By Neslihan Çevik The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), having declared itself a caliphate, is now making a call to all Muslims (especially engineers and doctors) to emigrate to their new home, “Sham,” the land of Ibrahim, with the caution that ones who remain outside will be drowned in apostasy and heresy. However, […]
Archives for November 2014
Ebola’s not the First Racial Germ Panic: The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating
By Dan Dinello The attempt by some GOP politicians to tie the ebola outbreak to immigration issues is nothing new in American or European history. Immigrants have often been despised, feared and stigmatized by the native-born as harbingers of disease or even death. Conflating disease carriers with foreigners and social outcasts is a practice that […]
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)
Bill Moyers: “Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral process but to democracy itself. Two weeks ago, Sanders visited a town hall meeting in Richmond, California, to fire up supporters of Mayor […]
Fierce Entanglements require Dialogue: Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in their different stories about the World
By Donald Ellis When I was in Israel for a year on a Fulbright conducting research I interviewed Israelis, Palestinians, and Israeli Arabs. I asked them to talk about their ideas with respect to peace. The Israelis invoked the language of security, the Israeli Arabs spoke of fairness, and the Palestinians of historical justice. Clearly, […]
US Dilemma in Syria: Moderate Stronghold Falls to al-Qaeda, Fighters desert to Extremists
By Juan Cole In a big setback for the Obama administration’s Syria policy, the al-Qaeda affiliate Succor Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) took the town of Deir Sunbul and its environs this weekend away from the Syria Revolutionaries Front, a relatively secular-minded group viewed as “moderates” by the United States. Deir Sunbul lies in the Jabal al-Zawiya […]
Israel’s Exclusion of Palestinians from Area C Costs Pals. $2.2 bn a Year
World Bank “If businesses and farms were permitted to develop on Area C land, 61 percent of the West Bank, it would add as much as 35% to the Palestinian gross domestic product.” World Bank: “Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy
Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections?
CCTV “In the United States, the gap between rich and poor is the highest it has been since 1928. This gap is painfully obvious in a state like Arkansas. CCTV America’s Sean Callebs visited Little Rock to speak to residents about their concerns as part of our ongoing series, Route 2014: The Road to the […]
Was Sen. Lindsey Graham just Joking when he Supported White Men in Male Only Clubs?
The Young Turks: “”In a statement, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tried to play off a joke he made at a private, all-male dinner as totally un-serious and not-racist, that joke being: “If I get to be president, white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.” (Needless to say, […]
The Pentagon wants to Surrender to Climate Change, not Fight It
By Eric Bonds via Foreign Policy in Focus The Pentagon recently released a new report sounding the alarm on the national security threats posed by climate change. Like previous reports on the subject, this one makes clear that Department of Defense (DoD) planners believe that global warming will seriously challenge our nation’s military forces. The […]
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