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Turkey Snubs Trump, Announces Opening of Embassy in East Jerusalem

Most countries consider East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after capturing it in a 1967 war, to be occupied territory, and say the status of the city should be left to be decided at future Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Middle East Monitor
بواسطة Middle East Monitor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes an opening speech of the extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the Lutfi Kirdar International Convention and Exhibition Center in Istanbul, Turkey on December 13, 2017 (Kayhan Özer/Anadolu Agency)

Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognize it as the capital of Palestine. “God willing, the day is close when officially, with God’s permission, we will open our embassy there,” Erdogan said in a speech, maintaining his

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Justice Department Has No Idea If Their Incarceration Alternatives Work

The Justice Department’s ignorance gives contractors an opening for more business without having to prove that their lucrative services actually provide the support needed to reduce recidivism.

Brian Sonenstein
بواسطة Brian Sonenstein
Razor wire at the maximum-security Mount Olive Correctional Center in Mount Olive, W.Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

The Justice Department is not evaluating the performance of pretrial diversion programs, residential re-entry centers, and home confinement, according to congressional testimony from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Under President Barack Obama administration, the Justice Department sought to reduce booming federal prison populations

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Venezuelan Opposition Awarded EU Human Rights Prize amid Controversy

Leftist Eurodeputies have opposed the move, calling the South American country’s opposition violent and anti-democratic.

Lucas Koerner
بواسطة Lucas Koerner
Leopoldo Lopez

The European Parliament honored Venezuela’s right-wing opposition with its prestigious Sakharov human rights prize during a ceremony in Strasbourg on Wednesday. National Assembly (AN) President Julio Borges received the award on behalf of the opposition-controlled legislature and the country’s so-called “political prisoners”, to whom the prize

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Big Media and Big Money in 2017: from Disney/Murdoch to Net Neutrality

Last week’s events have shown that the new digital media landscape is every bit as monopolistic as the old one. And what’s Murdoch up to now?

Des Freedman
بواسطة Des Freedman
FILE- In this Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017 file photo, Rupert Murdoch waits for the start of the men's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Analysis -- Two seminal events that took place last week – the FCC’s vote to scrap net neutrality rules and Rupert Murdoch’s sale of vast chunks of his empire to Disney – are a stark reminder of what really matters in the contemporary media economy: size and influence. The Trump-era Federal Communications Commission has eagerly succumbed to a

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Watch Saudi Arabia’s Cartoonish Propaganda Film Showing an Invasion of Iran

The short film has been widely “mocked” on social media as nothing more than propaganda from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
Saudi Arabia Saudi Deterrent Force

It’s been a little over three weeks since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) called the Supreme Leader of Iran “the new Hitler of the Middle East”, escalating the war of words and ultimately launching the next leg up in the infowar between both countries. And now the Saudi media, building on that rhetoric, just published a powerful

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A One-State Solution with Equal Rights is the Only Answer to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration

The demand for a democracy with equal rights over all of historic Palestine must be made loud and clear. Israel must make way for a political reality where the voices of all people are heard and the rights of all people are guaranteed.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled
Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing

JERUSALEM (Opinion) -- Jerusalem was an Arab and Muslim city for close to 1300 years. Like other parts of Palestine, it was a harmonious mosaic. But, though there was always a Christian and Jewish presence -- both of people and of monuments -- it was predominantly a Muslim city. This was violently disrupted twice: first in the year 1099, from

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