If passed, the bill would require all foreign military deployments — including troops and advisers — to leave the country within one year
Archives for January 2019
When America loses the Forgotten Afghanistan War, will it Leave the US Broken?
Like the Red Army, the U.S. military will finally leave that country in defeat and will bring that defeat home with them.
Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland’s parliament has voted by 78 votes to 45 to ban the importation into Ireland of goods produced by Israeli squatter firms in the militarily Occupied Palestinian West Bank. According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on occupied territories, the occupying authority is forbidden to settle its own population in […]
Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”
By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the impact of the government shutdown after saying he didn’t understand why some federal workers were turning to food banks. Wilbur Ross shrugged off the impact of the shutdown — now […]
With Trump out, Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan Carve up Syria
Moscow plans to organise a three-way summit with Turkey and Iran early this year
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses
The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.
White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump’s Wall
The wall would be “a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage”
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without a conscience run by people with no scruples or empathy. Trump continues to govern in this psychopathic way. Just as criminal gang bosses and dictators take hostages and threaten or […]
From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can’t Escape Spotlight
New Human Rights Watch Report out Now