Archives for فبراير 2017

11 Women Killed In Saudi Airstike On Yemeni Funeral Home

Last year, coalition airstrikes hit a funeral hall in the capital Sanaa, killing 140 mourners, including children, and wounded over 600 others.

بواسطة Xinhua
People gather at the site of Saudi airstrikes in a region in Yemen’s Dhamar province, October 8, 2015. ©AP

SANAA (REPORT) -- The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemeni dominant Houthi rebels killed at least 11 women in an airstrike on a funeral house north of the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, a medic and security official said. Ten others, also women, were critically wounded "when the airstrike hit the funeral in Shira area in Arhab district," the medic

Making America Broke Again: Trump & The Inevitable Financial Crisis

Trump can either ‘bite the bullet’ now if he really wants to improve the American economy or he can ‘kick the can down the road’ like his predecessors have, noted financial commentator Peter Schiff tells MintPress.

بواسطة Whitney Webb
President Donald Trump, right, Vice President Mike Pence, left, witness Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin accompanied by his fiancée Louise Linton sign documents after he was sworn-in by the vice president, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON --- Barack Obama insisted throughout his time in office that the financial crisis that began in 2008 and fundamentally altered the U.S. economic landscape was a thing of the past. Despite Obama’s insistence that his economic “recovery” was successful and that critics of his economic policy were “peddling fiction,” many Americans were not

The Context Of Trump’s Vile Aggression Against Venezuela

The announcement of sanctions against Venezuela’s vice president conveniently left out some revealing, and self-incriminating, details.

بواسطة teleSUR
A protester holds up an poster of Uncle Sam during a rally protesting U.S. regime change efforts in Venezuela at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

(ANALYSIS) --- On Monday, the U.S. launched its latest diplomatic attack on Venezuela by officially putting Vice President Tareck El Aissami on a sanctions list reserved for "drug kingpins" without offering any evidence or issuing any criminal charges. Venezuela was quick to respond, with the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez

Private Prisons Positioned To Reap Massive Profits From Immigrantion Raids

CoreCivic — formerly the Corrections Corporation of America — has said it is able to provide the extra detention facilities needed to enforce Trump’s executive orders on immigration.

بواسطة teleSUR
Mexico Immigration

(Report) --- U.S. President Donald Trump has begun to follow through on his promise to crack down on immigration and roll out harsh border securitization, and while undocumented immigrants will face the suffer the gravest repercussions, private prisons, on the other hand, stand to be the biggest beneficiaries. In just two weeks since Trump

Republicans Block Effort To Obtain Trump’s Tax Returns

GOP members of the House Ways and Means Committee voted against using an obscure law to obtain the records.

بواسطة Lauren McCauley
Marching protesters hold up a sign demanding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump release his tax returns, in Miami on Sept. 16. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

(REPORT) --- Ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say they want President Donald Trump to release his taxes, GOP lawmakers who have the power to obtain the records on Tuesday blocked an effort to do so. Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously against using an obscure law which leans on the body's legal

CIA Chief Holds Secret Meeting With Palestinian President Ahead Of Netanyahu Visist

Palestinian officials said Abbas briefed Pompeo on Palestinian positions ahead of Wednesday’s White House talks between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

بواسطة Associated Press
CIA Chief Mike Pompeo is scheduled to arrive Thursday, Feb. 9 in Turkey to discuss security issues on his first overseas trip in his new role (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

RAMALLAH, West Bank (RPEORT) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met secretly with the CIA chief in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said Wednesday, as they expressed concern over the Trump administration's suggestion that a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel is optional. Mike Pompeo and Abbas held talks Tuesday at the