Politics

Russia and Europe could be heading towards a nuclear war as relations between East and West deteriorates.

Rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to boycott Donald Trump’s upcoming speech at the AIPAC conference in Washington on Monday. They accuse the Republican front runner of encouraging “bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and misogyny.” Press TV reports: Rabbis David Paskin and Jesse Olitzky have organized the “Come Together Against Hate” campaign to protest Trump’s speech.

Wikileaks have released an email from US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton detailing ways Israel could marginalize Iran by overthrowing Assad in Syria.  In the email, dated 11/30/2015, Hillary Clinton outlines to an undisclosed recipient how to deal with the “growing threat” of Iran’s nuclear program: “The best way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.” Full email transcript: UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No.

Since President Barack Obama’s historic Cuba visit on March 20, some are speculating about whether he can pressure Cuba to improve its human rights. A comparison of Cuba’s human rights record with that of the United States, however, shows that the America should be taking lessons from Cuba, says Marjorie Cohn. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains two different categories of human rights – civil and political rights on the one hand; and economic, social and cultural rights on the other.

Obama could have underscored the dangerous delusions of the neocons and liberal hawks in his 2 administrations, but why, instead, did he allow neocon/liberal-hawk disinformation to permeate the American political belief system without challenge? And what is it about Obama that precludes him form being transparent with the American public as originally promised? Perhaps Obama is an elitist, or wants the approval of the elitists because he protects the secrets even when transparency would better serve him and the public interest. For instance, even though he was told by U.S.