The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim when intervening in another country. Things become particularly absurd when the individual or government pleading for such help to an outside force is struggling to survive yet making grand statements about […]
Posts Tagged ‘backing’
Left-wing Midwest media outlet launching with backing from Dem donor
Last month, Courier Newsroom, a local news group with a progressive slant, relaunched under a new media company, Good Information Inc., backed by Democratic megadonors Reid Hoffman and George Soros. The Pod Save America hosts, all Obama administration alums, built a podcasting empire during the Trump era, and Crooked Media now employs 70 people. Conservative […]
MEP leaves League over its backing for mandatory COVID health passes
An Italian MEP has left the far-right League party over its decision to back so-called “green” COVID health passes. Francesca Donato, who was elected to the European Parliament in 2019, announced her departure on Tuesday. The Eurosceptic MEP has long been opposed to obligatory vaccinations and has regularly criticised the COVID-19 restrictions enforced by Italy’s […]
Actions Demand NY Close Groups Backing Settler Genocide In Palestine
Above Photo: Marching through Brooklyn. (Jehad Dawoud) The whole world recoiled at the May media footage of racist Israeli settlers threatening to kill and beating up Palestinian people in order to steal their homes in the Sheik Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. The press, however, did not point out many of these arch-racist […]
Biden has ‘bloody hands’ for backing Israel, Erdogan says
Broken clocks are right twice a day… ahval reports: Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday condemned his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden for his approval of weapons sales to Israel while vowing Turkey’s continued support of Palestinians during the latest bout of conflict between the sides. “Today we have witnessed Biden’s approval of weapons (sales) to […]
AIPAC Applauds Lawmakers for Backing Full US Aid to Israel, Without Conditions
(JNS) AIPAC applauded the overwhelming majority of members of the House of Representatives on Thursday who signed a letter urging U.S. aid to Israel to be fully funded in the federal budget without condition, contradicting a handful of prominent Democratic Party lawmakers who spoke at a virtual national conference of the left-wing, pro-Israel group J […]
IBM, Who Once Powered Holocaust Computational Machines, is Now Backing VACCINE Tracking and Food Allowance
In the late 1930s and early 40s, IBM (International Business Machines) began partnering with the Third Reich to provide computational machines for tracking Jews for extermination. This is fully detailed in the book, “IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black, available at Amazon and elsewhere. Now, as published by Mint Press News, IBM is partnering […]
Biden backing away from level of support for Saudis: academic
TEHRAN – An American academic describes the Biden administration’s decision to decrease U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen as an important step. “They are backing away from the level of support they’ve shown for Saudi Arabia over the last years. The Biden administration’s decision to withdraw their support from Saudi Arabia’s […]
UK funding backing hate-filled material taught in Palestinian classrooms
British taxpayers are continuing to pay for a Palestinian education system in which school pupils are routinely taught incitement, hatred of Israel and glorification of terrorism. Many of the textbooks are written by vetted officials, whose salaries are paid by the UK. Despite numerous assurances from the Palestinian education minister, detailed reports from the Israel-based […]
Fact Check: Democrats Launch Ads Falsely Accusing Republicans of Backing QAnon
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) falsely attacked several House Republicans in a series of ads launched Tuesday, claiming that the House GOP members backed the QAnon conspiracy theory. The DCCC, the campaign arm of the House Democrats, launched a half-million-dollar television and digital ad campaign accusing Republicans of “standing with Q and now with […]
Backing Netanyahu on Iran, Israel’s military chief strikes defiant tone against Biden
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Biden Breaks ‘Unity’ Pledge by Backing Trump Impeachment
President Biden abandoned his pledge to seek “unity,” declaring Monday that the impeachment trial of Donald Trump “has to happen.” Biden had previously hinted that he might oppose the trial in favor of bringing unity to the country. But on Monday, as House impeachment managers delivered the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Biden enthusiastically […]
EU drops backing for Guaido as Venezuela interim president, Biden renews US support
The EU’s 27 states have said they no longer recognize Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela, despite a call by the European Parliament just days ago for the bloc’s governments not to downgrade his status. After meeting in Brussels on Monday, the European Council said in a statement it “deeply regretted” that Venezuela’s […]
Trump-backing California legislator ousted as GOP caucus leader
Shannon Grove speaks with Sen. Scott Wilk during the state Senate session in Sacramento, Calif. | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo California Senate Republicans have chosen state Sen. Scott Wilk to lead their caucus, ousting incumbent state Sen. Shannon Grove, according to multiple Capitol sources. In trading Grove for Wilk, Republicans are opting for a more moderate […]
SF federation monitor after sending funds to group backing Capitol siege
Any group that helped fund or organize an insurrection would be disqualified from receiving funds from the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, the group said — a reflection of the startling new political landscape after deadly rioting last week in Washington, D.C. “We have no intention of funding extremist groups anywhere on the political spectrum, […]
GOP Rep. Peter Meijer Considering Backing Trump Impeachment
Freshman Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) on Monday called on President Donald Trump to resign and said he is considering supporting a second impeachment of the president in the wake of last week’s siege on the U.S. Capitol. Source Views: 0
The Jews now dumping Trump won’t ever apologize for backing him
There were Jews who joined the pro-Trump assault on the Capitol, arm-in-arm with open antisemites. But while most Jewish Trump voters won’t mourn his exit, they don’t regret backing him either Views: 0
Mary Trump says all lawmakers backing Trump should be expelled
Mary L Trump, who gave insights on her uncle’s upbringing in her book Too Much and Never Enough, called Mr Trump supporters “seditionist” for encouraging the president in his election coup. “Every seditionist House member who supported and encouraged this attempted coup needs to be expelled,” said Mary Trump, who is also a psychologist. The […]
US Adds Bahrain-Based Group to Terror Blacklist, Accuses It of Iran Backing
Bahraini Shi’ites sit in front of a market, mourning as they listen to a sermon, during commemoration of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi’ite Muslim calendar, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in Manama, Bahrain, Aug. 29, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Hamad I Mohammed. The United States on Tuesday designated the Bahrain-based Saraya al-Mukhtar group […]
Russia says U.S. backing for Moroccan claim on Western Sahara breaches international law
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