By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – He left Air Force Two behind and, unannounced, “shrouded in secrecy,” flew on an unmarked C-17 transport plane into Bagram Air Base, the largest American garrison in Afghanistan. All news of his visit was embargoed until an hour before he was to depart the country. More than […]
Boston breaks the highest ever recorded tide, followed by frozen floods
The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – Boston, Massachusetts has officially broken the highest ever recorded tide since 1921 as a major winter storm swept over the region on January 4, 2018. As the storm passed by, the winds shifted and brought viciously-cold winds from the northwest, turning flood water into ice […]
Is US National Security Strategy too Important to Leave to the Generals?
By Ingo Trauschweizer | (The Conversation) | – – President Donald Trump greeted the new year with an angry tweet about U.S. ally Pakistan. Among other things, the tweet accuses Pakistan of giving “safe haven to terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan.” The Pakistani prime minister responded that the tweet was “completely incomprehensible.” While the subjects […]
Iran’s Revolt of Rising Expectations
By Pedram Maghsoud-Nia | (Informed Comment) | – – During the past week, dozens of Iran’s cities were the scene of political uprisings. The chain of protest started in the city of Mashhad and rapidly spread across the country. By the end ofthe fifth day the death toll caused by the surging violence rose to […]
Bannon Reveals White House Riddled With Conflict, Confusion
TeleSur | – – Bannon has spilled out shocking details on the Trump White House and campaign, which he describes as riddled with conflicting interests. President Donald Trump Wednesday blasted former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as having “lost his mind” in the fallout over damaging comments Bannon made about Trump’s son Donald Trump […]
Can Turkish-Israeli Relations survive Trump’s Jerusalem Decision?
By Korshaid Dali | (Middle East Monitor) | – – People stage a protest against US President Donald Trump’s announcement to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, on December 8, 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey The media and political clash between Turkey and […]
Iranian Regime Must investigate killings of Protesters
Human Rights Watch | – – Halt Use of Excessive Force Against Demonstrators (Beirut) – Iranian authorities should refrain from using excessive force, investigate the deaths during the current protests across the country, and remove arbitrary restrictions on internet access, Human Rights Watch said today. So far, the official news channels of the Islamic Republic […]
How Iran’s Protests could hit the Wider Middle East
By Josepha Ivanka Wessels | (The Conversation) | – – Roiling more than a dozen major cities, young Iranians are protesting against the country’s government. They appear to be particularly angered by the country’s funding of wars in Arab countries, such as Yemen and Syria, as Iranian citizens slide towards poverty. In the city of […]
You may not have liked the past Year but the Arms Industry Loved It
By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Half of Pentagon spending goes to contractors, the military budget is set to skyrocket, and the Trump administration is peddling arms all over the world. Chris Devers / Flickr Arms companies have had a good year. The top 100 learned in July that their […]
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