By Dirk Helbing | (Project Syndicate) | – – Economic revolutions often bring profound social change, affecting everything from jobs to family size. With the digital revolution now in full swing, humanity must recommit to building more ethical machines, or face a future in which our technologies undermine basic values like human rights and civil […]
Rights group says Past Year was the worst year in Gaza’s history
Middle East Monitor | – – The Director of Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights said on Sunday that 2017 was the worst year in the history of the Gaza Strip in terms of political, economic, cultural, social and health conditions, Felesteen.ps has reported. Issam Younis told journalists in the besieged territory that the coming days […]
A Prototype Mars Colony in the Middle East: Dubai’s Mushrif Park
Middle East Monitor | – – The United Arab Emirates continues to build the world’s largest space city at a cost of $136 million, Director General of UAE Space Agency, Dr. Mohammed Nasir al-Ahbabi said. Dr. Al- Ahbabi posted on Twitter that the city is a viable prototype that can be replicated on Mars which […]
Australia solved the gun problem. We can too
By Reese Erlich | ( 48Hills.org) | – – A mass shooting created real reform Down Under — and strict gun control has worked. Progressives aren’t supposed to say this. But none of the major gun control proposals now being debated in Washington would actually stop mass shootings. I know that sounds heretical, or even […]
Jared Kushner: “You’re Fired!”
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) Here we are a little more than a year into the Trump presidency and his administration’s body count is already, as The Donald might put it, “unbelievable, perhaps record-setting.” Among the casualties are Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief Gary Cohn; […]
From Dead Spies to Dead Syrian Villagers, Russian Denialism on Chemical Attacks
By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com) | – – Russia’s RT links the Skripal poisoning to British jealousy over hosting of the World Cup There’s something uncannily familiar about Russia’s propaganda antics over the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain. We’ve seen them before in Syria where Russia has steadfastly defended the Assad […]
Under Pompeo, will Trump Foreign Policy be Even Worse?
By Alastair Sloan | (Middle East Monitor) | – – The appointment of Mike Pompeo as the new US Secretary of State by Donald Trump will not signal a change in Washington’s Middle East policy. It doesn’t mean that America will no longer endorse the alliance between the Saudi and Israeli governments. Nor does it, […]
Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica Firm Involved in Trump Campaign
TeleSur | – – The social media company warned it “will take legal action if necessary to hold them responsible and accountable for any unlawful behavior.” Social media giant, Facebook, said it on Friday it was suspending political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for the United States President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, […]
Oh Magog! Apocalyptic Christianity Returns to U.S. Foreign Policy
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Trump is no churchgoer. But for evangelicals, his hard right line on Israel and machinations against Iran make him an instrument of the endtimes. Welcome back, Gog and Magog. I can’t say that I’ve missed you. You might remember the Gog and Magog […]
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