Ma’an News Agency | – – “The group has estimated that some 40 percent of Palestinian men will be detained by Israel at some point in their lives.” BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An ultra right-wing Israeli minister verbally harassed Palestinians from Gaza as they traveled on a bus to visit their imprisoned relatives in southern Israel’s […]
2017: How Erdoğan pushed Turkey toward Authoritarianism
By Mustafa Coban | (The Conversation) | – – After winning an April referendum to greatly enhance the powers of his office, Turkey’s president, Recip Tayyip Erdoğan, spent 2017 pursuing his ultimate priority: to formally cement and extend his one-man rule, which he can next do at the 2019 elections. This he has done with […]
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Puerto Ricans aren’t giving up on Christmas
By Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez | (The Conversation) | – – Leer en español. Some say Puerto Rico has the longest Christmas in the world. Though much of Puerto Rico remains devastated by Hurricane Maria, people are preparing to celebrate the holidays. Lorie Shaull/flickr, CC BY-SA For Puerto Ricans, who are 85 percent Catholic, Christmas starts […]
Muslim-Hating Trump Envoy to Netherlands busted over Serial Lies
Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Mark Thompson | (The Young Turks Video) | – – Pete Hoekstra is either a great bad liar or a really great one. Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Mark Thompson, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. “The US ambassador to the Netherlands faced an excruciating moment on […]
To stop Global Heating, we need Green Electricity, but also Electric Trucks & Ships
By Adair Turner | (Euractiv.com) | – – With renewable electricity costs going through the floor, the EU should increase its 2030 targets and aim for close to zero carbon electricity by 2040. But while power decarbonisation is crucially important, it will not be sufficient to deliver a truly zero carbon economy, writes Adair Turner. […]
Ahed Tamimi: Girl who symbolizes new defiant Palestinian generation
By Hossam Shaker | (Middle East Monitor) | – – A girl has defied the occupation with unrivalled courage. Over the past years, the media has broadcasted videos of her daringly confronting the heavily armed occupation soldiers, face to face, and demanding that they leave the territories they are forcibly occupying, indifferent to their threats […]
Palestine’s Abbas washes hands of US, as ‘Dishonest Mediator’
TeleSur | – – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the U.S. government “dishonest” and said he will “no longer accept any (peace) plan” from them. One day after the United Nations voted to revoke the U.S. government’s inflammatory decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he no longer views […]
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