This April 4th will be 100 years since the U.S. Senate voted to declare war on Germany and 50 since Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against the war on Vietnam . Events are being planned to help us try to finally learn some lessons, to move beyond, not just Vietnam, but war.
Category: Liberal Political News
Trump’s friend Jim fears to go to wildly popular Paris, but one nation IS seeing a tourism slump …
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But… Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that… **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK.
Canada’s Shameful Role in the Overthrow of Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah
A half-century and one year ago today Canada helped overthrow a leading pan Africanist president. Ghana’s Canadian-trained army overthrew Kwame Nkrumah, a leader dubbed “Man of the Millennium” in a 2000 poll by BBC listeners in Africa.
New report reveals top Israeli official living in illegal colonial settlement
An Israeli Finance Minister, who is in charge of implementing a law to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank, is himself living in an unlicensed building in an illegal colonial settlement on Occupied Palestinian land – and he is just one of many Israeli officials living in illegal settlements, according to a new report. The report, released Wednesday by the Palestine Liberation Organization, documented a number of top Israeli officials, many of whom are tasked with displacing Palestinians or demolishing their homes, living on illegally seized Palestinian land.
Dramatic Acceleration in Loss of Wild Forest
Here is how to turn a forest into a carbon-consuming machine that will help contain global warming. Leave it alone.
Emboldened by Trump, Israel Rapidly Expands Illegal Settlements
“The Trump administration is giving Israel the green light to entrench a separate and unequal one-state reality with more illegal settlements.” Emboldened by the new right-wing Trump administration, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a large settlement expansion-2,500 housing units-in the West Bank on Tuesday.
Emboldened by Trump, Israel Rapidly Expands Illegal Settlements
“The Trump administration is giving Israel the green light to entrench a separate and unequal one-state reality with more illegal settlements.” Emboldened by the new right-wing Trump administration, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a large settlement expansion-2,500 housing units-in the West Bank on Tuesday.
Cavuto: Hey Trump Is Cost-Cutting Defense, So Dems Should Gut Social Security
On this Saturday’s “Cavuto on Business,” the host opened things up with pretending Trump got something from Boeing then immediately implying that Dems should give up some of their “sacred cows” since Trump was willing to go after the Republicans’ “sacred cow,” defense spending. Not having the smallest clue as to how military procurement and contracts work is really helpful when arguing for “both sides” to give up something.
Why Obama Broke with Israel at UN
Jordan Fabian, The Hill: The White House’s decision to break with decades of U.S. policy and allow the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements is the culmination of years of bad blood between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. … Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, said the rapid expansion of settlement activity under Netanyahu had put the possibility of a future peace agreement at risk.