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Oil-Rich Arab States Quietly Join Israel In Cheering For Trump

“We are optimistic about the incoming administration and look forward to working with it in all areas that are a concern for both of us,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told reporters in Paris last week.

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Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman as they wait for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of a Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Riyadh (REPORT) – Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf Arab allies are happy to see Obama leave office as President Donald Trump would be “very, very tough” on Iran. While the world watched with horror as Donald Trump delivered his aggressive “America First” speech on the day of his inauguration, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies in the Persian

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What Trump EPA Contract Freeze Means For The Environment

The move could disrupt core operations ranging from toxic cleanups to water quality testing, according to records and interviews.

Jesse Eisinger
Andrew Revkin
بواسطة Jesse Eisinger
و Andrew Revkin
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials and visitors walk past a steaming mound of decontaminated soil during a tour of the Industrial Latex Superfund site in Wallington, N.J., Friday, Feb. 12, 1999. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)

The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency's budget allocations and even threaten to disrupt core operations ranging from toxic cleanups to water quality testing, according to records and interviews. In one email

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China: Western Democracy Has Been Kidnapped To Chase Profits

“The emergence of capitalism’s social crisis” the “most updated evidence to show the superiority of socialism and Marxism.”

James Holbrooks
بواسطة James Holbrooks
President Donald Trump arrives for a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Beijing (Analysis) — Over the weekend, China took to its state-run media to make clear its position on a number of areas as Donald Trump settles into the White House — even going so far as to call American-style democracy a “kidnapped” system under the control of self-interested capitalists. “Western style democracy used to be a recognized power

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The Zionist Record On Refugees

Historically, Zionists have put the interests of Israel over the humanitarian plight of refugees, even in the face of Nazi Germany and now in shying away from offending President Trump, writes Lawrence Davidson.

Lawrence Davidson
بواسطة Lawrence Davidson
Israeli soldiers and relatives of new Jewish immigrants from the U.S. and Canada, wave Israeli flags to welcome them as they arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 23, 2013.

It is a strange story. American Jews (and I expect it is the case with other Jews too) act in solidarity with other discriminated groups only if they, the Jews, resist Zionist leadership. If they follow the Zionist lead, they usually do one of two things: passively support the discriminatory majority or stay silent. This behavior is particularly

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Conservative Websites Demonize Women’s March Co-Chair Linda Sarsour

The attacks really aren’t only attacks against Sarsour. They are also a desperate effort to undermine the resistance against Trump by shifting attention to a single organizer.

Kevin Gosztola
بواسطة Kevin Gosztola
Women's march organizer, Linda Sarsour. (Photo: still from #InequalityIs: Linda Sarsour on inequality and race and religion)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A network of conservative websites has spread malicious attacks intended to demonize one of the co-chairs of the Women’s March, which mobilized millions of Americans to resist President Donald Trump’s administration. Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American Muslim racial justice and civil rights

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Donald Trump Warned Of A ‘Rigged’ Election, Was He Right?

With Donald Trump formally installed in the Oval Office, election integrity activist Jonathan Simon crunches the numbers and reflects on Election 2016, the death of electoral transparency and the thwarting of public will.

Jonathan D. Simon
بواسطة Jonathan D. Simon
Voters cast their ballots at Cynthia Mann Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP/Otto Kitsinger)

SANTA CRUZ, California --- (Insights) Whether viewed in terms of outcome or of process, the story of the 2016 presidential election is one so grim that it calls for a trigger warning for anyone of ethical sensibilities or faith in the workings of democracy. In a year that will be remembered by many for the number of revered individuals we lost,

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