Democrats have named Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee… Menendez has opposed the Iran nuclear agreement, repeatedly attacked the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, supported unconditional military aid to governments that have used the weapons in the commission of war crimes… [FULL LINK]
Month: January 2021
New Zealand radio station (hosted by an American expat) on threats to American democracy from Trump and the far right.
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Western Sahara The Struggle for Self-Determination
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Nonviolent Activists Laid the Groundwork to Oppose a Coup. They May Have Saved the Republic
Yes! — Activists prepared for months, expecting Trump to steal the election. They were right, and he failed. [FULL LINK]
When a Ceasefire is Not Enough
Sojourners Magazine: The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan was an avoidable tragedy. The disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region has been populated since at least the second century B.C.E. by Armenians, one of the world’s oldest Christian civilizations. The Muslim Azeris and others have lived there and in neighboring areas for centuries as well, and the region was ethnically mixed (albeit majority Armenian) when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991…