by TD Daniell | December 18, 2015 | Current News
Medea Benjamin Common Dreams After almost a year of civil war, the conflicting forces in Yemen sat down on December 15 in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the prospect of finding a political solution to the conflict that has been raging since March 2015. While this is...
by TD Daniell | December 10, 2015 | Current News
Mark Weisbrot The Hill Venezuela’s opposition has won a large majority of the country’s legislature, or National Assembly, for the first time in 16 years. Many observers in Washington see this as a tipping point for Venezuelan politics. What are we to make...
by TD Daniell | December 7, 2015 | Current News
Mai Abu Moghli and Nael Bitarie The Nation After the horrific terror attacks in Paris and Beirut and the downing of a Russian jetliner over the Sinai, as many as 31 US governors said Syrian refugees were unwelcome. By contrast, President Barack Obama called on world...
by TD Daniell | December 3, 2015 | Current News
American Friends Service Committee Israel’s policy of building settlements in occupied territory is one of the core issues in the conflict. Illegal under international law, settlements are built on confiscated or stolen Palestinian land, are one of the core...
by TD Daniell | November 24, 2015 | Current News
Robert Fisk The Independent Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. “Whoa, boy!” were his words. And they should be repeated now to the politicians, historians...
