Archives for نوفمبر 2016

Clinton Campaign To Join In Recount Effort, As Stein Officially Files In Wisconsin

Green Party’s Jill Stein also expected to pursue recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

بواسطة Deirdre Fulton
Jill Stein filing for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday, November 25. (Photo: Jill Stein/Facebook)

Hillary Clinton's campaign said Saturday it will participate in electoral recounts in Wisconsin—where such an effort was officially initiated on Friday—as well as in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who has raised more than $5 million toward the effort, filed for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday

Israeli Airstrike Kills Four ISIS Fighters Along Syria Frontier

Until today, the ISIS versus Israel battle was purely rhetoric, with ISIS making a lot of threats but remaining wholly focused on fighting the Shi’ites in Syria.

بواسطة Jason Ditz
Israeli soldiers walks near the border with Syria near the site of a Sunday Israeli airstrike, in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, Monday, April 27, 2015. Israel's military said Sunday it launched an airstrike on its border with Syria after spotting militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli and ISIS forces exchanged gunfire today in the Golan Heights, leading to an Israeli military airstrike against what they described as an ISIS vehicle, killing four people within. This is the first time the two sides have exchanged fire during the course of ISIS’ expansion across the region. This could mark a significant shift in the

The Wheels Of Justice Won’t Budge For A Scottish Woman Killed In Israel

The case of Julie Pearson is bigger than the death of one woman and her family’s ongoing struggle for justice. It’s a lens through which to view larger institutional and cultural failings that allow violence against women to go unpunished almost as a matter of routine in Israel.

Julie Pearson was found dead in Israel last November, allegedly beaten to death by her boyfriend. Her family in Scotland has waited, with increasing frustration, for the creaky wheels of Israeli justice to turn for Julie. This week marks the one-year anniversary of her tragic death.

SEATTLE --- When you’ve studied the Israeli-Arab conflict for as many decades and from as long a geographical distance as I have, you tend to emphasize major events and phenomena: the Occupation, wars, armies, Zionism, Palestinian nationalism, etc. It seems only natural to focus mainly on the Big Picture. Of course, the real tragedy is writ

The New Silk Road In Central America: Nicaragua Marches Forward

Wall Street banks and corporations operate with relative impunity in many Latin American countries often leading to persistent poverty. Nicaragua, determined to avoid the pitfalls suffered by her neighbors,is turning to China to help boost the local economy, and the results are promising.

بواسطة Caleb T. Maupin
In this June 14, 2013 file photo, President Daniel Ortega, left, and Chinese businessman Wang Jing hold up a concession agreement for the construction of a multibillion-dollar canal at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

(Analysis) -- Proponents of Western capitalism tend to talk a lot about “development.” If one reads the publications of the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, or writings of economists like Milton Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs, one gets the impression that Western corporations are helping impoverished countries by doing business with

New Study Suggests Cannabis Could Help Ease The Opioid Epidemic

‘I like to say that instead of cannabis being a gateway drug into harder drugs, I think that we might see cannabis being used as a gateway drug out of our current opioid epidemic,’ a cannabis industry consultant with a background in law enforcement tells MintPress News.

A marijuana bud is seen at a medical marijuana facility in Unity, Maine. A new study suggests that cannabis could help ease the deadly opioid epidemic in the United States. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

AUSTIN, Texas --- A new study suggests that cannabis could help ease the deadly opioid epidemic in the United States. Participants reported “a notable decrease in their use of conventional pharmaceutical agents,” including a 42-percent drop in the use of opiates, according to the pilot study published in Frontiers in Pharmacology on Oct.

After Brutal Assault By Police, Volunteers Prepare A Thanksgiving Feast For Standing Rock Water Protectors

‘To this day, treaties are being broken for the benefit of white expansionism,’ wrote the organizer of a Thanksgiving Day feast to be served at the encampment where Native ‘water protectors’ and their allies continue to resist the Dakota Access pipeline.

Phil Daw Sr., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps cook beef stew to feed hundreds at an encampment near North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux reservation. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, North Dakota --- As thousands of Native Americans and their allies continue their efforts to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, a volunteer team is preparing to cook them a feast in a gesture of gratitude. About 50 volunteers are traveling to the Standing Rock reservation, home to a massive