Middle East Monitor | – – Australian businessman James Packers has confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded gifts for himself and his wife in return for advancing Packer’s business interests, according to the Times of Israel. The billionaire, who runs the Crown gaming empire and reportedly has a close relationship with Netanyahu, voluntarily […]
Hamas Calls for ‘Intifada’ Should US Deem Jerusalem Israel’s Capital
TeleSur | – – The statement has come amid speculation that Trump will announce next week his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas called for a new “intifada” Saturday should U.S. President Donald Trump go ahead with his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “We warn against […]
Gold trader implicates Turkish Pres. Erdogan in Iran money laundering
EURACTIV.com with Reuters | – – A Turkish-Iranian gold trader yesterday (30 November) told jurors in a New York federal court that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan authorized a transaction in a scheme to help Iran evade US sanctions. Reza Zarrab is cooperating with US prosecutors in the criminal trial of a Turkish bank executive […]
Lawmakers Scramble to Prevent Trump from Launching a Nuclear War
By Lisa Fuller | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The most effective way to prevent a nuclear war with North Korea is to reassure them that the U.S. won’t strike first. Former National Security Council Director Peter Feaver recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “even a single nuclear detonation” could […]
Trump Tax Law Screws Workers out of $5 bn, Gives it to Swamp
TeleSur | – – Experts have said that the bill will raise the U.S.’ rising deficit, increased the number of uninsured individuals, and redistribute wealth to the rich while increasing taxes on the poor. The United States Senate passed its version of the Trump tax plan ‘reform’ that has been described by progressives as “socialism […]
A prison called Gaza: new book offers a startling insight into everyday life in the territory
By James Rodgers | (The Conversation) | – – A place of spacious dimensions, and large population, with fine bazaars. It contains numerous mosques, and there is no wall around it. To the modern reader, this is perhaps one of the more striking descriptions the medieval Moroccan traveller, Ibn Battutah, offered of the places he […]
Trump’s Horror show is to distract us from his $1.5 Trillion Mugging of the People
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Don’t look away. I mean it! Keep on staring just like you’ve been doing, just like we’ve all been doing since he rode down that escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and, while you have your eyes on him, I’ll tell you exactly why […]
Why Redneck Revolt Says Deal With Racism First, Then Economics
By Zenobia Jeffries | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Addressing our systems of White supremacy cannot be dismissed as “identity politics.” “Our entire capitalist system is built on a bedrock of White supremacy.” Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating […]
Will Trump/Flynn plot to Nuclearize Saudi Arabia spur Mideast Arms Race?
By Isaac Arnsdorf | (ProPublica) | – – The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East. The Saudi government wants nuclear power to free up more oil for […]