2018

Istanbul (48hills.org) – In 2013, an Iranian national living in Texas was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, D.C. The State Department alleged that Iran’s Al Quds force masterminded the terrorist plot. Although the bombing never took place and Iran denied any connection with the conspiracy, […]

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Top Five Ways Trump Enabled MBS Murder of Journalist Khashoggi

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump said Friday that he finds “credible” the bald-faced and ridiculous lies the Saudi government came up with to explain the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He thereby signaled his intention of sweeping the affair under the table for the sake of Saudi arms sales. His position is no […]

Voter suppression

GOP Candidate Kemp Purges 107,000 Voters from Georgia Rolls on Eve of Midterms

TeleSur

(TeleSur) – Georgia’s voting laws have come under scrutiny in the hotly contested race for governor. Georgia officials have expunged 107,000 people from voter registration rolls, an APM Report investigation finds. The state’s electoral board has purged an estimated 107,000 voters from the system, largely for not voting. Georgia’s “use it or lose it” law […]

Israel/ Palestine

In BDS win, Israeli High Court allows US Student to Study in Israel despite “Boycott Activity”

Maan News Agency

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that American student, Lara al-Qassem, will be allowed to remain and study in Israel, overturning a lower court decision that initially backed the decision to ban her from entry. Twenty-two-year-old American student, Lara al-Qassem, who has a Palestinian grandfather, was granted an A/2 Student Visa for her […]

Israel/ Palestine

Amnesty Int’l Alarmed Israel going from Sniping unarmed Protesters to ‘Zero Tolerance’

Maan News Agency

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Amnesty International (AI) said, on Friday, fears of escalating bloodshed are rising ahead of planned protests in the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday, after Israeli authorities announced a “zero tolerance” policy towards demonstrations along the Israeli-Gaza border fence. After an overnight five-hour meeting, the Israeli Security Cabinet instructed the Israeli army “to […]

Saudi Arabia

Khashoggi: From Saudi Royal Insider to Open Critic to Gruesome Victim

AFP

Dubai (AFP) – A complex man of contradictions, journalist Jamal Khashoggi went from being a Saudi royal family insider to an outspoken critic of the ultra-conservative kingdom’s government, and was ultimately killed inside its consulate in Istanbul. In his final column for The Washington Post, Khashoggi perhaps presciently pleaded for greater freedom of expression in […]

Supreme Court

The Kavanaugh Hearings Just Won’t Leave Me Alone

Belle Chesler

( Tomdispatch.com) – It’s been three weeks since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony before the nation and I’m still struggling to move on. As talk turns toward the impending midterms, I find myself mentally pushing back against the relentlessness of the news cycle as it plows on, casting a spell of cultural amnesia […]

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