Skip to main content

Making Sense of U.S. Moves in the Middle East

Rebecca Gordon TomDispatch
There is a new ménage-à-quatre in the region, bringing Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United States ever closer. And...an unexpected fifth player lurking in the shadows: Russia.

Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Treaty Ends Decades of Border Conflict

V. Arun Kumar Dawn News
Ethiopia agreed to a border commission study that awarded most of the territory disputed by the two countries to Eritrea, ending a state of conflict that followed a 1998-2000 war that cost 80,000 lives and displaced more than 6 million people.

Trump’s Dirty Money

John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus
Russian money saved Trump when his projects were on the verge of collapse. Will it now be the cause of his political demise?

Media Bits and Bytes - July 24, 2018

Portside
Trump Boots Reporter; Tronc Stomps; Sinclair Slime; Facebook's Wrist Slap; Con Game; Too Late for Lopate?; Watching the Watchers

These Are the Corporations Behind Trump’s Muslim Ban

Saqib Bhatti and Molly Gott In These Times
The Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and LittleSis have released a report, Ban Them: Taking on the Corporations Behind the Muslim Ban, which looks at the companies that profit off anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant policies

Korea Reflections

Michael Leon Guerrero US Labor Against the War
group photo of union activists
Report on a May 2018 delegation of US trade unionists, Black Lives Matter, and other social movement activists to trade unions in Korea, sponsored by US Labor Against the War and the Korean Trade Union Confederation.