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WOMEN BEWARE: SAUDI ARABIA CHARGED WITH SHAPING GLOBAL STANDARDS FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY
Who Let the Saudi Fox in the Hen House?
Medea Benjamin
It’s hard to sink to a greater depth of hypocrisy than voting Saudi Arabia onto a UN Commission charged with promoting women’s equality and empowerment. And yet, on April 23rd, that is precisely what the UN Economic and Social Council did. Of the 54 countries on the Council, 47 of them agreed to add Saudi Arabia to a four-year term on the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Truth defenders: Two Men Who Made Their Mark on History
By Linn Washington, Jr.
One man enhanced the legacy of a legend revered around the world.
Accomplishments of the other man include his involvement in a seminal court battle where the trial judge issued a pivotal ruling about racism that sparked enraged denials among authorities in that nation.
New Gary Lindorff poem in ThisCantBeHappening!: What am I shouting?
I saw a photo of an elephant in a concrete cell
alone,
so alone.
PA DOC Will Finally Treat Mumia's Hep-C infection, But Only Because Prison's Neglect has Caused Cirrhosis
By Dave Lindorff
Ryancare wreckage: Don the Con's Health Care Pushes Serious Problems Aside
fdsBy Linn Washington, Jr.
The desperate scramble of President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress to salvage a cure for their ailing health care proposal to replace Obamacare completely ignores correcting a deadly problem plaguing the very heart of America’s health care system.
The Gov. Lamm approach: Social Security Starves Us Slowly as the GOP Tries to Kill Us by Gutting Health Care
By Dave Lindorff
The Sessions stench: Trump AG Jeff Sessions is Trapped in the Malodorous Maelstrom of an ‘Alabama Hurricane’
By Linn Washington, Jr.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the target of demands for resignation due to his triggering yet another Trump Administration scandal related to lying under oath in the Senate about contacts with Russian officials, finds himself in an ‘Alabama Hurricane’ of his own making.
Bigot boy business: Trump Exposes His Ignorance and Intolerance -- Again
By Linn Washington Jr.
Twice in recent weeks President Donald Trump reinforced his image of ignorance on African-Americans with astounding statements. Those statements amplified concerns about this president who rose to the Oval Office through a campaign tarred by brazen bigotry from his surrogates, his supporters and himself.
Time’s running out: As his Last Act in Office, President Obama Should Right a Terrible Wrong and Free Leonard Peltier
By Dave Lindorff
Big win for Hep-C infected inmates: Federal Judge Orders Pennsylvania to Provide Anti-Viral Hep-C Treatment to Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Dave Lindorff
In a stunning conclusion to a year-and-a-half legal drama, a federal judge in Scranton, has ordered the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to quit stalling and to begin treating prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal with the latest available and highly effective anti-viral drugs for curing him of a raging and life-threatening case of Hepatitis C.
Opening salvo: Get Ready for an All-Out Assault on Social Security by Washington in 2017
By Dave Lindorff
The hail-mary answer to a Trump presidency: Progressives Still Have a Trump Card to Play against Trumpian Autocracy
By Dave Lindorff
Wounded Knee III in the making?: It’s Cowboy Cops Cavalry against Peaceful Indians and their Anglo Supporters at Standing Rock
By Dave Lindorff
The president’s last con: Obama Falsely Claims He ‘Can’t Pardon’ Snowden Unless the Whistleblower Returns to US to Face Trial
By Dave Lindorff
About that legacy, Mr. President: Obama Has a Small Window to Go Out with Some Flair and Excitement
By Dave Lindorff
There is a lot of talk going on among the pundits about how President Obama is leaving no enduring legacy -- that his progressive actions as president, few and small that they may have been, were written in the sand of executive orders, which can and likely will be erased within days of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Focus: Turkey - Nov 12, 2016
Note: I strongly disagree with General Flynn opinion on Turkey and Gulen: Under Erdogan, Turkey is not an ally in the fight against ISIS; Gulen is not a 'masked source of terror.'
Turkish media lights up with Gen. Michael Flynn's call to extradite Gulen - Breitbart
Egypt's foreign ministry condemns statements by Turkish President Erdogan - allAfrica.com
Greece concerned Trump administration may show favoritism to Turkey - GreekReporter.com
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Turkey arrests head of opposition newspaper - AFP
Report: French journalist detained in Turkey - AP
Turkish dissident journalist Can Dündar granted citizenship of Paris - hurriyetdailynews.com
UN’s arrested Turkish justice denies Gülen links, says he is a Freemason - hurriyetdailynews.com
Turkey complaints pile up at European rights court - hurriyetdailynews.com
Ankara denies torture accusations as prisons fill with dissenters - al-monitor.com
Erdogan makes veiled threat to unleash 3 million refugees into the EU - Greek Reporter
20,000 Anti-Turkish Govt Protesters Demonstrate in Cologne - ABC News
VIDEO: Clashes break out as thousands rally against Turkey’s Erdogan in Cologne - RT News
Focus: Turkey - Nov 9, 2016
HDP Co-chair Demirtaş in solitary confinement since last week, lawyer says - Turkish Minute
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EU's Mogherini comments on Turkey 'unacceptable': foreign ministry - Reuters
EU report: Turkey backslides in fundamental rights and rule of law - Turkish Minute
Key findings of the EU 2016 Report on Turkey (full report included) - European Commission
Ankara rebuffs EU’s harsh progress report - hurriyetdailynews.com
Turkish government criticizes EU envoys at HDP meeting - hurriyetdailynews.com
PM Yıldırım blasts Germany for supporting terrorist organizations against Turkey - POLITICS
Erdogan threatens to ‘open the gates’ for refugees in EU dispute - ft.com
Turkey urges Trump to extradite Gulen - Al Arabiya English
Turkey arrests 55 more pilots in post-coup investigations: NTV - Reuters
UN judge under detention in Turkey in aftermath of coup - Fox News
Reporters Without Borders representative on trial in Turkey for ′terror propaganda′ - DW.COM
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Turkey, U.S. backed Syrian Kurds at loggerheads over Raqqa offensive - The Boston Globe
Turkey FM says 200 YPG terrorists remain in Manbij, calls on US to fulfill pledge - Daily Sabah
Why Turkey's hostile stance doesn't worry PYD leader - al-monitor.com
US rejects cooperating with Russia or Assad in Raqqa operation - ARA News
Iraq ‘ready for war’ with Turkey over who should control Mosul after Isis – Global Affairs Press
Trump, Turkey's Erdogan discuss boosting ties, fighting terrorism: sources - Reuters
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Of silver linings: Trump’s Presidency, the Demise of the Major Parties, and the Need for a New Progressive Movement
By Dave Lindorff
Let’s look on the bright side.
Lobbyist for Dakota Access Formerly Led Army's "Restore Iraqi Oil" Program
Photo Credit: C-SPAN Screenshot
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Robert Crear, one of the lobbyists working for Dakota Access pipeline co-owners Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, formerly served as a chief of staff and commanding general for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
This Natural Disaster Assistance Law Is Why Other States Are Policing Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Almost exactly 20 years ago, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill creating an interstate agreement for emergency management. That inconspicuous law has opened the door for the current flood of out-of-state law enforcement agents present at the continuing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota.
Lost drug war: Pot Decriminalization Yields $9-million in Savings for Philadelphia
By Linn Washington, Jr.
A vivid example of value from decriminalization of possessing small amounts of marijuana occurred at the Philadelphia airport recently, a few days after the release of a report from two prominent organizations that called for the national decriminalization of personal use/possession of marijuana and other illicit drugs.
Social Security checks to rise just 0.3% in 2017: Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled
By Dave Lindorff
Abusing the abused: Philly Police Abuse Case Typifies All-Too-Common Misconduct by US Prosecutors
By Linn Washington, Jr.
Do Western Nations Care about Yemeni Lives or Saudi Blood Money?
How much is the life of a Yemeni worth? Not much, according to the Saudi regime that has been bombing and starving the people of Yemen since March 2015, or to the Saudi’s western backers, particularly the US and UK, which have been supplying the Saudi regime with weapons, military training, logistical support and diplomatic cover for its dirty interventionist war.
We got 8 years of change, but not much hope: President Barack Obama’s Crappy Legacy
By Dave Lindorff
Barack Obama came into the White House on a wave of passionate new voters, many of them black or young and white, becoming the nation's first black president and promising a new era of "hope and change."
