TeleSur | – – Trump has said that Kushner, who is a married to Ivanka Trump and is an Orthodox Jew, would be “very good” as his Middle East envoy. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and confidant of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, is a director and board member at the Kushner Foundation which has given money […]
John Kerry slams Israeli settlement expansion and proposed ‘formalization’ bill
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — United States Secretary of State John Kerry delivered harsh criticism of the Israeli government’s settlement expansion policies at the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. on Sunday, saying “things are moving in the wrong direction” regarding Israeli-Palestinian peace. An annual dialogue between American and Israeli leaders from […]
All the President’s Men: The Warmongering Washington Blob is Back
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Shortly after taking office in 1969, President Richard Nixon devised his “madman theory.” It was the height of the Vietnam War, and Nixon believed that he could end the conflict. It just required a bit of unpredictability. “I want the North Vietnamese to believe […]
Under BDS Pressure, G4S Ends Most Illegal Business with Israel
IMEMC | – – Human rights campaigners to intensify pressure against the company… *G4S announces sale of most of its Israel business, following intense BDS pressure *G4S remains involved in Israeli police training and settlement construction business *BDS human rights campaigners celebrate victory, call for continuing pressure The world’s largest security company, G4S, announced today […]
Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving to blunt the National Security State
By Pratap Chatterjee | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In less than seven weeks, President Barack Obama will hand over the government to Donald Trump, including access to the White House, Air Force One, and Camp David. Trump will also, of course, inherit the infamous nuclear codes, as well as the latest in warfare […]
IfNotNow’s ‘Jewish Day of Resistance’ against Trump and appointees
By Sarah Aziza | (Waging Nonviolence) | – – Demonstrators gathered in over 30 U.S. cities last Wednesday as part of a “Jewish Day of Resistance” against President-elect Donald Trump and his appointment of Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor. The group responsible for organizing the day’s events is IfNotNow, an organization of […]
Denialist GOP House “Science Committee” Retweets Fake News Breitbart
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Committee’s tweet comes during hottest year on record. Displaying a troubling disregard for science, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on Thursday tweeted a misleading article from right-wing, white nationalist website Breitbart News—one written by a climate denier and debunked by actual […]
Israeli Occupation economically suffocates Palestinian East Jerusalem
By: Al-Shabaka | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – In an unusual move, and after years of neglect, American and European delegations and development agencies have recently been visiting East Jerusalem and showing an increased interest in “doing something” about its deteriorating socioeconomic conditions. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is, after a prolonged silence, working […]
The Election that Changed everything and Could be History’s Deal-Breaker
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – For decades, Washington had a habit of using the Central Intelligence Agency to deep-six governments of the people, by the people, and for the people that weren’t to its taste and replacing them with governments of the [take your choice: military junta, shah, autocrat, dictator] across […]
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