(Tomdispatch.com ) – When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I looked to the heavens: to God and Christianity (as arbitrated by the Catholic Church) and to the soaring warbirds of the U.S. military, which I believed kept us safe. To my mind then, they were classic manifestations of American technological superiority over the […]
Archives for August 2019
Saudi Woman dissident Refuses to Make Video exonerating Saudi State from Torture Charges
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The family of jailed Saudi dissident and women’s rights activist Loujain Hathloul has announced that the Saudi authorities offered to release her if she would record a video statement saying that she had not been tortured while in government custody. Her sisters say that she refused the offer, and they […]
Globally and in El Paso, Far-Right Language is Changing, Provoking More Violence
By Arie Perliger | – The recent shooting attack in which a young white man is accused of killing 22 people in a Walmart in El Paso fits a new trend among perpetrators of far-right violence: They want the world to know why they did it. So they provide a comprehensive ideological manifesto that aims […]
Is Israel trying to Solve its Gaza Problem with Egyptian Territory?
By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – There has been an increase recently in Israeli projects seeking solutions to what it calls the “Gaza problem”. They have been focusing on Egypt’s Sinai, and appear to be foreshadowing a potential population transfer of Palestinians to the Sinai peninsula. Such a move would relieve Israel from […]
Yemen’s Southern Separatists Seeking International Recognition
(Al-Bab.com | – Last Thursday Yemen’s southern separatists sent a letter to the UN Security Council and to the foreign ministers of all EU member states. Written in flawless English, it set out their grievances and demanded “credible southern representation” in political processes aimed at ending the four-year-long war. With hindsight, the letter can be […]
Trump’s Conspiracy Theories Hide the Real Plot, of Corporations against our Health
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump came to power in part because of weird conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, and he is still at it. This pollution of our information system with ridiculous charges against the Clintons, or the Obamas, or any number of other bêtes noires, is a form of misdirection, a technique used […]
Thousands of Years of World’s Heritage Endangered in Syria, Cradle of Civilization
By Lubna Omar | – I used to be a Near Eastern archaeologist working in Syria. Nowadays, I am stuck in academic purgatory, observing from a great distance as the country burns, unable to help protect its history or its present. Syria sits within what’s known as the cradle of civilization. It’s part of the […]
Civilian Casualties Mount in Indiscriminate Fighting in Yemen
Separatist and Government Forces in Aden Showing Scant Concern for Civilians
If the FBI Really Arrested 90 Suspects in Domestic Terror Probe, Why won’t they Share Records of Even One?
By Fritz Zimmermann | ProPublica | – On July 23, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that federal investigations of domestic terrorism had led to some 100 arrests in the last nine months. While the FBI quickly announced that the number was 90, not 100, the basic message appeared unchanged: The FBI […]
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