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SHARE        Sunday, December 29, 2019
The Great Turko-Russian World War for the Middle East: From Syria's Idlib to Libya's Tripoli Russia and Turkey have what seems to be an extremely odd and conflicted love-hate relationship. They are in conflict with one another on two hot fronts, in Syria and Libya.

SHARE        Thursday, December 26, 2019
2019: Americans Slept while Street Revolts Reshaped Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Algeria All the air in American politics seems to have been sucked up by Trump and his Power Tweets, so that cable television seemed to have little energy to spare for the big developments in the world that had the potential to affect the United States.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 25, 2019
A Subdued Christmas for Middle Eastern Christians amid New Wave of Popular Protests Middle Eastern Christianity is huge today compared to 140 years ago, even if they are proportionally fewer and even though it is true that there is ongoing substantial out-migration.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 21, 2019
Could the International Criminal Court brand Israel's Netanyahu a War Criminal? A prosecutor on the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has opened an investigation into Israeli and Hamas war crimes, drawing a furious response from caretaker Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 20, 2019
Climate Crisis Rages in Australia, with 14 of 15 hottest Places in World and Sydney Fire-Besieged Climate is measured in long-term changes of patterns, not in specific events. The question is not whether global heating affects these extreme weather events, but the size of the contribution it makes to their intensity and frequency.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Israeli Blockade of Gaza Causing Contaminated Water, 25% of Illnesses and 12% of Infant Deaths Over half of Palestinians in Gaza are unemployed because of Israel's blockade. This blockade is strongly supported by Trump, Pompeo at State, Esper at Defense, and by almost all the 535 people in Congress that is, they support war crimes and polishing off 12% of the Palestinian children in Gaza.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 17, 2019
In Wake of "Afghanistan Papers" Scandal, Trump to Yank Out 4,000 Troops The US appears to have no plans to cut back on its massive aerial bombardment of Taliban-held areas. During the first three quarters of 2019, the US dropped 6,208 bombs and missiles on Afghanistan, up nearly 5 percent over the same period in 2018, which had itself seen the heaviest bombardment of the country since the US invasion in 2001.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 14, 2019
From Tory Landslide to Trump non-Impeachment: Can Filthy Rich Liars sink Democracy in Britain and the U.S.? The degree of inequality both in the US and the UK is now virtually unprecedented, as is media consolidation. That is, fewer and much wealthier people own more and more of the news outlets.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 11, 2019
We didn't Need the Documents: America's Trillion $ Failure in the Afghanistan War has been Obvious All Along Mostly US news organizations slighted Afghanistan as a news story. How many segments on the war does CNN do a year? Eight? How many times has Afghanistan been on the front page of the Post or the Times? Yet we have thousands of troops still there being asked to risk their lives.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 9, 2019
In Wag the Dog Move, Indicted Israeli PM Netanyahu Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank Netanyahu is in a world of trouble. He has been indicted on criminal offenses. The only thing that might keep him out of jail is to stay in office and tinker with the law for his own benefit. But he can't remain prime minister because he lost the last election and hasn't been able to form a government.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 8, 2019
Was Pensacola Shooter part of a terrorist Cell inside Saudi Officer Corps? The incident could further sour relations between Saudi Arabia and the US Congress, which has called for an immediate end of US military support to Saudi's war on Yemen and is talking sanctions for the killing of Khashoggi.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 6, 2019
Trump Fails again to Bring our Troops Home from Mideast: Mulling Escalation of 14,000 v. Iran Trump made a big splash in October by claiming to bring home the 1,000 special operations personnel embedded with the Kurds in northern Syria. In fact, in the end he sent 500 of them to guard the Syrian oil fields in Deir al-Zor and repositioned the rest in Iraq.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 2, 2019
Turning point in Climate Activism? Germans Block Coal Mines with their Bodies More than 1,000 green activists made their way past police lines and blocked trains at three important coal mines in eastern Germany on Saturday. A few clashes took place between police and protesters.

SHARE        Sunday, December 1, 2019
Back to Jim Crow under Trump: "Lynch her" is Republicans' Big Idea to Deal with Rep. Ilhan Omar The Twitter account of Danielle Stella, the Republican challenger to Ilhan Omar has been shut down after she called for her opponent to be lynched.

SHARE        Saturday, November 30, 2019
Iraqi Crowds Erupt in Joyous Celebrations as PM, elected under Bush Constitution, Offers to Resign A new government must meet the demands of the protesters for the sake of Iraq's future and cease shedding the blood of innocents.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 24, 2019
Nunes as Fox Guarding Henhouse: Parnas alleges he was part of Ukraine Scandal Two lawyers for Lev Parnas say that Parnas tells them he arranged meetings for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) in the Ukraine for the purpose of pushing investigations of Hunter Biden and Burisma. They say he has offered to testify to Congress.

SHARE        Saturday, November 23, 2019
What Does Fraud and Bribery Trial of Israeli PM Netanyahu Tell Us About Trump Impeachment? Both Trump and Netanyahu came to power in part through the backing of billionaires and their fake news organs such as Fox Cable News for Trump and Yisrael Ha-Yom for Netanyahu. Both are being investigated for corruption.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Fascists R Us: Trump/ Pompeo's Denial that Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land is Illegal Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the US no longer considers Israeli squatter settlements on Palestinian land to be illegal. The official policy of the United States is now that it is all right to annex neighbors' land and to settle it with your own squatters.

SHARE        Saturday, November 16, 2019
Top 4 Things Rep. Ilhan Omar was Right about, from Stephen Miller Racism to Trump Impeachment Last April 8 Rep. Omar had called Miller a racist, and had received an avalanche of abuse from Republican Party members. Ironically, one charge against her was anti-Semitism because she critiqued a Jewish member of the Trump administration.

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 15, 2019
Iran's Rouhani: Trump too Erratic to Deal with, but is Open about Ambitions to Steal ME Oil Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said this week that the United States used to justify its military presence in Syria on the grounds that it was fighting terrorism. He said that Donald Trump has let the cat out of the bag and admitted that the real reason is to steal Syrian petroleum.

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