By Phyllis Bennis | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – With all the discussion and debate these days about intersectionality and the need for progressives to link our movements against racism and against war, the name of Muhammad Ali belongs right up in our pantheon with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, Joan […]
Suicide Bombers + Secret Tunnels: ISIL Tactics On Fallujah’s Front lines
Mustafa Habib | | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The battle for Fallujah will be long and hard. The Islamic State has prepared for a siege, is relying on foreign fighters and is spreading lies to persuade locals to fight. NIQASH spoke to those on the front line. In the Nuaimiya area, south of […]
Besieged Syrian Town Gets First Food Aid Since 2012
TeleSur | – – “We call for unconditional, unimpeded and sustained access to all people in need,” said a U.N. spokesperson. An international aid convoy reached Daraya—a Syrian town under siege by government forces—in the middle of the night, delivering food supplies for the first time since 2012, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday. Trucks […]
Israel’s Continuous Implementation of Apartheid Policies in Hebron
IMEMC | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team For more than seven months, Israeli forces have kept a staircase leading to Qurtuba school and the surrounding neighbourhood in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), under closed military zone (CMZ) orders, blocking access for Palestinians only. Despite the lifting of the closed military zone (CMZ) in the Tel Rumeida […]
Nile Valley Water Conflict: Can Egypt live with Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam?
By Dale Whittington | (The Conversation) | – – The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, under construction on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian-Sudanese border, is now approximately 50% complete. Initial filling will start this year and will begin in earnest in 2017. The idea of a dam on the Nile in Ethiopia – […]
The Iraq War isn’t Over; it is waged here, in our Hospitals every Day
By Mark Wilkerson | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Memorial Day is over. You had your barbeque. Now, you can stop thinking about America’s wars and the casualties from them for another year. As for me, I only wish it were so. It’s been Memorial Day for me ever since I first met Tomas […]
How Trump’s Real and Actual Racism has Thrived
By Todd Gitlin | ( BillMoyers.com) | – – Dana Milbank’s June 6 article in The Washington Post was aptly headlined, “Republicans finally discover that Trump is an actual racist.” Not a virtual racist, not a borderline or occasional or slip-of-the-lip racist, but a dyed-in-the-wool, consistent, reliable racist, a white supremacist who stereotypes with abandon […]
Trump ‘a thin-skinned racist bully’: Elizabeth Warren’s Full Evisceration
Sen. Elizabeth Warren | (Video of American Constitution Convention Speech) | – – “Elizabeth Warren Endorses Hillary Clinton – VP Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren Remark at National Constitution Society Conference Dinner – Elizabeth Warren ACS Convention FULL Speech SLAMS “THIN SKINNED RACIST BULLY” Donald Trump.” Full Speech: Elizabeth Warren DESTROYS Donald Trump During ACS […]
UN: Return Saudi-led Coalition to ‘List of Shame’ Secretary-General’s De-Listing Opens Door to Political Manipulation
Human Rights Watch | – – (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general should immediately return the Saudi-led coalition to his “list of shame” for violations against children in Yemen, Human Rights Watch and 19 other organizations said today in a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. On June 6, 2016, the secretary-general announced that he […]