Palestine Burns
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Over 200 Palestinians were injured and at least two killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday. The protests came in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledge to move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv, in a move that upended decades of US policy toward the region.
By moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, as Dr. Ramzy Baroud rightfully says "The Entire US-Middle East Political Framework Just Collapsed"
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Two Palestinians killed, hundreds wounded in clashes following Trump announcement on Jerusalem
by Jordan Shilton
Over 200 Palestinians were injured and at least two killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday. The protests came in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledge to move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv, in a move that upended decades of US policy toward the region.
What Trump Has Done: The Entire US-Middle East Political Framework Just Collapsed
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
Trump has finally decided to shed a mask that every US president has worn for decades. And by doing so, the US will, oddly enough, negate the paradoxical role it carved for itself in the last 50 years – that of “peacemaker”.
What Does “Organic” Mean?
by Steven Gorelick
Organic is at a crossroads. Either we can continue to allow industry interests to bend and dilute the organic rules to their benefit, or organic farmers – working with organic consumers – can step up and take action to ensure organic integrity into the future.
Facing Difficult Contradictions in the Anthropocene Age
by Sally Dugman
I have to get used to the idea that this disparity in perspectives is the “new normal” for me — this state of being torn — as it was, apparently, for the father in “The Road.” Oh, we are so mixed in intentions and resolve as we face our personal demons and conflicts — the ambiguous incongruities that shape us all to become the identities that we hold as representative of our outlooks on life and about ourselves.
US Lackey Australia Attacks Free Speech Of Senator Dastyari, Muslims, Chinese, Journalists & Truth-Tellers
by Dr Gideon Polya
Free speech in Australia has been long severely constrained by draconian libel laws and neoliberal corporate domination of a mendacious Mainstream media. This century Australia has passed draconian laws with custodial punishments of up to life imprisonment for saying things. Now it appears that Australian Intelligence has leaked elements of a private conversation of a Chinese businessman with Iranian-born Senator Sam Dastyari to destroy this star Labor Opposition senator’s political career.
The Fate Of The Pine Gap Pilgrims
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
It barely registered a murmur across the Australian press, though it caused the traditional ripples over the protester fraternity. Christian activists, collectively known as the Pine Gap Pilgrims, had received sentences pursuant to the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952 (Cth), a cold war relic used by the Australian government to conceal the nature of Canberra’s association with the joint US-Australian signals facility.
Capitalism’s Failure Of The Flesh: The Rise Of The Robots
by Phil Rockstroh
We have delivered insult after insult to the soul of the world, and yet it loves us with an abiding and bitter grace. The question remains, do we love it in turn, and deeply enough, to mount a resistance to the present order thus turn the tide against the love-bereft forces responsible for the wholesale destruction of both landscape and soulscape.
The Problem Is NOT Sexual ‘Harassment’
by Eric Zuesse
There is an enormous difference between “harassment” and “exploitation”. However, in America’s pro-power legal system, there isn’t (the legal distinction is almost non-existent), and the U.S. ‘news’media adopt the existing power-serving system unquestioningly, so that in legal terms, they can get away with calling it merely as “harassment.” But they are not supposed to be agencies of the law; they claim instead to be ‘journalists’ (or else they are merely propagandists). And, if they are journalists, then the common-parlance definitions are the ones that should be applied by them.
Is Dissent Necessary?
By Sheikh Attar & Palvi Singh Ghokrokta
As a natural corollary, in our quest for it we must constantly question, challenge, reinvent and rediscover established notions and norms. Like science welcomes rather rewards dissent, our society must also encourage and inculcate a critical outlook. As a parting shot, it would serve us well to take a leaf out of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s book, who said that one needs to be ‘pessimistic by intellect and optimistic by will’.
Can We Solve Corruption?
by Moin Qazi
International Anti-Corruption Day-9 December, 2017
Make Rupee in India: Eco Development Banks Capitalised with Zero Coupon Perpetual Bonds hold the Key
by Anandi Sharan
By building an EcoDevelopment Bank the Government of India can finance agriculture and ecoinfrastructure projects in agriculture, forestry, wetlands and ocean clean up let alone Swatch Bharat for that matter, at no cost.
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