Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s rant against Iran on Sunday accused the leadership of that country of hoarding the country’s wealth, behaving like a mafia, and being hypocritical clergymen. While these allegations are not without basis in fact, Pompeo’s own record undermines the critique. The Trump administration is itself a government of billionaires, by billionaires […]
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“UNIMPRESSED”: Iran Throws Shade on Trump’s All-Caps Twitter Threat
Washington (AFP) – Tensions are mounting between Donald Trump and Iran — the US president’s raw tweet threatening Tehran was met Monday with a similarly bilious reply, upping the ante in the high-stakes game of diplomatic chicken. Trump’s tweeted warning late Sunday to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — all in capital letters, the digital equivalent […]
The Other Caged Kids: UN Rights Chief Calls out Israel on Palestinians
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations rights chief on Monday demanded that Israel either give more than 400 detained Palestinian children their day in court or release them, decrying “assaults” on Palestinians’ rights. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein criticized the “administrative detention” system under which Israel is […]
Israel Tightens Control of Palestinian E Jerusalem, with Trump’s Blessing
(OpenDemocracy.net) – After Trump’s decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, Israel has gained its ally’s backing to go even further in its control over the Palestinian part of Jerusalem Salem Ahmad/ABACA News Agency/PA images. All rights reserved Roughly around their sixteenth birthday, the youth of Jerusalem are eager to obtain their Israeli Identification […]
As UK hits 50% Renewables some Days, will a Huge new Solar Farm Change Everything?
By Alastair Buckley | – Sheffield (The Conversation) – The largest solar power plant ever proposed in the UK will be reviewed by the secretary of state within the next six months. Cleve Hill solar farm will occupy the north coast of Kent and, if built, provide up to 350MW (megawatts) of generating capacity. The […]
Trump and Iran’s Rouhani Threaten each other with the Mother of all Wars
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In remarks Saturday to the Iranian foreign policy establishment in Tehran, President Hassan Rouhani gave some warnings to Donald Trump. He said, “Mr. Trump, do not play with the lion’s tail. The only result of such a course will be profound regret.” With regard to Washington’s current attempts to sow […]
Israel: Thousands Rally against Discrimination toward Gays
Tel Aviv (AFP) – Israelis demonstrated and held a one-day strike on Sunday to protest a law denying surrogacy to gay couples, with thousands attending a rally in Tel Aviv. Police did not give an estimate of numbers at the city’s central Rabin Square, but Haaretz newspaper put the attendance at 60,000. A police statement […]
Is Trump finishing the Job that Bin Laden Began?
Washington, D.C. (Tomdispatch.com) – As presidencies approach their midpoints, pundits begin the inevitable search for that elusive creature: the doctrine. It’s often a quixotic quest, since presidents rarely boil down their foreign-policy visions — if they even have them — to some pithy essence. Then there’s Donald Trump. Conjuring up the current president’s foreign-policy doctrine […]
Iraq: New anti-Corruption Protests in South raise death Toll to 11
Fresh protests hit southern Iraq Sunday as medical sources put at 11 the number of demonstrators killed in two weeks of unrest
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