TeleSur | – – The U.K.-based group said more than 5,000 people have died since the beginning of the war in March 2015. Yemen is on the brink of total collapse and an “apocalypse,” aid agency Oxfam said in a report Wednesday marking 1,000 days since Saudi Arabia and its regional allies began a military […]
Archives for December 2017
Yes, America, there is a Class War, and you Just Lost It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Republican Party did not just overhaul the tax code and they did not cut “your” taxes. They engineered a coup against the middle and working classes and they threw enormous amounts of public money to private billionaires and multi-millionaires. Americans do not understand this sort […]
Will Palestine Request Full UN Membership in January 2018?
TeleSur | – – Egypt introduced a draft resolution to the Security Council to reject a decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The adviser to Palestinian President for Foreign Affairs, Nabil Shaath, informed on Tuesday that his country will request full UN membership in January 2018. “We will present the request again […]
Saudi strikes have killed 136 civilians in Yemen, as Huthis Rocket Riyadh
Middle East Monitor | – – Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen have killed at least 136 civilians since 6 December, Reuters reported. The UN verified that 87 civilians across the capital Sana’a, Saada and Hudaydah were injured. “We are deeply concerned at the recent surge in civilian casualties in Yemen as a […]
How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I remember the day President Obama let me down. It was December 1, 2009, and as soon as the young president took the podium at West Point and — calm and cool as ever — announced a new troop surge in Afghanistan, I knew. There wasn’t […]
Trump Nat’l Security Speech: Is he the real threat to National Security?
Trump’s National Security Strategy document is about as confused and wrongheaded piece of writing you’d ever want to see. It says, “Jihadist terrorist organizations present the most dangerous terrorist threat to the Nation.” This assertion is not true. The most dangerous threats to the United States are other states, especially the well armed ones. A […]
Yemen: Will Saudis try to Impose Ahmed Ali Saleh, son of Dictator?
Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com) | – – When Yemen held parliamentary elections in 1997 Ahmed Ali Saleh, then aged 24, was a first-time candidate. Though new to politics, he won by a handsome margin – a victory that was no doubt helped by having his father, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and many of the […]
How Big Media Money & Monopolies Affect You: Disney/Murdoch to Net Neutrality
By Des Freedman | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – This week’s events have shown that the new digital media landscape is every bit as monopolistic as the old one. And what’s Murdoch up to now? Image: Rupert Murdoch, who this week sold his entertainment empire – but not his news empire – to Disney Two […]
Fascism’s return and Trump’s war on youth
By Henry Giroux | (The Conversation) | – – Fascism is all too often relegated to the history books. The word conjures up a period in which civilized societies treated democracy with contempt, engaged in acts of systemic violence, practised extermination and elimination, supported an “apocalyptic populism,” suppressed dissent, promoted a hyper-nationalism, displayed contempt for […]
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