By Lisa Fuller | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The most effective way to prevent a nuclear war with North Korea is to reassure them that the U.S. won’t strike first. Former National Security Council Director Peter Feaver recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “even a single nuclear detonation” could […]
Archives for December 2017
Trump Tax Law Screws Workers out of $5 bn, Gives it to Swamp
TeleSur | – – Experts have said that the bill will raise the U.S.’ rising deficit, increased the number of uninsured individuals, and redistribute wealth to the rich while increasing taxes on the poor. The United States Senate passed its version of the Trump tax plan ‘reform’ that has been described by progressives as “socialism […]
Trump ‘Working Visit’ to Britain has to be Cancelled after he outrages all 65 million Britons
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – You can’t take him anywhere. And, he is leaving a trail of US diplomatic catastrophes even with close allies. In the aftermath of massive and almost unanimous British outrage at Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim hate videos (one phony and two irrelevant to Muslims in general) posted […]
Trump ‘To Recognise Jerusalem as Israeli Capital’: Reports
TeleSur | – – White House officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, suggested an announcement would be made early next week. Critics immediately warned such a move could prompt widespread Palestinian protests. U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in an official announcement next week, a move […]
A prison called Gaza: new book offers a startling insight into everyday life in the territory
By James Rodgers | (The Conversation) | – – A place of spacious dimensions, and large population, with fine bazaars. It contains numerous mosques, and there is no wall around it. To the modern reader, this is perhaps one of the more striking descriptions the medieval Moroccan traveller, Ibn Battutah, offered of the places he […]
Trump’s Horror show is to distract us from his $1.5 Trillion Mugging of the People
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Don’t look away. I mean it! Keep on staring just like you’ve been doing, just like we’ve all been doing since he rode down that escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and, while you have your eyes on him, I’ll tell you exactly why […]
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