By Simon Mabon | (The Conversation) | – – With a simple 67-word letter sent on November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, irrevocably changed the political and geographic landscape of the Middle East. Outlining British support for the establishment of a Jewish state, it set in motion a series of events […]
A Visit to Heaven and Hell: Galeano
By Eduardo Galeano | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – [The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died in 2015. Thanks for its use go to his literary agent, Susan Bergholz, and Nation Books, which is publishing it next week.] [The following passages are excerpted from Hunter […]
Leading Democrats Are Way Behind the Public on Health Care
Single Payer is the only affordable health insurance plan
The Fall of the House of ISIL: Reduced from State to Random Terror
ISIL or ISIS has collapsed as a state and its fighters face looming defeat
CIA Cache: Bin Laden loved watching ‘Resident Evil’
Also: Evidence Iran tried to use terrorist mastermind of al-Qaeda
Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bethlehem city on Wednesday following a march commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 document which supported establishing a Jewish state on what would become British Mandate Palestine, and paved the what for the to […]
How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?
By Rachel Caufield | (The Conversation) | – – Five months into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of cooperation between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, Americans are seeing the first legal maneuvers in the case. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates surrendered to U.S. District […]
Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?
Anti-BDS Legislation backed by Israel Lobbies threatens Americans’ Freedom of Speech
Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship
By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” he made the case that, under his administration, Washington […]