(Informed Comment) – The uproar over Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged attack of a 15-year-old has resulted in many irrational reactions, which even included a bizarre conspiracy theory created (and later retracted) by a respected lawyer. When considering the picture of Kavanaugh, I had to wonder if the allegation would have stirred up as many heated denials […]
Archives for September 2018
Trump’s Space Farce
(Tomdispatch.com) – Like many in my generation, undoubtedly including Donald Trump, I went into space early (and I’m not even counting all those hours in my early teens I spent reading Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy or H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds by flashlight under the covers while supposedly asleep). I’m thinking of 1966 and […]
World Bank warns Israeli Blockade has put Gaza’s Economy in ‘Free Fall’
Jerusalem (AFP) – The World Bank warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip’s economy is in “free fall” as cuts to aid and salaries add to an already crippling Israeli blockade on the Hamas-run enclave. The bank’s report will be presented to the international donor group for Palestinians, known as the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, at […]
Bolton Attacked the Int’l Criminal Court for Fear Palestinians will Get Justice
By Philip Leech-Ngo | – U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton is at it again. He recently issued a blistering rebuke of the International Criminal Court (ICC): “We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.” Is this another example of […]
The US Media Should Learn from UN Audience, and Treat Trump as a Pathetic Joke
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US media, as I predicted, has gone a long way toward normalizing Trump. Despite counts of his over 5,000 ridiculous lies that show a vast increase over time, CNN, MSNBC and other news outlets respectfully report on him as though he really were a president who really did have […]
US Isolated: Europe’s Big 3, plus China & Russia Outmaneuver Trump to keep Iran Deal at UN
“determination to protect the freedom of their economic operators to pursue legitimate business with Iran”
A Fourth Woman has contacted Montgomery County with Kavanaugh Rape Allegations
The local newspaper in Montgomery County, Maryland, is reporting that investigators there are aware of a fourth accuser (counting attorney Michael Avenatti’s anonymous one). The Sentinel writes: “Government investigators confirmed Monday they’re aware of a potential second sexual assault complaint in the county against former Georgetown Prep student and Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. While investigators […]
Is the Trump Administration Drugging the 13,000 Detained Immigrant Children?
Pharmaceutical Violence as Chemical Straitjacket
Russia’s Relationship with Israel hits Rock Bottom as it gives Syria S-300 Air Defence System
By Antoinette Chalaby-Moualla | – Paris (AFP) – From a honeymoon in the years after Israel’s founding, to strained ties after the mistaken downing of a Russian plane in Syria, relations between Israel and Russia have gone through several periods of tensions. These have mainly revolved around disagreements on Middle Eastern issues. – One of […]
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