By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Despite US schools’ tendency to give students several years of American history, over and over again, most of us probably have only a foggy idea who Harriet Tubman, chosen to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, was. That she was an abolitionist and helped out […]
Archives for April 2016
Poll: Most Russians Prefer Return of Soviet Union and Socialism
TeleSur | – – A recent poll revealed that most Russians would like to see the return of the Soviet Union and socialism. The majority of Russians polled in a recent study would prefer living under the Soviet Union and would like to see the socialist system and Soviet state restored. According to the latest […]
Israeli Terrorist convicted of Murdering, Burning Palestinian Teen
By IMEMC | – – After nearly two years of delay, the leading suspect in the brutal death of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Abu Khdeir was convicted of murder, this Tuesday. The Abu Khdeir family’s lawyer Muhannad Jbara told Ma’an News Agency that an Israeli court rejected insanity pleas presented by the lawyers of Yosef Chaim […]
Press Freedom in ‘Deep And Disturbing’ Decline in New Age of Propaganda
By RFE/RL | – – A leading journalism advocacy group says media freedom experienced a sharp decline around the world over the past year, citing increasing government restrictions in places like Turkey, Poland, Tajikistan, and Egypt. In its 2016 World Press Freedom Index released on April 20, Reporters Without Borders said that there had been […]
Iran after Nuclear Deal: Renewed Isolation or a pay-off for Pres. Rouhani?
By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – President Hasan Rouhani’s honeymoon period is over. He faces mounting opposition in Iran, and very difficult questions abroad. How can he respond to these challenges? The gloss of the November 2015 nuclear deal that removed some international sanctions on Iran is losing its shine. President Hasan […]
What GOP New Yorkers just voted for: Torture, Syria Intervention, murder of innocents
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In the wake of his big win in New York, I want to push back once more against the normalization of Trump as a legitimate presidential candidate, given his policy positions. Let us remember what the Republicans of New York voted for (there are hardly any […]
Jailed without trial for Life? Guantanamo’s Lawlessness may outlast the Obama Administration
By Karen J. Greenberg | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Can you believe it? We’re in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval Office, swore that he would close Guantánamo, and yet it and everything it represents remains part of our all-American world. So many years […]
Activists Ask IRS why Jewish National Fund gets Tax Break for Illegal Squatter Support
by IMEMC | – – On Tuesday, Tax Day, activists delivered a petition with more than 5,000 signatures to IRS offices across the United States demanding the tax-exempt status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) be revoked due to its role in displacing Palestinians and supporting illegal Israeli settlements. The petition was delivered to offices […]
Is Climate Change drying out the Middle East even More?
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – CAIRO (IPS) – There is an oil producing country situated in the Gulf region, made of a cluster of islands. It is small, surface and population wise. But it holds the dubious privilege of ranking top of the list of 14 out of the 33 […]
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