2018

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 […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian Schools & Clinics at Risk if Trump Cuts not Made Up: UNRWA

Middle East Monitor

$185 million needed through end of year

Featured

Top 4 Pieces of Sexual Harassment that Brought us to the Kavanaugh Debacle

Juan Cole

Les Moonves didn’t know if it was good for the country, but Trump was definitely good for CBS Bottom Line

Israel/ Palestine

“No one will leave:” Palestinian Bedouin reject Israeli Ultimatum to Abandon their Town in Palestine

Maan News Agency

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Civil Administration ordered on Sunday the Bedouin residents of Khan al-Ahmar village, east of Jerusalem, to demolish their homes and to evacuate the area before the start of October. According to local sources, staff members of the Israeli Civil Administration under the protection of Israeli forces stormed Khan al-Ahmar and […]

Donald Trump

Complicit, Sidelined, Compromised: The American Elite is not Going to Save You From Trump

John Feffer

(Tomdispatch.com) – During a lifetime of make-believe, Donald Trump has never pretended to be a conventional politician. When he finally decided to make a serious bid for office, he built his presidential aspirations on the flimsiest of foundations: a wild conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birthplace. His leadership bona fides were equally laughable, having presided […]

Feminism

Keeping Nasty Women out of Textbooks

Gail Ukockis

a Texas education committee had voted to keep Nasty Women such as Hillary Clinton out of the mandatory social studies curriculum

Green Transportation

BMW, Porsche & other German Car-makers want to sell a million Electric SUVs, Coupes

AFP

By Yann SCHREIBER Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – After years watching Tesla’s electric cars speed ahead while they have been on the defensive over an industry-wide diesel emissions scandal, German high-end manufacturers have finally unveiled their first challengers to the Californian upstart. Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen’s Audi and Porsche subsidiaries between them control […]

Russia

Russia Slams Israeli ‘Adventurism’ for downing of its Military Plane over Syria

AFP

Moscow (AFP) – Russia’s military Sunday blamed “misleading” information from the Israeli airforce for the downing of one of its planes in Syria last week, and denounced the “adventurism” of Israeli pilots. Israel strongly disputed the assertion and vowed it will continue to act against Iranian targets in neighbouring Syria. A Syrian air defence missile […]