Via Middle East Monitor By Alastair Sloan | (Middle East Monitor) | – – As the church bells rang in the New Year of 2018, Norway announced that it would be cutting arms sales to any country fighting in Yemen. A couple of weeks later, Germany said the same thing. The Netherlands and Sweden have […]
Voters & Congress need to Stop Warmongers like Bolton via War Powers Act
By Sarah van Gelder | (Yes! Magazine) | – – A widespread show of support at the local level could embolden lawmakers toward a no-first-use policy on nuclear weapons. “Yes, John Bolton Really Is That Dangerous” read a headline from the New York Times. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said he “can’t imagine a more reckless, […]
Inside the US war in Yemen
By Reese Erlich | (48Hills.org) | – – The American military and complex Middle East politics create a horrible humanitarian crisis One of the most important US Senate votes in decades took place recently, and few people know it happened. On March 20, Senators voted on whether to stop US support for Saudi Arabia’s vicious […]
A Second Palestine? Neo-Ottoman “Sultan” Erdogan Captures Syria’s Kurdish Enclave of Afrin
By Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey’s capture of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria has added a new dimension to the highly volatile geopolitical environment in the Middle East. Not only is it a major assault on war-ravaged Syria’s territorial integrity and political sovereignty, the event speaks of […]
Egypt’s Electoral Farce: Polls show Al-Sisi lacks legitimacy & gov’t is Unstable
By Pamela Abbott & Andrea Teti | (The Conversation) | – – Egyptians are voting in presidential elections on March 26-28. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who grabbed power in 2013, is set to win another term by a landslide. Yet this is far from a sign of strength: opposition candidates have been silenced, and even pro-government […]
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based Safa News, which had 1.3 mn Followers
this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted
All Donald, All the Time: America’s Ruin as Spectacle
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – A record? Come on! Don’t minimize what’s happening. It’s far too unique, too unprecedented even to be classified as “historic.” Call it mega-historic, if you wish. Never from Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar to Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, from the Sun King Louis the XIV to President […]
Palestine: 17% increase in Israel’s squatter settlements under Trump
Middle East Monitor | – – Construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank surged 17 per cent during the first year of US President Donald trump’s presidency, Israeli monitoring group Peace Now has said. According to data released by the group, Israel began construction of 2,783 settlement homes in 2017, 17 per cent more […]
Yemen: Thousands Protest 3 Years of West-backed Saudi War
TeleSur | – – in Since the military offensive began 10,000 people have been killed, and 53,000 wounded. In Yemen‘s capital Sanaa, tens of thousands took to streets Monday to protest “three years of aggression” by Saudi Arabia and its allies in a war that has been backed by several western governments. This March 26 […]
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