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Total U.S. control of Middle East may be slipping

September 30, 2019 By Conn Hallinan

In spite of a $68 billion a year defense budget and infusions of U.S. weaponry, a handful of bargain-basement drones slipped through and devastated Saudi Arabia's oil economy.

Trump bans Raul Castro and his children from coming to U.S.

September 27, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The move may be largely for Trump’s political purposes— to bolster his re-election effort and distract from the impeachment inquiry engulfing his administration.

Boris Johnson faces outraged Parliament, accuses opposition parties of “betrayal”

September 26, 2019 By Al Neal

The prime minister branded opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn a peddler of “Communist rhetoric.”

For 28th consecutive year, Cuba prepares to indict U.S. blockade at United Nations

September 25, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The sequence of a Cuban report, a vote at the U.N., and a few news reports is repetitive enough to be dismissed as routine business. But there’s nothing commonplace about the U.S. blockade.

Egyptians caught between hopes for freedom and military government treachery

September 24, 2019 By Aboulfotouh Kandil

The fact that protesters in Egypt are now being allowed to carry on without arrests by police indicates we may be witnessing a “soft coup” within the military regime.