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Archives for April 2019

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In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

Juan Cole

140,000 of the dead are children under 5

Saudi Arabia
Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

ProPublica

By Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden (ProPublica), with Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian/OregonLive This story was co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi […]

Sudan
Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

The Conversation

Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the Sudanese Army’s headquarters in the Ministry of Defence’s complex

Democratic Socialism
The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It

The World’s Happiest People Already have a Green New Deal, and they Love It

George Lakey

All the Nordics have found that their focus on climate coinciding with growth in the common good

Climate Change
Scottish Gov’t Announces ‘Climate Emergency’ in response to Extinction Rebellion Call

Scottish Gov’t Announces ‘Climate Emergency’ in response to Extinction Rebellion Call

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon of the social-democratic Scottish National Party has called a “climate emergency,” doing so in response to a call from “Extinction Rebellion Scotland.” The latter is a youth protest group that has staged walk-outs from high schools and engaged in civil disobedience in numerous cities around […]

Iran
Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new “Axis of Evil,” including Iran, to put US on War Footing

Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new “Axis of Evil,” including Iran, to put US on War Footing

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing short of a new Cold War. If you’re in the market for a troika of tyranny, Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo certainly fit the bill. Or, if you’d […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine, International Law, and a Radically Just Future

Palestine, International Law, and a Radically Just Future

Noura Erekat

We can learn from other cases of law and settler colonialism. These cases exhibit the same type of juridical erasure

Pentagon
Will Technology Make America’s Forever Wars Permanent?

Will Technology Make America’s Forever Wars Permanent?

Tomdispatch

The U.S. and its coalition will continue its airstrikes and coordinated attacks on Syria until the “enduring defeat of ISIS.”

Antisemitism
Hatred of One is Hatred of All: San Diego Synagogue Shooter had Attempted to Burn down Mosque

Hatred of One is Hatred of All: San Diego Synagogue Shooter had Attempted to Burn down Mosque

Juan Cole

Earnest is an object lesson in the intersection of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism

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