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Trump ‘Plan’ Would Create A Fictitious Palestinian State Devoid Of Rights Under International Law

February 4, 2020 François Dubuisson, Mondoweiss.net , ,
After being announced shortly after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the “Plan” (modestly called “the Vision”) supposed to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made public on January 28th. It is therefore now possible to analyse its substance in detail, deepening the reflections that have already been made on the basis of the leaks of some of its aspects.

Bringing Back ‘Archaic And Gruesome Weapons,’ Trump Reverses US Restrictions On Landmines

February 3, 2020 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org , , ,
"In case you didn't know, because they're from one of the most draconian chapters of 20th century, the victims of landmines are mostly innocent civilians and especially children," said immigration attorney Curtis Morrison. The decision, which Common Dreams reported about on Thursday, reverses a 2014 order by former President Barack Obama that constrained the weapons' use to the Korean Peninsula and committed the U.S. to no further production of the mines.

Trump’s Plan Legitimizes Apartheid. Our Task Is Equal Rights For All.

February 3, 2020 Jeff Halper, Mondoweiss.net , , ,
The Trump “Deal of the Century” is nothing if not predictable. The product of a small group of Orthodox Jewish Americans willingly adopting the long-standing plans of the Israeli right, it merely reaffirms what Israeli policy has in fact done “on the ground” over the past 53 years. In fact, we in the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) made a map 15 years ago that corresponds closely to Trump’s map.

Trump’s ‘Deal Of The Century’ Is So Absurd And Banal, It’s Impossible To Take It Seriously

February 1, 2020 Robert Fisk, Independent.co.uk , ,
When the two old political fraudsters emerged at the White House this week with the most deranged, farcical tragi-comedy in Middle East history, it was difficult to know whether to laugh or cry. The 80-page “peace” plan from the White House contained 56 references to “Vision” in its first 60 pages – and yes, with a capital V on each occasion to suggest...

A Vision For Palestinian Statehood That Is Not Trump’s

January 31, 2020 Haidar Eid, Aljazeera.com , ,
We need to move away from the idea of a two-state solution and embrace the vision of one secular, democratic state. It has been almost 15 years since the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement was launched by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The aim of the campaign is to force Israel and its supporters to recognise that the status quo in Palestinian lands and Israel is not tenable in the long term and that there can be no solution without respect for international law...

Palestinians Around The World Reject Trump’s ‘Fraud Of The Century’

January 31, 2020 Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss.net ,
Palestinians have responded to US President Donald Trump’s peace plan with a resounding “no,” expressing their frustrations with what they have dubbed as the “fraud of the century.” From social media to the streets, Palestinians in the occupied territory and in the diaspora have rejected Trump’s vision for the region, criticizing the plan for granting unilateral concessions to Israel and further depleting the size of a future Palestinian state.

Now Three Years Into The Reign Of Trump, What’s Left? Class Trumps Partisan Differences

January 29, 2020 Roger D. Harris, Transcend.org ,
22 Jan 2020 – On January 20, Donald G. Trump completed his third year in office. My one blog that received five-digit Facebook shares predicted Trump would lose in 2016. I was spectacularly wrong but not alone. Even the Las Vegas bookies thought Clinton was a shoo-in with her unbeatable two-punch knockout of (1) I’m not Trump and (2) World War III with the Russians would be peachy at least until the bombs start falling. What could possibly have gone wrong?

An Epic Act Of Resistance And Trial Of Our Times

January 26, 2020 Lauren Smith, Telesur English. , , ,
The U.S. government’s accusation against of the four members of the Embassy Protectors Collective is merely a pretext used for their arrest and prosecution, since they haven’t broken any laws.  On Feb. 11, four American peace activists, known as the Embassy Protectors Collective, will be tried before the U.S. empire for “interfering with certain protective functions” of its Federal government for their occupation of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. to prevent it from being handed over to coup leaders sponsored by the Trump administration. Their occupation ended on May 16, 2019, when federal agents broke into the sealed embassy, against international law, and arrested them in a swat style raid. The government’s accusation against them is merely a pretext used for their arrest and prosecution since they haven’t broken any laws.

Cuban President Says Concessions To US Would Lead Nowhere

January 23, 2020 Andrea Rodriguez, Apnews.com , , ,
LAS TUNAS, Cuba (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said he does not believe the Trump administration would drop sanctions on the island in exchange for concessions from his government. The Trump administration says it has been tightening sanctions on Cuba in recent months in order to starve the island’s communist government of cash and energy supplies and force it to end support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Trump And The Peak Of Barbarism

January 17, 2020 Atilio A. Boron, Atilio Boron’s blog, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau ,
I just read a very interesting note by writer Peter Koenig about the renaissance and exasperation of barbarism in recent times, and I say exasperation because it has been a constant presence in history, but under capitalism, it took on new and more brutal forms. The United States is undoubtedly the homeland of barbarism. Its status as the biggest terrorist on the planet was reached in August 1945 when it dropped atomic bombs on two defenseless cities in Japan, turning several hundred thousand of their inhabitants into ashes -or condemning them to a horrific slow death-.

Trump Prosecutors Make Move To Ensure That Embassy Protectors Are Convicted

January 16, 2020 Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad, Defendembassyprotectors.org , ,
As the trial approaches, the lawyers for the Trump Administration’s  prosecution of the four Venezuelan Embassy Protectors who were arrested last May are asking the court to make sure the jury is kept ignorant about the facts and circumstances surrounding the actions of the protectors. In a recently filed motion by government lawyers, state prosecutors are seeking to severely restrict what can be discussed during the trial  scheduled for February 11, 2020. Judge Beryl Howell will hear arguments on the motion at the pre-trial hearing on January 29.

The Useless War Powers Act

January 11, 2020 By Harry Blain, Fpif.org , ,
By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop funding wars. Practically speaking, the Trump administration’s extrajudicial assassination of a top Iranian general was probably legal. The rationale is straightforward: Congress has steadily settled on a constitutionally dubious theory of handing the president near-limitless authority over how, when, and why the country goes to war. The 1973 War Powers Resolution, the often-cited check on this extraordinary authority, is central to the mess.

The Financial Nuclear Option Will Settle Trump’s War With Iran

January 9, 2020 By Pepe Escobar, Asiatimes.com , , ,
On foreign soil, as a guest nation, US has assassinated a diplomatic envoy whose mission the US had requested. The bombshell facts were delivered by caretaker Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, during an extraordinary, historic parliamentary session in Baghdad on Sunday. Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani had flown into Baghdad on a normal carrier flight, carrying a diplomatic passport. He had been sent by Tehran to deliver, in person, a reply to a message from Riyadh on de-escalation across the Middle East. Those negotiations had been requested by the Trump administration.

Trump’s Deja Vu Wartime Playbook

January 9, 2020 Staff, Jackrasmus.com , ,
In 1964 there was the infamous ‘Tonkin Gulf’ incident that provided then president Johnson the cover to escalate US involvement in Vietnam. Later Pentagon documents made public revealed the alleged attacks on US ships off Vietnam by North Vietnamese patrol boats was a total fabrication. 58,000 US and 2 million Vietnamese deaths later, the evidence came out that it was all a hoax.

Killing Soleimani Reflects US Desperation In The Middle East

January 8, 2020 Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, Ramzybaroud.net , ,
By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically and legally embattled – the former has just been impeached and the latter is dogged by an Attorney General indictment and investigation into major corruption cases. Despairing, out of options and united by a common cause, both leaders were on the lookout for a major disruption...
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