By Elias Ghazal | (The Conversation) | – – When the prime minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, suddenly resigned from office while visiting Saudi Arabia on November 4, the Lebanese people and their leaders struggled to make sense of it. First they were shocked when they watched Hariri’s deeply unsettling eight-minute resignation video, which was […]
Archives for December 2017
Jared Kushner didn’t report Funding Illegal Israeli Squatter Settlements
TeleSur | – – The news organization, Haaretz, printed a report in 2016 stating Kushner’s parents invested thousand dollars in organizations nestled in the West Bank region. Researchers from American Bridge and Newsweek have revealed Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior advisor failed to mention to the Office of Government Ethics, during his […]
The Art of Keeping Guantanamo Open: The Uncharged, Untried and their Paintings
By Erin L. Thompson | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – We spent the day at a beach in Brooklyn. Skyscrapers floated in the distance and my toddler kept handing me cigarette filters she had dug out of the sand. When we got home, I checked my email. I had been sent a picture of a […]
Split in Rebel Yemeni coalition, as Saleh turns on Houthis, seeks peace with Saudis
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Amid a growing problem of malnutrition and cholera outbreaks caused by the Saudi-led war on Yemen, the two branches of the northern Yemeni government have split and are fighting one another. The country is being plunged into yet more misery, and the Saudis are looking to […]
How GOP Tax Bill’s assault on Universities will Devastate US Economy
By Benjamin J. Cohen | (The Conversation) | – – With the Senate’s passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” President Donald Trump seems close to notching his first legislative victory – a huge tax cut for the 1 percent. All that remains is the need to reconcile the Senate bill with the version […]
Australian billionaire implicates Israel’s Netanyahu in alleged corruption scandal
Middle East Monitor | – – Australian businessman James Packers has confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded gifts for himself and his wife in return for advancing Packer’s business interests, according to the Times of Israel. The billionaire, who runs the Crown gaming empire and reportedly has a close relationship with Netanyahu, voluntarily […]
Hamas Calls for ‘Intifada’ Should US Deem Jerusalem Israel’s Capital
TeleSur | – – The statement has come amid speculation that Trump will announce next week his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas called for a new “intifada” Saturday should U.S. President Donald Trump go ahead with his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “We warn against […]
Top 3 Bad Pieces of News for Trump in Flynn Plea Deal
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump got three pieces of bad news on Friday, along with the one good piece of news that he managed to lower taxes on himself and his billionaire cronies as the expense of health care for working people. The first piece of bad news is that […]
Gold trader implicates Turkish Pres. Erdogan in Iran money laundering
EURACTIV.com with Reuters | – – A Turkish-Iranian gold trader yesterday (30 November) told jurors in a New York federal court that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan authorized a transaction in a scheme to help Iran evade US sanctions. Reza Zarrab is cooperating with US prosecutors in the criminal trial of a Turkish bank executive […]
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