Yara Elmjouie | (AJ+ Video Clip) | – – “Iranian-American AJ+ Producer Yara Elmjouie takes us to meet his parents and reflects on his own experience growing up as a second-generation Iranian-American.” AJ+: “Between Iranian And American” See also Iranian In L.A.: More Than Just A Stereotype [Becoming Iranian-American, Pt. 2] | AJ+ and Why […]
Archives for April 2018
Oceania and Eastasia? New Cold War, this Time against both Russia and China?
( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, […]
Is Saudi Crown Prince’s ‘Recognition’ of Israel anything New or Positive?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Former Israeli prison guard at the notorious Ktzi’ot Prison camp for Palestinians and now editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Cpl. Jeffrey Goldberg, breathlessly reported that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told him that both the Jews and the Palestinians have a right to their own state. […]
Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW)
Officials Green-Light Shooting of Unarmed Demonstrators
Donald Trump and the Art of the Arms Deal (for Everyone)
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It’s one of those stories of the century that somehow never gets treated that way. For an astounding 25 of the past 26 years, the United States has been the leading arms dealer on the planet, at some moments in near monopolistic fashion. Its major […]
Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen
By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally intended to return to power [in Yemen] the transitional regime established after the 2011 popular uprisings, a regime which can roughly be described as intended to shift power from one […]
Spanish Activists to Kick Out Saudi Ship Loading Weapons for Yemen War
TeleSur | – – The Bahri Hofuf ship was already kicked out of Bilbao, but sneaked into Santander. In the first days of March, a Saudi cargo ship docked on the Spanish port of Santander to load weapons with Yemen as its final destination and activists are trying to kick it away. The Saudi Bahri […]
Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Israeli army snipers who were ordered to shoot unarmed Palestinian protesters last Friday at the Gaza border, killing 17 outright and wounding hundreds of others, were acting according to the contemporary script of Middle Eastern dictators. The Israeli army initially admitted in a tweet that […]
How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria
By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]
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