News/Politics

Saudi ‘House of Pseud’ thrives on deception
 
 
 
By Finian Cunningham

Kerry on despot tour to reassure

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 Appeasement dooms Palestinians to everlasting misery

 
by Stuart Littlewood
UN’s precious gift empowering legal action is squandered while Israel, with US/UK/EU acquiescence, continues to seize land and resources with impunity
 
Later this month Palestinians will be celebrating an important anniversary, namely the decision by the UN General Assembly a year ago to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state.

THE OLIVE TREE

 
The still slow life is mine, my days are years.
 Tied to the soil, I reach towards the sky,
 as men rush by, so driven by their fears,
 and with their fears intact pass on and die.
                          From Plato’s Olive Tree
                          Unknown author
 
 Paul Balles
 

Israeli Settler Violence Season

 
 by Yousef Munayyer
 

Cut Zionist genocide, feed Americans instead
 
 
by Finian Cunningham
Some 47 million poor Americans – one in four children – see their already meager federal food allowances slashed this week.
The cuts amount to $4 billion a year over the next decade.

Israel Buys the US Congress:  Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations

 
James Petras
 
 
“Pro-Israel Policy groups such as AIPAC work with unlimited funding to divert US policy in the region (Middle East)”  Jack Straw, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party

 Forget Democrazy, Give Me Safe Borders
 

 

House of Saud May Throw Oily Spanner into US-Iran Talks Gambit
 

 
The apparent about-turn in US policy, first in baulking at the launch of an all-out military strike on Syria last month, and then secondly, the surprise US-led rapprochement towards Tehran over the decade-old nuclear dispute, has provoked Saudi ire to its very theocratic foundations.

White House Expected to Ease Sanctions Targeting Syria

by FRANKLIN LAMB
Damascus
Additional easing of Syrian sanctions is expected by mid-November according to staff at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Control (OFAC).