The last 12 months have shown that Trump’s party is bent on inflicting vast cruelty while aiming to crush democracy and the rule of law
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Will New Pakistani Government Ban US Drone Strikes in Light of Court Ruling? (Ross)
It looks as though the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by steel magnate Nawaz Sharif, is going to be the single largest party in Parliament, […]
Republican Scandal-Mongering on Benghazi and the Bush Embassy Attacks (plus Daily Show video)
Jon Stewart of the Daily Show makes fun of the Republican obsession with the Benghazi events of last September and their unsupported allegations of some […]
The Chinese Diplomatic Pivot to the Middle East and Beijing’s Middle East Studies Establishment (Ma)
by HAIYUN MA writes at ISLAMiCommentary : Haiyun Ma This week China’s new president, Xi Jinping, separately hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine […]
Top Ten Republican Myths on Libya
Reprint edn.; since they don’t change their talking points, why should we change our blog entries? 1. Republican senators keep saying that it should have […]
Is the Government reading your Email without a Warrant?
Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) has demanded that the FBI and other Federal agencies obtain a warrant to read private emails. He said that Americans’ “right […]
Minorities and the Arab Revolutions (Cole Video)
Here is an excerpt from my recent talk on minorities and the Arab Revolutions at Portland State: Here is the video
Has the Obama administration Given into Russia on Syria?
The joint communique issued by Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week regarding Syria has in retrospect raised […]
Obama’s War on Whistleblowers who are trying to out Government Waste, Fraud (Van Buren)
Peter van Buren writes at Tomdispatch.com: What do words mean in a post-9/11 world? Apart from the now clichéd Orwellian twists that turn brutal torture […]
Hawking joins Academic Boycott of Israel
Physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott the annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem this year has been confirmed by Cambridge University. The university initially attempted to […]
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