By Mashal Hashem and James Allen (*) – TomDispatch.com. /The Nation In 2018 alone, weapons manufacturers—who spend millions in lobbying efforts to retain political support in Washington—made over $5 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A springtime wedding in…
By Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Eric Schmitt – The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump has sought to put the brakes on a brewing confrontation with Iran in recent days, telling the acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, that he does not want to go to war with…
Sina Toossi * – Newsweek Iran’s decision to retaliate against the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal was inevitable, so long as its back was pushed against the wall. Iran exercised “strategic patience” for the past year, hoping that the other parties to the deal would stand…
By David Smith* – The Guardian Evangelical backing for a thrice-married celebrity is not as odd as it seems: on abortion, the supreme court and more, the president keeps delivering After bowing his head in prayer, Donald Trump addressed faith leaders in the sunshine of the…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism This is a useful article as far as it goes, but it may not go far enough for the taste of some readers. The first is that it may miss the real source of the outtrade between the US and China, which is that China appears not to accept a…
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch Indebted, exploited, hunt down, shamed at Home… The harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants Sorry for coming back to this issue, but its immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on another aspect, which is deliberately…
Emily Schultheis* – The Atlantic Rather than opting to leave the EU like the U.K., Europe’s far-right parties have instead advocated for change “from within.” BERLIN—Ahead of this month’s European Parliament elections, the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party…
The Guardian Trump tells visiting PM: ‘You’re respected all over Europe’ Critics attack Orbán for eroding democracy and human rights Trump praises Hungary’s far-right leader Orbán: ‘He’s a respected man’ – as it happened Julian Borger (*) in Washington and Shaun Walker (**) in…
By William Mebane The writer is former Director of Energy Efficiency Department at ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development In 2007 a MIT survey revealed that nearly 60% of Americans feel that “until we are sure that…
By Asoka Bandarage* Sri Lanka has been convulsed since the nine coordinated suicide bomb attacks against Christian churches and five star hotels on Easter Sunday. More than 250 people lost their lives and many others were injured on that fateful day.
