Daily Archives: 10. Juli 2019
While other candidates are courting huge donors, @BernieSanders is on the frontlines of the fight against corporations and billionaires that are waging a vicious war on workers. Watch this new ad about how that battle is playing out in Iowa:
Israeli Arab Parties Irking Their Voters by Slowing Up Formation of Latest Joint Ticket
The dispute is over how to divide spots 11 through 14 on the joint ticket, the same problem that scotched the four-party framework in the election this past April.
Jurist Raif Zreik, who is holding talks with the parties, has warned in recent days about a massive hemorrhaging of the Arab community’s confidence in the parties.
Syrizas Wahlniederlage: Bilanz eines politischen Verrats
In den pseudolinken Publikationen – dem spanischen Cuarto Poder, dem britischen Socialist Worker und dem amerikanischen Jacobin-Magazin – herrscht ohrenbetäubendes Schweigen über die Gründe für diese Niederlage. Doch sie war das vorhersehbare Ergebnis von Syrizas üblem Verrat an ihren Wahlversprechen. Seit ihrem Amtsantritt im Januar 2015 hat sie jedes Sparprogramm, jeden Bankenrettungsplan und jede Sozialkürzung, die von der EU gefordert wurden, sklavisch unterschrieben.
Wonderful article on @HuffPostUK by my colleague Brendan. We have deserted our Leave voters & traditional working-class supporters. ‚Deserted‘ is the right word.
Backing A Second Referendum Could Finish Labour At The Ballot Box
On the biggest issue in British politics, Labour promised one thing before the election and then did the complete opposite afterwards. The last party that performed such an outrageous U-turn was the Liberal Democrats over tuition fees, and they were rightly destroyed in the following election.
Labour is now possibly facing that same oblivion.
As of this morning, just under five million Labour Leave voters are homeless. I’m sure The Brexit Party will be delighted.
The EU’s scurrilous anti-democratic dealings prove once again that it is beyond reform
(05.07.2019)
There has been plenty of earnest talk since the financial crisis about reform and facing up to the challenge from the populist and authoritarian right. The appointments have shown that most of it was hot air
Why the Labour party deserves to be destroyed
Already Labour are below 20 per cent in some general election polls and it is hard to see how they will survive a four-way squeeze in any snap election.
The only thing that might avoid this doomsday scenario is if the Tories manage to take the UK out of the EU by 31st October. Given that the dreadful withdrawal agreement is now dead in the water, that means, somewhat ironically, only a ‘no deal’ Brexit can save Labour.
European Commission president-in-waiting warns Britain over ‚tone and attitude‘ of Brexit
Ursula von der Leyen, the woman nominated as the new president of the European Commission, has warned the next prime minister of Britain over the “tone and attitude” of Brexit.
Brexit: Furious Tory insider accuses Theresa May of letting parliament lay ‘elephant traps’ for Boris Johnson
(09.07.2019)
Speaking to The Independent on condition of anonymity, the government insider said there was frustration in Conservative ranks that Downing Street was allowing opponents of Brexit opportunities to tie the future prime minister’s hands.
Johnson under fire as Kim Darroch quits as UK ambassador to US
After the ambassador submitted his resignation, explaining that he felt that speculation over his future was “making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like”, Johnson faced sharp criticism over his role in the affair, with one minister accusing him of throwing the ambassador “under the bus”.
And in language that will be viewed as an implicit criticism of Johnson’s failure to back Darroch, Theresa May told MPs: “I hope the house will reflect on the importance of defending our values and principles, particularly when they are under pressure.”
Public Split on Kim Darroch Resignation
YouGov have conducted some remarkably speedy polling of the public’s attitude towards the Kim Darroch affair, although the fieldwork was conducted before his resignation.
UK could join US military action against Iran, Jeremy Hunt says
(24.06.2019)
Mr Hunt, who is battling to become the next prime minister, earlier said he has been speaking to counterparts “regularly” about the Iran crisis which he called “extremely serious”.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that he was seeking to build a “global coalition” against Iran, branding Tehran “the world’s largest state sponsor of terror”.
Deeply saddened to hear of the resignation of Sir Kim Darroch. Standing up for Britain means standing up for the finest diplomats on the world. It should never have come to this.
Trump hits back after UK’s top envoy calls his Iran policy ‘incoherent’
He allegedly said the president’s assertion that he called off retaliatory missile strikes against the Iranian regime after a US drone was shot down because it risked killing 150 Iranians, “doesn’t stand up.”
“It’s more likely that he was never fully on board and that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 campaign promises would look come 2020,” Darroch reportedly stated, referring to the next presidential election.
Sir Kim Darroch: UK ambassador to US resigns in Trump leaks row
The US president had branded him „a very stupid guy“ after emails emerged where the ambassador had called his administration „clumsy and inept“.
In a letter to the Foreign Office, Sir Kim said he wanted to end speculation about his position: „The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.
Sicherung der Straße von Hormus:USA feilen an Marine-Allianz gegen Iran – n-tv NACHRICHTEN
Holy War? Pompeo Preaches to Pro-Israel Christian Confab
The Secretary of State took his case against Iran to the Evangelical faithful, making it a matter of religious life, or death.
Iran deal was ‘the worst diplomatic debacle in American history’ — John Bolton to CUFI
„Last June, we announced our withdrawal from the hypocritical Human Rights Council, which shielded the world’s worst human rights violators while devoting most of its time to condemning Israel; a thriving democracy. (Applause) We are also reevaluating U.N. peace-keeping missions, including those involving Israel to ensure support for effective, accountable, and efficient operations. We will not allow bureaucratic inertia to keep the United States in international organizations or agreements that undermine U.S. interests and values. (Applause)
For these reasons, in September of last year I announced that the United States would not fund, support, or cooperate with the International Criminal Court, or ICC (Applause). The ICC, which asserts near-universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country without their consent. As I said then, the ICC is flawed to its core and we will let it die on its own.“ Applause)
Trump sending top officials to speak to pro-Israel evangelicals conference
Pence, Pompeo, Bolton as well as ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, the top U.S. Middle East negotiator, will speak Monday and Tuesday at the conference taking place in Washington D.C. Such a broad array of top senior foreign policy and security officials is rare for pro-Israel groups.
Activist Assault in Tel Aviv Should Serve as Wake-up Call for Israel‘s Ordinary People
But yes, it is newsworthy, because we must continue believing that other ordinary people are reading what we write, people who are not yet speaking out. Maybe something about the gradual nature of the violence rings a bell with them: First they came for the socialists, then they came for the Jews, but we weren’t those things, so we remained silent. Then came the turn for the others, and we continued to be silent. And when thugs attacked us, there was no one left to protect us.
Israeli Left-wing Activist Assaulted in Tel Aviv
On Sunday, he said, he left work and noticed he was being followed. „I assumed they were police who had come to arrest me,“ said Pollak, who is also active in the organization Anarchists against the Wall. „I went into a place where I could avoid them but they got to me and pushed me to the floor,“ he says. He took some blows but after scratching his face with the knife, he says, they seemed to get spooked and fled.
Pollak did not complain to the police because „that is the last entity in the world I would turn to for protection. That‘s simply not its job.“
Israeli education minister calls intermarriage rate of U.S. Jews „second Holocaust“
Israel‘s newly appointed Minister of Education Rafi Peretz said at a Cabinet meeting on July 1 that the rate of intermarriage among U.S. Jews is „like a second Holocaust,“ according to 3 people who were in the room.
Why it matters: Peretz, a former chief rabbi of the Israeli army, is the leader of a bloc of ultra right-wing religious parties. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally involved in forming this political bloc, which also includes the Jewish supremacist „Jewish Power“ party.
West Side Story – America
Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexually abusing teenage girls, surrounded himself with influential network of defenders
He was a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Many influential people liked to be around Epstein. He was smart, curious, fun.
.@GibraltarGov has confirmed that the Grace 1 supertanker, detained in #Gibraltar last week, was found to be „loaded to capacity with crude oil“. It‘s also highlighted that the tanker was „well inside“ British Gibraltar Territorial Waters when boarded, as per this screenshot.
Laboratory tests confirm Grace 1 was carrying crude oil
„The Grace 1 was detained last week in Gibraltar when it freely navigated into British Gibraltar territorial waters to a point two miles off the Eastside of Gibraltar, having previously exited the international waters of the Straits of Gibraltar, on a pre-arranged call for provisions and spare parts,“ the Gibraltar Government spokesman said.
The ship was „well inside BGTW“ when it was boarded and remains detained in that area, the spokesman added.
To illustrate that point, the Gibraltar Government issued a screen grab from the Port of Gibraltar‘s vessel traffic monitoring system taken on the night of detention.
Gibraltar court extends detention of Iranian tanker for 14 days: Attorney general
(05.07.2019)
Spain, which challenges the British ownership of Gibraltar, has said the seizure was prompted by a US request to Britain and appeared to have taken place in Spanish waters.
Iran fordert Freigabe des in Gibraltar festgesetzten Tankers
(09.07.2019)
Die EU stellt seit 2011 Öllieferungen an Syrien unter Strafe. Das Öl in dem Schiff soll aus dem Iran stammen, was wiederum die US-Sanktionen gegen die Islamische Republik verletzen würde. Am Freitag entschied das oberste Gericht der britischen Exklave Gibraltar, dass der Tanker zwei Wochen festgehalten werden solle.
U.S. wants military coalition to safeguard waters off Iran, Yemen
„We‘re engaging now with a number of countries to see if we can put together a coalition that would ensure freedom of navigation both in the Straits of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab,“ said Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Freedom of piracy: US seeks allies to outsource hunt for Iranian oil tankers
Washington has a new tactic in its ongoing campaign against Tehran: outsource the naval blockade of Iran and have allies seize oil tankers in international waterways – all in the name of “freedom of navigation,” of course.
USA planen Koalition gegen den Iran
Das Pentagon habe einen Plan entwickelt, um mögliche Bedrohungen im Persischen Golf, an der Arabischen Halbinsel und am Horn von Afrika festzustellen, sagte der Vorsitzende des Vereinigten Generalstabs, Joseph Dunford, auf dem Militärposten Fort Myer im Bundesstaat Virginia.
Er glaube, innerhalb einiger Wochen werde klar sein, welche Länder sich der Koalition anschließen wollten.
GSG9 jetzt auch in Berlin stationiert
Der Verband soll deutlich aufgestockt werden – um etwa ein Drittel. In Sicherheitskreisen wird die Größe des Eliteverbandes mit etwa 400 Mann beziffert – das heißt, dass die GSG9 um zirka 130 Mann wachsen soll. Dabei soll eine von insgesamt vier Einheiten des Verbandes dauerhaft in Berlin stationiert sein.
Lebensgefahr durch Polizei-Taser – Innenminister unter Druck
Zunahme von Todesfällen nach Tasereinsätzen durch Polizei. Erste offizielle Bestätigung einer Landesregierung
Inching away from Saudi-UAE axis, Jordan restores ties with Qatar
Jordan and Qatar announced the restoration of full diplomatic ties by naming their respective ambassadors, two years after Amman downgraded its relations with Doha due to pressure from a Saudi-led block.
In June 2017, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Qatar siding with the regional axis of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, which imposed a land, sea, and air blockade of the gas-rich state.
Earlier this week, Qatar named Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al Thani, a member of the royal family, as its ambassador to Jordan, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.
A Major Conventional War Against Iran Is an Impossibility. Crisis within the US Command Structure
And US Central Command’s Forward headquarters is still located in Qatar despite the fact that two years earlier on May 23, 2017, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was accused by Saudi Arabia and the UAE of collaborating with Iran. It is unclear who gave the order to impose the embargo on Qatar. Saudi Arabia would not have taken that decision without consulting Washington. Visibly, Washington’s intent was to create an Arab NATO Alliance (An Arab Block) directed against Iran “to do the dirty work for us”.
US, Qatar ink sweeping business deals
Chevron-Phillips agreed with Qatar Petroleum to jointly develop and operate a petrochemical complex in Qatar, according to a joint statement provided by the White House that outlined the deals.
The Qatari Defense Ministry additionally committed to purchasing Raytheon‘s medium-to-long range NASAM and long-range Patriot Systems surface-to-air missile systems…
„Secretary Esper thanked the Emir for the Qatari offer to improve Al-Udeid Air Base and for hosting U.S. forces,“ spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement, referring to the sprawling air base the U.S. uses for its regional operations.
Trump: Qatar has agreed to buy Boeing planes
President Trump is meeting with the Emir of Qatar. Trump announced that Qatar has agreed to buy military equipment including a “large number” of commercial planes from Boeing.
President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Amir of the State of Qatar
09.07.2019
In blow to Mexican president, finance minister quits over economic ‚extremism‘
Mexico’s moderate Finance Minister Carlos Urzua resigned on Tuesday with a letter that shocked markets by citing “extremism” in economic policy, before President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador quickly named a well-regarded deputy minister to replace him.