By Abdulaziz Kilani | @AZ_Kilani | – Last week, the United Arab Emirates confirmed its troop drawdown from Yemen, which has raised questions about what Abu Dhabi’s next target will be. “Many people asked if this is also linked to the current rise of tensions with Iran,” said a senior UAE official who declined to […]
Archives for July 2019
No, John McCain’s Response to Obama being Called “an Arab” was not Exemplary: Here’s Why
A video of Sen. John McCain from the 2008 presidential campaign wherein he disagrees with a woman at one of his campaign rallies about Obama being “an Arab” has gone viral again. It is being contrasted with Trump’s insouciance as his blackshirts chanted “send her home” concerning Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). People who are holding […]
In Just the Past Year, German CO2 Emissions fell by 33%, as Gas Replaced Coal
The end for German Coal could come Sooner than anyone Expects
The Politics of Fear is intended to make us Dumb and Tribal, if we Let it
By Arash Javanbakht | – People have always used fear for intimidation of the subordinates or enemies, and shepherding the tribe by the leaders. Recently, it appears that Pres. Trump has used fear by suggesting in a tweet that four minority congresswomen go back to the places they came from. There is a longstanding history […]
Can Israel conceal War Crimes by Emptying its Archives?
By Motasem A Dalloul | Twitter: @abujomaaGaza | – In January 2018, +972 Magazine published an article outlining the reasons why Israel’s Chief Archivist Dr Yaakov Lozowick had declared he was going into early retirement. Lozowick was protesting against Israel’s policy of maintaining documents classified. A report by the senior archivist said: “Israel is not […]
Putting the American in Somali-American: Why does Ilhan Omar put a Scare into the US Power Elite?
Reprint edition. By Juan Cole | – Trump has attempted to depict Rep. Ilhan Omar’s reformism as an expression of hatred for the US. It is not. It is a recognition of the dark underbelly of this country’s history, its entanglement in colonialism and slavery and class oppression. She makes this critique from a unique […]
Notorious Moments in Modern History when Dictators Sent their own Citizens “Back”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s crowds have started chanting “Send her back!” referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Somali-American who came as a refugee when a child and was naturalized. The idea that some citizens are less loyal or less patriotic or less deserving of residency than other citizens is not new in […]
Racist Billionaires, Patriotic Socialists, Climate Emergency and the Fate of America
( Tomdispatch.com ) – As I turn 75, there’s no simpler way to put it than this: I’m an old man on a new planet — and, in case it isn’t instantly obvious, that’s not good news on either score. I still have a memory of being a camp counselor in upstate New York more […]
The Squad: Watch Gayle King’s full interview of Reply to Trump by Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib (Video)
Gayle King | CBS Video | – The Squad: Watch Gayle King’s full interview The president’s racist tweets about Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, together known as “the Squad,” stirred an uproar in Washington this week. For their only joint interview following the president’s attacks, the group sat down […]
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