Washington Post | (Video Clip) | – – “Jennie Willoughby is one of two ex-wives of White House aide, Rob Porter alleging emotional and physical abuse. Porter the Trump administration’s staff secretary resigned Feb. 7.” Washington Post: “Ex-wife of White House aide Rob Porter alleges emotional and physical abuse”
Archives for February 2018
Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US troops and the Kurdish and Arab fighters among whom they are embedded came under a coordinated attack by pro-Damascus militias on late Wednesday into Thursday morning. The action took place in Deir al-Zor Province, in Syria’s far east. It is possible that the pro-regime militias […]
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right
By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes about the ascent of the far right in the country. Much of the “alt-right” literature in the United States is exactly what you would expect. Images of George Soros using […]
How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise
By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump warned grimly of “rivals like China and Russia that challenge our interests, our economy, and our values.” In response, he demanded that Congress give even more money to “our great military” and fund the growth and modernization […]
Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish cantons in northern Syria staged a demonstration in the city Tuesday evening against the Turkish invasion. Kurds drove from the northeast, from Qamishli and Hasaka, and from Kobane, through Kurdish-held […]
Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment
By Tan Copsey | (ChinaDialogue) | – – President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. But one area where his administration’s radical, deregulatory agenda has been successful is in dismantling environmental protections. The Trump administration has not quite fulfilled a campaign promise to abolish the […]
British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage
By Jonathan Westaway | The Conversation | – – In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitised recently by the society and the British Film Institute. They are now free to […]
UN: 47,000 displaced By Saudi-led war on Yemen since December
Middle East Monitor | – – Up to 47,000 Yemenis have been displaced to Aden as a result of rising military tensions in Taiz and the Red Sea port governorate Hudaydah, the Anadolu Agency reported today. “Escalating conflict in Taiz and Hudaydah since December 2017 has displaced nearly 47,000 people to Aden and other governorates […]
Big Legal Win for Kansas Schoolteacher barred from Boycotting Israel
Media with Conscience News | – – The US state recently passed a law requiring all state contractors to pledge they do not support a boycott of Israel. A US judge has temporarily blocked the implementation of a law that bars anyone from entering into a contract with the state of Kansas without first pledging […]
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