With the US support for Israel unwavering under the Trump administration, Israel may risk sparking a larger war in Syria knowing that the Americans will likely back them — no matter the cost.

The neoliberal approach to handling a dire economic downturn may soon produce a political crisis, reminiscent of the debt crisis that led to Hitler’s rise 80 years ago. The political class seems to be taking note: the stark inequality reflected in the soaring stock market and shrinking paychecks is unsustainable.

The US currently maintains the largest stockpile of both chemical and biological warfare agents of any nation on the planet, and continues to expand its biological weapons research and development on a scale far larger than any other country.

A group known as al-Ahvaziya claimed responsibility for the attack on a military parade in Khuzestan Province.

Perhaps China’s hospital ship currently moored in Venezuela is a direct message to Washington that invasion of the Latin American country is not a viable option.

“This proposal says work and family don’t matter—only money matters. And at a time when one-fourth of children in America have at least one immigrant parent, it’s a direct attack on children.”

With its government openly admitting Israel’s rogue-state status and its intention to act without regard to international norms or basic human decency, Israel has indicated that it is hell-bent on ethnically cleansing Palestine and eliminating the “demographic threat” once and for all.

Since coming to power last May, President Lenin Moreno – a handpicked successor of Correa – has fought to remove any trace of Correa’s influence from the ruling party the charismatic leftist once led.

The change in Saudi policy will now make it largely impossible for Palestinians living in the occupied territories or as temporary residents of Jordan to make the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages.

Josep Borrell, Spain’s foreign minister, addressed the EU at a conference of European Union leaders in Austria Tuesday pushing for the union to recognize independent Palestine.

The sanctions are related to China’s purchase of 10 SU-35 combat aircraft in 2017 and S-400 surface-to-air missile system-related equipment in 2018, the State Department said.

So much of mainstream journalism has descended to the level of a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission. Subjectivism is all; slogans and outrage are proof enough. What matters is “perception.”

A leaked classified memo which shows Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided to continue US military involvement in the Saudi war on Yemen in order to preserve a massive $2 billion weapons deal with Riyadh.

Amnesty urged the international community to “take concrete steps to stop the delivery and trade of arms and military equipment to Israel.”

Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the ORR, the Health and Human Services Secretary is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs.

In its 2017 report, the High Commission classified Syrian refugees in Lebanon as the poorest compared to their counterparts in other countries; 68 per cent of Syrians in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, defined as less than $2.87 a day.