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Israel’s Far Right Blame « Leftist » Victims of Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre

As Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett sets out to Pittsburgh, prominent members of the governing Likud Party have blamed the Jewish victims of the neo-Nazi massacre “for causing anti-Semitism.”

Max Blumenthal
Par Max Blumenthal
Shooting Synagogue

Grayzone -- Israeli Minister of Education Naftali Bennett has embarked on a visit to Pittsburgh “to be with our sisters and brothers in their darkest hour,” he said, after an avowed anti-Semite massacred eleven Jewish worshippers at the city’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Robert Bowers, the right-wing terrorist, targeted the progressive congregation

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The Common Thread That Unites Brazil and Global Resurgence of the Radical Right

If Bolsonaro can impose austerity while maintaining an unjust peace, Wall Street and the IMF will smile and ask for more.

Rob Urie
Par Rob Urie

With Jair Bolsonaro’s electoral victory in Sunday’s runoff election for president of Brazil, a global resurgence of the radical right is indisputable. Mr. Bolsonaro is a particularly ugly representative of this movement, both politically repressive and culturally intolerant. The question being asked in the bourgeois press is: what psychological

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Saudi Arabia Kills Civilians in Yemen with Another US-Made Raytheon Bomb

Saudi Arabia attacked Yemenis in Hodeida with a laser-guided bomb made by US military contractor Raytheon, as a civilian is killed every three hours on average.

Ben Norton
Par Ben Norton
Saudi Arabia Raytheon Yemen

GrayZone Project - A bomb used by Saudi Arabia to attack civilians in Yemen has been identified as a US-made laser-guided bomb manufactured by military contractor Raytheon. The deaths — the latest in a long pattern of Saudi bombings of Yemeni civilians with US-made weapons — came amid reports that fighting kills one Yemeni civilian every three

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Billionaires Made More Money in 2017 Than Any Other Year in History

« The past 30 years have seen far greater wealth creation than the Gilded Age, » the UBS annual billionaires report says.

Jake Johnson
Par Jake Johnson
Protesters Richard Hanzel, left, Brendan Hutt, and Richard Shavzin, right, of the Screen Actors Guild, dressed as wall street bankers, march from Goldman Sachs' office to a rally in Federal Plaza demanding Wall Street reform, Wednesday, April 28, 2010, in Chicago.

During a year in which so much of the world faced deep poverty, the corrosive effects of austerity, and extreme weather caused by the worsening human-caused climate crisis — from devastating hurricanes to deadly wildfires and floods — one class of individuals raked in more money in 2017 than any other year in recorded history: the world’s

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Why the Khashoggi Affair Maybe the Biggest US Foreign Policy Crises Since Iran’s Revolution

By flooding Saudi Arabia with oil revenue and high-tech armaments and allowing it to attack whomever it pleases, the U.S. has contributed to an increasingly dangerous build-up of highly combustible forces.

Daniel Lazare
Par Daniel Lazare
Mohammed bin Salman | Steven Mnuchin

If Donald Trump seems at a loss about how to respond to the Jamal Khashoggi murder, it may not be because he’s worried about his Saudi business investments or any of the other things that Democrats like to bring up to avoid talking about more serious topics. Rather, it’s likely because Trump may be facing one of the biggest U.S. foreign-policy

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Israel is Lobbying Europe to Declare BDS “Fundamentally Anti-Semitic”

Israel wants all European political parties to pass a binding resolution rejecting BDS activities as fundamentally anti-Semitic.”

Middle East Monitor
Par Middle East Monitor
Ze’ev Elkin BDS

In its ongoing battle against the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign Israel is pushing for European political parties to declare the movement “fundamentally anti-Semitic.” The latest drive saw Israel’s Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Ze’ev Elkin, attending a conference in Brussels backed by the Israeli government which

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