This past week has been hell, as Israelis – mostly English-speaking immigrants – who were abroad for family and business reasons have been stuck there, unable to return to Israel. I have been bombarded with requests for help, and, along with MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, have spent most of my time trying to help – usually […]
Archive for January, 2021
Leader visits Imam Khomeini shrine as Islamic Revolution marking 42nd anniversary
TEHRAN – Concurrent with the start of “the 10-Day Dawn” and on the eve of the 42nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visited the shrine of Imam Khomeini and the martyrs’ cemetery on Sunday. The 10-Day Dawn starts from Bahman 12 to Bahman 22, which this year […]
Tension grows in Austria over the deportation of three young girls to Georgia and Armenia
Tensions are growing in Austria over the deportation of three girls to Georgia and Armenia, including a 12-year-old girl who was born in the country. The government is being criticised for expelling the children, who are considered to be “well-integrated” into Austrian society, especially amid the coronavirus crisis. Tina, 12, who was born in Austria […]
Israel admits: The richer you are, the more likely you’ll open a startup
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Hundreds of protesters descend on Romania’s health ministry after deadly fire engulfs Covid hospital
Hundreds of protesters descended on Romania’s health ministry in the wake of a deadly fire at one of the country’s major hospitals for Covid patients which claimed at least five lives. Demonstrators demanded Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, the health minister and the head of emergencies step down. The inferno erupted early on Friday on the […]
Wider Meanings of Indian Farmers Movements to Reclaim the Republic and Beyond
In the darkness of nights, the Hindutva fascists and their trained henchmen are trying to attack farmer’s protests and provoke violence with the help of police. The objective of the BJP government is to discredit the peaceful and democratic movements of the Indian farmers. All slanderous campaign by the ruling classes against farmers movements have […]
Defense minister visits IDF’s long-range attack HQ in veiled threat to Tehran
Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited the Israel Defense Forces unit tasked with conducting operations far beyond the country’s borders on Sunday, reviewing operational plans, his office said, in an apparent threat to Iran. Gantz, who created the Depths Corps in 2012 when he was chief of IDF staff, met with the unit’s commander, Maj. Gen. […]
Ethiopia says Tigray back to normal after conflict but witnesses disagree
Ethiopia‘s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has “returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe terrified Tigray residents hiding in bullet-marked homes and a vast rural area where effects of the fighting and food shortages are yet unknown. The conflict that began in November between Ethiopian forces and those […]
Rep. Greene claims Trump supports her, Democrat to move offices after being ‘berated’
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Watch live: Navalny protesters in Moscow rally in support of Russian opposition leader
Watching now | News Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Russian capital Moscow, and across the country, to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up the wave of nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. Source
WHO’s Covid-19 fact-finding mission visits ill-fated animal market in Wuhan
A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited a seafood and live animal market in Wuhan which was linked to the first detected clusters of the disease. The team visited the now-shuttered Huanan Seafood Market on Sunday. The sprawling market has seen its security […]
Democrats Will Get “Big, Bold Change – No Matter What” Says Chuck Schumer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats must tackle issues like “improving our democracy. Making D.C. a state, automatic voter registration” and that failure is not an option. On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” Schumer also vowed that Democrats will get “big, bold change… no matter what.” Breitbart reports: He also commented on the […]
Mets owner Steve Cohen leaves Twitter after threats
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What Wall Street fears
January 30, 2021 By The Ister for the Saker Blog The origin of modern banking can be found in the early days of the gold trade. In the Middle Ages, goldsmiths accepted deposits of gold in return for paper notes, which could be exchanged for the deposits at a later date. Because these paper notes […]
Students arrested in Turkey over Mecca poster with LGBT flags
Their arrest late 30 January came after top Turkish officials slammed the poster, displayed at an exhibition in Turkey‘s most prestigious Bogazici University. For weeks, students and faculty have been protesting the Turkish president‘s appointment of a new rector with links to his ruling party and clashes have broken out with police. Read more Interior […]
Tim Anderson: US and Israeli involvement in the war on Yemen
Posted on January 31, 2021 by martyrashrakat [embedded content] Share this: Like this: Like Loading… Related Filed under: China, Russia, UAE, USA, Yemen | Tagged: Abraham Project, Axis of Resistance, Bab al – Mandab, Hudaydah, KSA, New middle East, Saudi-led war on Yemen, Siege on Yemen, Zionist entity |
India’s PM Modi breaks silence on months-long farmer protests
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday protesters that stormed New Delhi‘s Red Fort had caused “insult” to the country, his first public comments on a months-long farmers’ agitation that turned violent this week. Tens of thousands of farmers have camped on the outskirts of the capital for more than two months, protesting new […]
Grammy-nominated Scottish artist, Sophie, dies after fall from Athens balcony
Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish DJ, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital, Athens. She was 34. In a statement, UK label Transgressive said the musician, whose full name was Sophie Xeon, died in the early hours of Saturday […]
‘Netanyahu plays a dirty game,’ says challenger Sa’ar, ‘but he doesn’t scare me’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “systematically” besmirches anybody who dares to challenge him, whether within the governing Likud party or outside it, Gideon Sa’ar, his main rival in the March elections, has charged. In an extensive interview with The Times of Israel, Sa’ar said Netanyahu and his supporters have attempted to harm him and his family, […]
Foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond May deadline, NATO sources
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Netanyahu, Clinton, Clooney celebrated Elie Wiesel’s wife 90th birthday
As the world commemorated International Holocaust Memorial Day last Wednesday on the 76th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, Marion Wiesel – wife of the late Nobel Prize winner and former Auschwitz prisoner Elie Wiesel – celebrated her 90th birthday. To honor her living legacy and visionary work alongside her husband’s, a virtual event was organized by the […]
Thousands attend funeral for ultra-Orthodox rabbi killed by virus
In violation of the national lockdown regulations aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, thousands of people were attending a funeral procession Sunday for a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi who died overnight after battling COVID-19 for several months. Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the head of the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem and scion of the Soloveitchik […]
WHO investigators visit Wuhan live animal market in COVID-19 origins probe
A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday visited the seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was linked to many early infections. The team members visited the Huanan Seafood Market for about an hour in the afternoon, and one of them flashed a thumbs-up sign […]
‘Putin palace’ is mine, says Russian billionaire Arkady Rotenberg
Arkady Rotenberg, a billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin, said on Saturday that he became the “beneficiary” of the opulent mansion “a few years ago”. The property hit the headlines earlier this month following a video report by Mr Navalny, Russia‘s most prominent opposition leader. Mr Navalny and his team allege the mansion, which […]
Thousands rally in Russia to demand Alexei Navalny’s release
Thousands of people took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny keeping up the wave of nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. Hundreds were detained by police. The authorities mounted a massive effort to stem the tide of demonstrations after tens of thousands of people […]
A fake carrot to Iran
Source January 30, 2021 – 20:58 TEHRAN – Joe Biden’s selection of Rob Malley as Iran envoy has sparked bitter dispute between hawks and progressives. They have launched media campaigns defending or opposing his selection. Hawks accuse him of going soft on Iran while progressives underline that the appointment of Malley will rekindle diplomacy with […]
Economy, coronavirus most important issues for Americans in 2021
The economy and the coronavirus pandemic are at the top of the American public’s priority of issues to deal with in the coming year, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. The economy was the subject most Americans thought US President Joe Biden should deal with – with 80% saying it was the […]
Former justice minister, Tel Aviv mayor ally Nissenkorn says will not run in Israeli election
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When the Revolution Council in Homs Governorate participates in the Tripoli fires عندما يشارك مجلس الثورة في محافظة حمص في حرائق طرابلس!
**Machine translation Please scroll down for the Arabic original ** Paris Nidal Hamada Lebanese security forces have released two leaders of takfirist fighting groups who entered Lebanon under the cover of a journalist and were arrested in Tripoli during demonstrations Thursday night and Friday. It is not known how these fighters in the Al-Faruq Brigade in Qusayr and in the neighbourhoods of Homs […]