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November 19, 2018

Syria - Back In The Arab Fold
By Moon Of Alabama
Following Syria's military success against its enemies, Arab states which supported the war on Syria are again making nice with it.   - Continue

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The Iranian Albatross the US Has Hung Around Its Own Neck
By Alastair Cooke
Why the Trump Administration continues to view an MbS-led Kingdom as somehow still a fount of strategic stability.   - Continue

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It’s Time for U.S. to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars
By Murtaza Hussain
“They turn away … because the carnage challenges their strongly held self-perception that their country is a force for good in the world.”   - Continue

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North Korea ‘Deception’: NYT Malpractice or Laziness?
By Gareth Porter
The media continues its attempts to blow up Trump's nuke negotiations.   - Continue

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We Can Remember The Great War – But Palestinians Still Have to Live it
By Robert Fisk
For those refugees, still in their hovels and shacks as a result of the Balfour Declaration, the First World War never ended.   - Continue

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The Art of the Smear — The Israel Lobby Busted
By Sheldon Richman
Israel pulverized Gaza and its people; it shot and broke the bones of too many children before too many video cameras.   - Continue

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As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
By Glenn Greenwald
The First Amendment isn’t available only to a certain class of people licensed as “journalists.”   - Continue

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Letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Re Julian Assange
By Pamela Anderson
What are you going to say to millions of Australians when one of their own is marched in an orange jumpsuit to Guantanamo Bay – for publishing the truth.   - Continue

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Shithole Countries: Made in the USA
By Robert Fantina
It is the U.S. that is responsible for the poverty and suffering in these very nations.   - Continue

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This Thanksgiving, Don’t Just Give Thanks. Pay Your Blessings Forward
By John W. Whitehead
This is evil disguised as bureaucracy. This is what Hannah Arendt referred to as the banality of evil.   - Continue

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Syria: 'US kills more than 40 people including civilians'

'25 killed' as Turkey battles Syrian fighters accused of 'plundering'; On Sunday, Turkish forces in the northern Syrian district of Afrin imposed a curfew after heavy fighting reportedly killed 25 people.

Two Syrian soldiers killed in shelling attack by militants in Aleppo

Syrian forces liberate last Daesh holdout in south: Monitor

Graphic 18+: Daesh corpses litter battlefield as Syrian troops liberate key region

Syrian Army seizes US and Israeli-made weapons in Daraa

CORRECTION: Reuters withdraws alert that chemical weapons watchdog found Sarin used in an April 4, 2017, attack on Idlib, Syria.

Iraqi security kill 10 IS militants in Salahuddin province

Car bomb attack kills five Iraqis, wounds 16 others in Tikrit

Islamic State militants kill two Iraqi policemen in Iraq’s Makhmur

80 pct of Iraqi children have suffered violence: UNICEF

Five Saudi-paid Sudanese troopers slain in Yemeni army offensive

UAE-backed Yemeni security official killed in Aden

Report says 1 in 3 US drone-strike deaths in Yemen are civilians, including children

Houthis ready for ceasefire if Saudi-UAE alliance wants 'peace'

Father mourns baby who died of starvation in Yemen: Saleh al-Faqeh held the wasted arm of his baby girl as she took her last breath on Thursday at the malnutrition ward of the main hospital in Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

Oops: House Democrats Mistakenly Cast Votes Blocking Resolution on Ending Yemen War

CIA says the Saudi Crown Prince ordered the murder of Washington Post columnist: Reports

Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder premature but possible

Trump says 'full report' on Khashoggi murder in two days

Germany halts all arms exports to Saudi Arabia

Saudi king urges action against Iran

Russia eyeing settlements with Iran in national currencies

The Victims of Iran Sanctions: Iranians’ access to medicine is being choked off by the Trump administration’s illegitimate reimposition of sanctions:

Why Trump’s Bankrupt Iran Policy Can’t Succeed

Dozen Palestinians wounded by Israeli gunfire across West Bank

Israel’s Suicidal Passion for Tribal Nationalism : An Israeli who sees beyond the circumference of his navel:

US warns of 'consequences' as Palestine joins international bodies: The United States has threatened "consequences" as Palestinians step up efforts for statehood demanding accession to almost a dozen international bodies and conventions.

AFRICA

Death toll in C Africa clashes rises to 48: UN

Five Mourners Killed By Soldier In DRC

Three soldiers killed in CAR army shootout

U.S. Treasury places sanctions on Libyan Islamist commander Badi

ASIA

More than 36 militants killed or injured in W. Afghanistan

Taliban Shadow District Chief Among 20 Killed in Kandahar Raid

Another Pentagon report with glum news on Afghanistan: The NATO-led mission in Afghanistan “assessed that 65 percent of the Afghan population lived in areas under Afghan government control or influence

Pakistan: PM Imran fires back at Trump in scathing rejoinder: US should do self-assess­ment instea­d of making Pakist­an scapeg­oat for its failur­es in Afghan­istan, says Khan

China, Japan's U.S. Treasuries holdings fall further in September; China and Japan, the two biggest foreign U.S. creditors, cut their U.S. Treasury holdings further in September

Australia-US Naval Base to 'Counter' China 'Ambitions': Over the weekend, the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, announced a joint collaboration between his country and Australia on the Manus Naval Base, to host more warships in the Pacific.

EUROPE

‘Highly likely’ that Magnitsky was poisoned by toxic chemicals on Bill Browder’s orders – Moscow: Kremlin critic Bill Browder may have given the order for his employee Sergei Magnitsky to be poisoned with a rare toxin in a Russian prison cell

European travel ban imposed on 18 Saudis over Khashoggi killing: Ban covering 26-nation Schengen zone was coordinated with France and UK, Germany says

European diplomats mount last-ditch effort to stop US scrapping INF treaty: 1987 treaty has kept nuclear weapons out of Europe

Spain threatens to reject May's Brexit deal over Gibraltar

No-deal Brexit 'would leave business on brink of chaos'

Labour leader Corbyn calls for general election and tells business to reject May's 'blindfold Brexit'

GLOBE

Judge orders Amazon to turn over Echo recordings in double murder case

Will our smart devices become a massive surveillance network?

Facebook is on track to post its longest losing streak ever, and some say there's more pain ahead

AMERICAS

Death toll from Northern California wildfire climbs to 77: 1,000 names were still listed as missing

Homebuilder confidence plummets to the lowest level in more than two years as 'demand stalls'

US Household Debt Hits Record $13.5 Trillion As Delinquencies Hit 6 Year High

Hedge-fund boss who predicted ‘87 crash says get ready for some ‘really scary moments’

While teachers struggle, billionaire education secretary's security costs to hit nearly $20 million

Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners: Thanks to an ACLU victory in federal court, we know much more about how CIA doctors violated the medical oath to “do no harm.”

CNN asks for emergency hearing after Trump threatens to revoke Acosta's press pass again

Democratic senators SUE to have Trump's appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general declared unconstitutional by a judge

 

 

 

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