TeleSur | – – According to reports by NBC News and Wall Street Journal, special prosecutor Robert Mueller is reviewing a meeting between Michael Flynn and Turkish officials. Reports have surfaced that Washington is investigating whether former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn had agreed to deport Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, from the United […]
Despite Trump, Americans are taking Vigorous Climate Action
By Kristin Igusky and Kevin Kennedy, World Resources Institute | (Inter Press Service) | – – WASHINGTON DC, Nov 13 2017 (IPS) – Even after President Trump announced his intention to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, much of the country is moving forward with climate action anyway. According to new analysis, […]
Trump’s Bluster meets the Afghanistan Reality amid Troop Escalation
By Alfred W. McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and — so they insist — win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, […]
Prince Charles baffled no US President will take on Israel Lobbies
Middle East Monitor | – – Prince Charles has come under fire after it came to light that he blamed the “influx of foreign Jews” for causing unrest in the Middle East and called on the US to “take on the Jewish lobby” in a letter penned in 1986. Writing to his friend Laurens van […]
GOP Tax Breaks for Billionaires would Help Trump Appointees Most of All
by Allan Sloan. | ( ProPublica) | – – The Republican proposal will not only allow them to pass millions (or billions) to their heirs without inheritance taxes, it will also add another benefit on top of that. This column was co-published with The Washington Post. There are times that you run across something that’s […]
Saudi failures, from Qatar to Yemen, bode ill for its Success in Lebanon
By Beverly Milton-Edwards | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Domestic politics in the Middle East especially in a country like Saudi Arabia never stays that way for long. Recent events in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, demonstrate the contagion effect not only on the politics in the Middle East but internationally too. On November 3, […]
Unlike Houston, only 43% of Puerto Rico has Power 7 weeks on
MSNBC | (Video News Report) | – – “Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September. It’s November and power went out again. Velshi and Ruhle speak to San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz about the islands rocky road to recovery.” San Juan Mayor Says Puerto Rico Chances Of Recovery Is ‘Diminishing’ | MSNBC
Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam
By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]
Breitbart Goes to Bat for Roy Moore Amid Sex Scandal w/ Teenage Girl
Far Right cares more about power than morality
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