New Saudi King to Obama: Lower-Price Oil Policy Won’t Change
Oil prices continue to plummet, hurting states in the U.S. such as North Dakota, where fractured petroleum can't compete with the prices. Yet, King Salman refuses to change the policy or give up Saudi Arabia's oil market share.
Amnesty urges US to pay reparations to Syrians after killing 1,600 civilians in assault...
"We’ve been presenting our cases to the U.S. coalition, asking them to acknowledge them and to move forward with some form of restitution and reparations."
No shelter left as Israeli forces displace 180,000 Palestinians in ten days
A renewed wave of Israeli bombings and ground offensives has displaced 180,000 people in 10 days, with schools, homes, and designated “safe zones” turned into mass graves—many funded by U.S. weapons and shielded by diplomatic silence.
World ignores Sudan hunger crisis; 230,000 children and mothers could die in coming months
“This is the largest sort of mass mortality crisis that we are facing in the world and the largest that we have probably faced for many decades.”
Searching for Rojava
Rojava’s experiment is no more than a radical democracy, which grew out of a cult of personality. So why is an experiment in direct democracy under siege the best-kept secret in the Middle East?
Can the Pentagon win when putsch comes to shove?
A rare pentagon “success” story.
In this Korean crisis, Trump’s bullying tactics aren’t working and never will
The more that Trump threatens North Korea the more paranoid its leaders become; and the more they intensify efforts to successfully develop a nuclear strike capability.
NYT buries news that experts on genocide say Israel is committing it
The New York Times buried the news in the 31st paragraph of a story headlined “Israel’s Push for a Permanent Gaza Deal May Mean a Longer War, Experts Say.”
Tread carefully
The folly of the next Afghan “surge.”
Saudi women may soon be behind the wheel, but still not in the drivers’...
Though a hard-won victory for Saudi women, we should recognize that the biggest impediment for women has not been the inability to drive.