By Hossam Shaker | (Middle East Monitor) | – – A girl has defied the occupation with unrivalled courage. Over the past years, the media has broadcasted videos of her daringly confronting the heavily armed occupation soldiers, face to face, and demanding that they leave the territories they are forcibly occupying, indifferent to their threats […]
Archives for December 2017
Palestine’s Abbas washes hands of US, as ‘Dishonest Mediator’
TeleSur | – – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the U.S. government “dishonest” and said he will “no longer accept any (peace) plan” from them. One day after the United Nations voted to revoke the U.S. government’s inflammatory decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he no longer views […]
Nations of World at UN Humiliate Trump w/ Massive vote for Palestinians
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arab and Muslim worlds exulted Thursday over their massive victory at the United Nations General Assembly, which passed a resolution condemning the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Despite his crude threats to cut off US aid to countries who bucked […]
Will Americans finally start fighting back against tax cuts for the rich?
Stephanie Leiser | (The Conversation) | – – The 60 percent of Americans who believe that the GOP tax package will mostly help the wealthiest among us are right, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center. But will widespread disapproval translate into political costs or electoral losses for Republicans? Will Americans decide they […]
Trump’s Pentagon Admits to ‘Multiple Ground Missions’ in Yemen
TeleSur | – – The U.S. Defense Department claimed the ISIS presence has doubled in Yemen. For the first time, U.S. Pentagon has admitted to carrying out “multiple ground missions” in Yemen. “U.S. forces have conducted multiple ground operations and more than 120 strikes in 2017,” U.S. Central Command, Centcom, in Tampa, Florida, said in […]
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Let’s start with the universe and work our way in. Who cares? Not them because as far as we know they aren’t there. As far as we know, no one exists in our galaxy or perhaps anywhere else but us (and the other creatures on […]
Top 5 Reasons why Trump’s Threats to UNGA over Jerusalem are Empty
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The thuggish Trump and his gun moll Nikki Haley have threatened member countries of the UN General Assembly with a cut-off of US foreign aid if they vote against the US on Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Trump said, “They take […]
Congressional Efforts to Expand NSA Spying on Americans are still a Danger
By David Ruiz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The debate over how to reauthorize certain NSA surveillance authorities has seen a whirlwind of activity, culminating in the major news that the House Rules Committee postponed a vote today to potentially expand NSA spying powers. As we wrote yesterday: “According to reports published Tuesday […]
GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the middle class
Steven Pressman | (The Conversation) | – – The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique. It is the heart of the American dream. A decent income and home, doing better than one’s parents, and retiring in comfort are all hallmarks of a middle-class lifestyle. Contrary to what some may think, however, the […]
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