Europe

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Spain has become the latest country to voice its readiness to recognize the State of Palestine and that it will promote a European Union (EU) move to recognize Palestine as an independent state. Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, spoke at a conference of EU leaders in Austria, saying that the […]

Algeria

French President Admits Colonial System in Algeria Deployed Torture

AFP

Paris (AFP) – France admitted Thursday that it instigated a “system” that led to torture during Algeria’s independence war, a conflict that remains hugely sensitive six decades on. President Emmanuel Macron is set to acknowledge that mathematician Maurice Audin, a Communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the system instigated […]

Featured

Did Trump almost start WW III with Russia with Proposed Massive Bombing of Syrian AF?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to Bob Woodward’s just-released book, “Fear,” Donald Trump had been pressed to use 200 cruise missiles to destroy the Syrian Air Force in 2017. Knowing that the Russian Aerospace Forces personnel were all over Syrian air bases, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis became alarmed, and shaped a limited response […]

Donald Trump

Trump Gingerly, Politely begs Russia not to Do Syria Idlib Campaign, Pretty Please

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP reports that President Trump is cautioning the Syrian regime against launching an all-out assault on the last remaining rebel stronghold of Idlib Province. He also said that Russia and Iran would be making “a grave humanitarian mistake” to take part. It is hard to take the humanitarian part too […]

Russia

Russian Trolls Tried to Kill Us: Hackers Stirred up anti-Vaxxers to Roil US

AFP

Washington (AFP) – Russian trolls and bots on Twitter attempted to influence the debate over vaccine safety with the aim of sowing discord among the US public on hot-button issues in the run-up to the 2016 election, US researchers reported this week. “Did you know there was a secret government database of #vaccine-damaged children? #VaccinateUS,” […]

Corruption

Guilty: Trump Campaign Head Manafort Hid Russian Millions in Foreign Bank Accounts

AFP

by W.G. Dunlop | – Alexandria (United States) (AFP) – Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort was found guilty of tax and bank fraud Tuesday, in the first trial resulting from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The guilty verdicts on eight counts are a victory for special counsel Robert […]

Denmark

Danish Politician Pwns terminally Ignorant Trish Regan of Fox on “Socialism” (Video)

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Now This News (Video Clip) Fox News tried coming after Denmark’s social safety net. This Danish politician’s clap back was legendary. Now This: ” Fox News Tried Going After Denmark. Big Mistake. | NowThis

United Kingdom

UK Labour’s Corbyn Refutes Netanyahu’s Smears, Calls out Policy of Shooting Gaza Kids

Middle East Monitor

London (Middle East Monitor) – Israel’s nation-state law discriminates against the country’s Palestinian minority, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday, Anadolu reports. Corbyn made the remarks on Twitter in reply to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who joined the criticism against Corbyn over his alleged participation in a wreath-laying ceremony in Tunisia four […]

Russia

Let’s Keep Russia’s Hack in Perspective: It isn’t an Excuse for Nuclear Sabre-Rattling

John Buell

(Informed Comment) – Rhetorical overkill is the order of the day. Russian agents or freelancers were one of many who hacked this and past elections In an election as close as this was, any number of interveners legal or illegal could nave made the difference. Nor have most corporate media asked if Russian hacking is […]