North Korea Pushes US to Negotiating Table? By Finian Cunningham
	North Korea ready to negotiate if US recognises it as nuclear power. Continue

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Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter & Global Starvation By Daniel Ellsberg
	The plan called, for hitting every city—actually, every town over 25,000—in the USSR and every city in China.

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What Kind of Nuclear Attack Would be Legal? By John Laforge
	"They are not weapons but only wanton machines of symmetric destruction.” Continue

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‘Say the Word’: What the Rohingya Struggle is Really About By Ramzy Baroud
	It was a major disappointment that the Pope abstained from mentioning the Rohingya by name while in Burma. Continue

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Nasrallah Urges Severing of Arab Ties with Israel, Calls for Mass Rally in Dahieh By Naharnet Newsdesk
	“The fate of the Palestinian cause is at stake. What would be left of the cause when you take Jerusalem out of it? Continue

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Trump’s Jerusalem Announcement Means the U.S. Can Kiss Its Remaining Moral Authority Goodbye By Hussein Ibish
	It means the United States has no moral basis to object to dictators seizing land by war. Nice day’s work, Don. Continue

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Trump’s Transition Team Colluded With Israel. Why Isn’t That News? By Mehdi Hasan
	Why aren’t more members of Congress or the media discussing the Trump transition team’s pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue

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Democrats Are Feigning Outrage At Islamophobia They Helped Create By Caitlin Johnstone
	“The fate of the Palestinian cause is at stake. What would be left of the cause when you take Jerusalem out of it? Continue

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How Corporate Power Killed Democracy By Richard Moser
	Corporate power has replaced democracy with oligarchy and justice with a vast militarized penal system.

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The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight By Bill Moyers and Mike Lofgren
	"Forces controlling our Government, no matter the party in power."

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Sen. Al Franken Announces Resignation on Senate Floor Watch
	By pushing Franken to resign, Democrats believed they could regain the moral high ground and go after Moore.

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Iraq: Coalition airstrikes leaves militants killed, north of Baghdad: Military

Gunmen kill five civilians, abduct four others, southwest of Kirkuk

Trump Wants To Deport Iraqi Christians—Even If It's A Death Sentence

Russian Military Wants to Help Trump Destroy ISIS in Iraq

Nearly One In Four Civilians Killed In Syria Is A Child

And we call ourselves civilized: Britons who join Islamic State should be hunted and killed - UK defence minister

Israeli ambassador congratulates Russia on defeating Islamic State in Syria

Pentagon: Four times as many US troops in Syria than previously acknowledged

UN says 230 reportedly killed in Yemen in recent conflict

Exclusive: Saudi-led blockade cuts fuel lifeline to Yemen

Saudi-backed fighters capture coastal area in Yemen from Houthis

Iran evacuates diplomats from Yemen

Iraqi Shiite leader calls on Saudi Arabia to abandon war in Yemen to fight Israel

Haaretz: 20 Gaza patients died waiting for Israel exit permits

Over 50 injured, 9 with live ammunition, in clashes across Palestinian territory

Israeli Occupation Force says 2 rockets launched from Gaza amid violent protests over Trump’s Jerusalem decision

Hanan Ashrawi: Trump Is Making a Huge Mistake on Jerusalem: Wednesday’s announcement may finally put to rest the dream of a two-state solution

Trump lights powder keg in Middle East: China Daily

Trump move shows 'US and Israel are the same thing'

Iraq demands U.S. backtrack on Jerusalem, summons ambassador

US troops may become targets after US Jerusalem decision - Iraqi paramilitary group

Saudis condemn ‘irresponsible’ Trump Jerusalem shift

For Trump, an Embassy in Jerusalem Is a Political Decision, Not a Diplomatic One

Did This CIA Agent Try to Overthrow a Foreign Government? Turkey issued an arrest warrant on Friday for former CIA officer Graham Fuller

At least 10 killed in C. Africa clashes

U.S. kills 5 suspected militants in Somalia

Gunmen assassinate South Sudan MP in Uganda

14 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: 5 IS fighters killed, 10 inured in N. Afghan province

North Korea says U.S. threats make war unavoidable as China urges calm

North Korea ready to negotiate if US recognises it as nuclear power

Asia’s Other Nuclear Standoff; The U.S. is raising the nuclear stakes in Asia — including, dangerously, between India and Pakistan.

Putin meets Chinese top brass as two nations carry out anti-terror drills

Putin to visit Egypt on December 11

Former UK minister indicates Brexit referendum “deal” between Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron

Chinese Firm Sues Venezuela as Crisis Tests Ally's Patience

Crisis of Honduras democracy has roots in US tacit support for 2009

Judge orders arrest of former Argentine president

5 Richest Counties Are D.C. Suburbs: The five richest counties in the United States when measured by median household income are all suburbs of Washington, D.C

California wildfires bear down on Los Angeles suburbs