To the corporate media, history goes back only as far as yesterday. Thus the media portray the chaos and violence in Central America as though this is just a case of stuff happens. Or all of a sudden millions decided to come north in search of a better life. And these exculpatory views survived even […]
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Archives for 2019
The Extreme Weather of Climate Emergency will Cost US $1 trillion in Ten Years
By Gary W. Yohe | – June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will prove to be another destructive year thanks to the worsening impact of climate change. But beyond more intense hurricanes and explosive wildfires, the warming climate has been blamed for causing a sharp uptick […]
Hezbollah’s Nasrallah: War on Iran will Endanger US Forces in Region & Kushner Plan for Palestine is “Historic Crime”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah (Hezbollah), the Lebanese Shiite party-militia, gave a speech Friday in which he raked the Trump administration’s Middle East policy over the coals. Nasrallah said that the US kept accusing Hizbullah of having factories in Lebanon for the construction of precision rockets. He said his […]
Assange Indictment Marks Alarming New Stage in US Gov’t’s War on Leaks
Mexico City ( Committee to Protect Journalists) – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment last week of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The administration of President Donald Trump disclosed 17 charges against Assange under the Espionage Act, relating to his receipt and publication of classified military documents and diplomatic […]
Youth Don’t want to be Scared by Climate Crisis: They Want Practical Solutions
By Dimitrinka Atanasova and Kjersti Fløttum | – Days after the British parliament declared a “climate emergency”, The Guardian announced that it would start using “stronger” language to discuss the environment. Its updated style guide states that “climate change” no longer accurately reflects the seriousness of the situation and journalists are advised to use “climate […]
Arab League, GCC Summits Rattled Sabers at Iran but ignored Arab world’s Humanitarian Crises
By Thembisa Fakude | @fakudet | – Saudi Arabia hosted three summits side-by-side this week. Saudi King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud hosted the 14th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday. Saudi Arabia exploited the date and place of the OIC meeting to further its agenda, by calling for emergency meetings […]
Firearms are used to Murder 11,000 /yr in US; N. Zealand Banned Semi-Automatic Guns after 50 Killed
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Virginia Beach shooter killed 12 and put at least 4 others in hospital being operated on for their injuries. He shot up the municipal offices where he had been a utilities engineer until being fired recently. He had a long gun but appears to have done most of his […]
Why Brown Terrorists are ‘Terrorists’ and White Terrorists are just ‘Mentally Ill’
By Maha Hilal | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Whether authorities classify an act as “terrorist” depends almost entirely on who carries it out, not what they did. Terrorist attacks by white supremacists have been on the rise. But federal law enforcement agencies aren’t simply failing to respond. In many cases, they’re failing […]
With Trump Doubling down on Yemen War, Will Congress End Imperial Presidency?
R. Joseph Parrott | – The Trump administration on May 24 announced an emergency declaration to sell billions of dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia without congressional approval. This comes just a month after Congress passed legislation demanding the halt of U.S. aid for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen against Houthi rebels loosely aligned […]
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