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Congressional Black Caucus Betrays Its Constituents in Favor of Pro-Police Agenda

Three out of every four members of the Black Caucus in the U.S. House voted to make assaults on police officers a federal hate crime.

Glen Ford
Par Glen Ford

The bigger the Congressional Black Caucus gets, the more it betrays its constituents. Last Wednesday, three out of every four members of the Black Caucus in the U.S. House voted to make assaults on police officers a federal hate crime. The Protect and Serve Act of 2018 is totally superfluous, since cops are already the most protected “class” in the

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Hummus Wars: The Middle East’s Battle of the Palates

This is cultural genocide. It’s not Israeli food. It’s Arab (Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian). First, the Israelis take the land and ethnically cleanse it of Arabs. Now they take their food and culture and claim it’s theirs too! Shame,

– James Zogby

Dr. James M. Dorsey
Par Dr. James M. Dorsey
Lebanese chefs prepare hummus, during a bid to break a record previously held by Israel and reclaim ownership over the popular Middle Eastern dish, in Fanar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday May 8, 2010. Some 300 Lebanese chefs prepared the huge hummus plate weighing 22,046 pounds or 10,452 kilograms _ the size of Lebanon in square kilometers and doubled the record achieved by cooks in an Arab town near Jerusalem in January that weighed around four metric tons and broke a previous record held by Lebanon. A Guinness World Records adjudicator confirmed that Lebanon now holds the record. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed. Food is often emblematic of disputes over identity, history and political claims that underlie an arc of crisis wracked by ethnic and religious conflict; clamour for political, economic, social, national and minority rights; efforts by states and ethnic

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UN Warns 10 Million More Yemenis Expected to Starve to Death by End of Year

According to the UN, the number of Yemenis in danger of starving to death would rise from the current figure of 8.4 million to 18.4 million by this December. That’s three times the estimated death toll of Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb

SANA’A, YEMEN – During a briefing last Friday, the UN warned that millions more Yemeni civilians are expected to starve to death before year’s end as a result of a blockade imposed on the country by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition. The Saudis’ unsuccessful bid to quash the Houthi-led resistance movement against Western and Saudi imperialism in Yemen

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Ron Paul: World Has Grown Tired of Washington’s Threats

Secretary Pompeo raged at Iran. The mainstream news media raged at Iran. Trump raged at Iran. But then a strange thing happened: nothing.

Ron Paul
Par Ron Paul
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal airport, in Morristown, N.J. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just like Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia in July, 1914, that led to the beginning

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Shakira Cancels Tel Aviv Performance in Wake of Gaza Massacres

Shakira’s decision to postpone her appearance comes amid international backlash following Israel’s mass shooting of unarmed Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip, which led to over 100 deaths and 13,000 wounded after the Israeli military used live ammunition in an attempt to quell the demonstrations.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
Colombian singer Shakira, center, visits a school in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Shakira is attending the Presidential Conference, sponsored by Israeli President Shimon Peres and will take part in panel alongside comedian Sarah Silverman. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA – Despite earlier reports in the Israeli press that Latina pop sensation Shakira would resist activist pressure from the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement and perform in Tel Aviv all the same, Spanish language media is widely reporting that the Colombian-born singer has suspended her much-anticipated appearance in Israel.

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North Korea Sends Top Official To New York To Prepare For Summit

The two officials previously met in North Korea earlier this month before the North decided to release three American prisoners as a gesture of good faith.

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
North Korea supporters wave the Korean unification flag ahead of the pairs free skate figure skating final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Feb. 15, 2018. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

In the latest sign that the recently "canceled" US-North Korea summit - which as we and so many others speculated was merely a negotiating ploy by Trump - is now fully back on, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent one of his top aides to New York to meet with US officials in New York this week, Bloomberg reported. President Trump announced the

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