BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian officials of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) responded, on Saturday, to the United States Trump administration cutting more than $200 million of financial aid to the Palestinian people. PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi strongly criticized the US decision, stressing that “the US administration is demonstrating the use of cheap blackmail […]
Archives for August 2018
Trump’s Foreign Policy Hand Crippled by Legal Woes
Trump’s domestic woes as an unindicted co-conspirator inevitably make him weak on the world stage. Foreign adversaries don’t take seriously a president who looks as though he might be impeached. And they know that presidents under siege in the capital do not have the leisure to attend to foreign affairs with any concentration. Even friends […]
The Israeli Connection to Trump’s Russia Connection
London (Al-Bab.com) – George Papadopoulos, the first person to plead guilty in the Trump-Russia affair, is due to be sentenced soon for giving false information to the FBI but, since he later agreed to cooperate with the investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller has recommended a light or non-existent jail term ranging between zero and six […]
Making America Hated Again: Trump’s Mideast Policy of Strongmen and War
By David Mednicoff | – Donald Trump has shown little interest in encouraging democratic politics and human rights in other countries. This departure from decades of American foreign policy rhetoric has received comparatively little attention. However, in the Middle East, my area of expertise, I believe this Trump policy shift helps make countries less open […]
Yemen: Outcry over Saudi Airstrikes on Children Marks 3 Years of War
Sanaa (AFP) – A Saudi-led coalition launched military operations in Yemen in 2015, helping the government to push back against rebels who had taken control of the capital and seized several provinces. The conflict has killed nearly 10,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians, and injured more than 55,000, according to the World Health […]
Trump Slashes more than $200 mn in Aid to Palestinians
Washington (AFP) – The United States said Friday that it had canceled more than $200 million in aid for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, leading their ambassador to accuse President Donald Trump’s administration of being “anti-peace.” A senior State Department official said the decision, made “at the direction of the president,” […]
With South Africa Conspiracy Theory, Trump is becoming Dylann Roof
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White nationalist terrorist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine African-Americans in a church, including a sitting state senator, confessed himself deeply disturbed by various white grievances. Before murdering his hosts, he accused them of “taking over our country” and “raping our women.” He wrote in his manifesto, “From this point I […]
Anti-Trumpism as a Global–and Domestic–Movement
( Tomdispatch.com ) – One thing already seems clear in the Trump era: the world will not turn out to be the American president’s playground. His ultra-unilateralist, rejectionist policies on trade, the Iran denuclearization agreement, the costs of defense, and climate change are already creating an incipient anti-Trump movement globally (and in the United States […]
Gaza is Running out of Fuel, Medicine: UN
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other critical facilities in the Gaza Strip, the UN political chief said Wednesday. Rosemary Di Carlo also told the Security Council that recent violent escalations between Israel and Palestinian militants “threatened […]
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