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World Repudiates US Over Jerusalem Despite Haley’s Pre-Vote Bullying and ‘Temper Tantrum’ on UN Stage

Despite U.S. threats, the U.N. voted 128-9 to declare Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital “null and void”.

Jake Johnson
بواسطة Jake Johnson
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, not seen, in his residence in Jerusalem, Israel, June 7, 2017. (Debbie Hill/AP)

In a speech one critic likened to "a bully throwing a temper tantrum on the world stage," U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday slammed U.N. member states for refusing to line up in support of President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and threatened to withdraw funding if America

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Washington’s Pre-War Demonization Formula Is Targeting Iran, Again

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s grandiose performance in front of the UN on December 15 should send shivers down the spines of those who remember Colin Powell’s equally disturbing performance in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This is just the beginning of the a new media campaign against Iran with regime change as the end goal.

Darius Shahtahmasebi
بواسطة Darius Shahtahmasebi
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley speaks in front recovered segments of a rocket the U.S. and Saudi Arabia allege came from Iran during a press briefing at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Cliff Owen)

WASHINGTON (Analysis) -- The United States has had Iran in its crosshairs for decades and current media coverage indicates that US-Iranian relations are only getting worse. In 1953, the CIA overthrew Iran’s democratically elected leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, and replaced him with a brutal U.S.- and U.K.-backed dictator, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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Jesus Stood Up To The Roman Empire And He’d Resist US Empire Today

From the time he was old enough to attend school, Jesus would have been drilled in lessons of compliance and obedience to government authorities, while learning little about his own rights.

John Whitehead
بواسطة John Whitehead
Activists come face-to-face with police officers while protesting NATO in Chicago Saturday, May 19, 2012. (Photo by Norbert Schiller/Mint Press)

“Jesus is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus from ‘extremism.’”—author Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant OPINION -- The Christmas narrative of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and

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Viral Video of Koch Billionaire Son Shows Who Benefits From GOP Tax Scam

The young Koch—who counts among his favorite things “playing tennis at Mar-a-Lago”—according to Vanity Fair, “runs an eponymous Palm Beach-based clothing brand called Wyatt Ingraham, which sells button-up shirts in patterns you may find on a Goldman Sachs middle manager at a Southampton Fourth of July party when he wants to ‘let loose.'” One such shirt is “festooned with actual money bags.”

Jessica Corbett
بواسطة Jessica Corbett

After Congressional Republicans approved a tax plan on Wednesday that gives massive tax breaks to corporations and wealthy Americans while raising taxes on working families, the son of billionaire Bill Koch, emerged as the face of those who will benefit from the scheme while it turbocharges inequality and lays the groundwork for a massive assault

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WHO: ‘Preventable’ Cholera In Yemen Reaches Over 1 Million Cases

Cholera is a disease that causes acute diarrhoea that could lead to the death of those affected within hours if not treated. Malnourished children aged five and under are most prone to the disease.

Middle East Monitor
بواسطة Middle East Monitor
A girl is treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization says a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed thousands of lives since April and is suspected of affecting 246,000 people. (AP/Hani Mohammed)

There are currently one million people infected with cholera in wartorn Yemen, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday Some 2,225 people have died on the disease since 27 April, it added. The UN organisation issued a report stating that as of Monday, there were 983,486 cases of Cholera in Yemen. The organisation also noted

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US Making Plans For ‘Bloody Nose’ Military Attack On North Korea

In reality, analysts agree that North Korea would see any attack as the start of a full-scale war of regime change, and standing military orders are to retaliate against US targets with everything they have, assuming everything not used will be destroyed in the US strikes at any rate.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
A man watches a television screen showing President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 10, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

According to a new report in the Daily Telegraph, the concerns about a US attack on North Korea are very well-founded, and the White House has “dramatically” stepped up plans for what it is calling a “bloody nose” attack on North Korea. Apparently ignoring months of analyst warnings that there is no way to have a “limited” war with North Korea,

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