Archives for مايو 2017

Study: Americans Dying From Preventable Causes At Shocking Rates

The U.S. was tied with Estonia and Montenegro, far below other wealthy nations such as Norway, Canada, and Australia, in the study’s ranking of 195 countries.

بواسطة Nika Knight
Doctor

Americans are dying at a shockingly high rate from preventable causes, found a first-of-its-kind global health study published late Thursday. The new research demonstrates that despite the fact that the U.S. has the largest economy in the world, healthcare for many of its residents is woefully inadequate. The U.S. was tied with Estonia and

Israeli Justice Minister Slams White House Map Of Israel As Ignorant

Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet slammed U.S. ignorance and vowed to ensure Palestinians never get a state.

بواسطة Jason Ditz
Israel's Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, who famously stated: "This is a war against two people, not a war on terror, Israel must slaughter all Palestinian mothers who give birth to “little snakes."

With President Trump’s visit already riling several other members of Israel’s far-right government related to whether the Western Wall, which Israel captured militarily in 1967, is occupied, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked found a new reason to be outraged, the map of Israel that the White House has been circulating ahead of Trump’s

Murder In The Mediterranean – The Perils Of Fishing In Gaza

In 2016 alone, there were at least 126 incidents in which small wooden fishing vessels were fired on by the Israeli Navy.

بواسطة Ian Berman
Palestinian police officers sit in a small boat as they pass near an Israeli naval vessel

On Al Nakba Day of all days, the Israeli Navy killed another Palestinian fisherman, Muhammad Majid Bakr.  The second in this year alone.  The Israeli Navy claims Bakr’s fishing trawler responded neither to their calls, nor warning shots, after deviating “from the designated fishing zone in the northern Gaza Strip.” The boundaries of the fishing

US Imposes New Unilateral Sanctions On Venezuela

Senator Marco Rubio lambasted the eight judges for aiding and abetting Venezuela’s democratically-elected president.

بواسطة teleSUR
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., talks with Anderson Cooper during a commercial break at a CNN town hall event, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on eight current or former members of the Venezuela's Supreme Court Thursday, in its ongoing attacks on the Bolivarian nation. Senator Marco Rubio stood on the Senate floor Thursday and lambasted the eight judges for aiding and abetting Venezuela's

Will The Saudi Arabia’s $40B Infrastructure Gift Influence Trump?

Saudi Arabia has promised to make $40 billion of its sovereign wealth fund available to the United States to bankroll part of the roughly $1 trillion in infrastructure improvements.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

It’s “Infrastructure Week” in Washington, and foreign powers are taking note. Ahead of President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has promised to make $40 billion of its sovereign wealth fund available to the United States to bankroll part of the roughly $1 trillion in infrastructure improvements that Trump promised

Video Shows Syrian White Helmets Accepting Award From Al-Qaeda

A similar video was recently published showing the leader of Tahrir al-Sham (al-Qaeda in Syria), Abu-Jaber praising the White Helmets as the “hidden soldiers of the revolution.”

Read Saleh left, the head of the civil defense units in the northern city of Idlib, and Farouk al-Habib, right, a media campaigner for the White Helmets, sit on a panel to draw attention to their work in Syria in midtown New York, September, 2014.

Only days after being labeled the “hidden soldiers of the revolution” by the leader of Tahrir al-Sham (al-Qaeda in Syria), Abu Jaber, the White Helmets have now been exposed as having accepted an award from the terrorist group in Idlib after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organized a ceremony in their honor. Indeed, a video has been published that is