blood is not cheap!” after a deadly bombing killed at least 25 people in the worst attack on […]