2019

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that Trump gave an impromptu news conference on Thursday in which he urged Iran to call him, as though he was being held hostage by John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and was signalling that Iran should rescue him. I happened to see the bizarre […]

Israel/ Palestine

What I saw in Gaza Changed me Forever

contributors

By Ned Rosch | – My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people. | – (Yes! Magazine) – Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism is a powerful collection of 40 essays by Jews from diverse backgrounds. Each describes a personal journey from a Zionist worldview to activism in solidarity […]

Health Care

America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

Tomdispatch

By Beverly Gologorsky | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – On this extremely hot summer day, the ear-splitting siren screaming through New York’s streets is coming from the ambulance I’m in — on a gurney on my way to the ER. That only makes the siren, loud as it is, all the more alarming. I fell. The […]

Petroleum

The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!

contributors

By John Foster | – (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Monitor) – When we talk about today’s geopolitical hotspots, we need to talk about petroleum AT THE UN General Assembly in 2018, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl broke an unwrit-ten taboo by talking about oil and war. “The recent wars imposed on the Middle East […]

Featured

Thousands of Innocent Palestinians in Gaza at Risk of amputation from Israeli Sniping

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Thousands of innocent Gaza Palestinian protesters wounded by live fire by Israeli snipers are in danger of losing limbs if the decrepit Gaza hospital system does not receive $20 million, according to Jamie McGoldrick, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory. Since the Great March of Return protests […]

Iran

“Ghost Tankers:” Can Iran Evade Trump’s Severe Sanctions on its Oil Sales?

Frud Bezhan

(RFE/RL) – The United States has pledged to cut Iran’s oil exports to “zero,” denying Tehran a key source of revenue through tough sanctions and the threat of stiff penalties to potential buyers. But economists say that while the U.S. measures will hit Iranian oil sales, which account for 70 percent of the country’s revenues, […]

Constitution

Before Trump invoked Executive Privilege he Should have Remembered Nixon

The Conversation

By Ken Hughes | – Like Donald Trump, Richard Nixon tried to stonewall congressional investigations into crimes allegedly committed in the White House. “Why, we’ll just let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell,” Nixon said. But the stone wall crumbled under pressure from the public, Congress and the courts, and its […]

Israel/ Palestine

Kushner is Making the Palestinians an Offer they Can’t Refuse

Middle East Monitor

By Bill Law | – On 2 May Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was playing his cards very close to the chest at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a pro-Israeli think tank. Kushner is the man charged with delivering the “deal of the century” that will supposedly secure peace between […]