John Oliver | HBO This Week Tonight | (Video Clip) | – – “Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat. John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting www.gofccyourself.com and clicking “express” to file your comment.” Last Week Tonight (John Oliver): “Net Neutrality II: Last […]
Who are the Children suing Trump over Climate Future?
By John Light | ( BillMoyers.com) | – – Congress and the White House aren’t going to address the climate crisis anytime soon. Will judges? “We are not going to wait until someone in office is representing our voices,” 16-year-old Xiuhtzcatl Martinez told the assembled crowd of reporters, activists, and four US senators. “We need […]
Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building
Interview by Jayson Casper | (Informed Comment) | – – Dr. Kamal Boraiqa is a lecturer at al-Azhar University and a member of al-Azhar Center for Dialogue, the al-Azhar Observer for Combating Extremism, and the Egyptian Family House. With a PhD from al-Azhar in Islamic Studies, he has served as an imam at the Santa […]
Iran: Will Voters’ Economic Gloom Doom Rouhani’s Reelection Bid?
By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | – – Markets breathed a collective sigh of relief after Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency. But there’s another vote this month that’s just as consequential yet has received far less attention: Iran’s May 19 presidential election. If the incumbent moderate Hassan Rouhani doesn’t win a second term, […]
What will new French President Macron do about Syria & ISIL?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Now that Emmanuel Macron is president of France, it is worthwhile asking what sort of foreign policy he would be likely to pursue. The French presidential system is more centralized than the American. I once did some consulting at the Quai D’Orsay, the French Foreign Ministry, […]
Bernie Sanders Talks Dems, Trump, Palestine, Syria (AJ+)
Dena Takruri | (AJ+) | (Video News report) | – – “Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.” AJ+: “Bernie Sanders Talks Democrats, President Trump, Palestine And Syria”
Fake President
By Neal Gabler | ( Billmoyers.com) | – – Donald Trump is master of perception, altering reality to distract the public from his lack of character. President Donald Trump shows an executive order entitled, “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch” after signing it beside members of his Cabinet in the Oval Office on March […]
Israel to vote on Bill making it a “Jewish State,” demoting Arabic
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli cabinet committee approved a contested bill on Sunday seeking to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish state into the country’s central legislation, sparking concern the heightened discrimination Palestinians would face should it become law. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted unanimously to move the […]
End the Imperial Presidency: Do we Really Want Trump Assassinating and Launching Wars at Will?
By Andrew Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad — from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to […]
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