Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said on Saturday that Israel has detained 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2015, including two foreign reporters. The New York-based committee said in a report that during detention and imprisonment, journalists have reported torture, medical negligence, […]
Archives for April 2016
Thousands protest Gov’t in Egypt over Saudi Hegemony
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Thousands of Egyptians came into the streets Friday in the first major demonstrations in 2 and a half years, to protest the bestowal of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir on Saudi Arabia. Many Egyptians believe that the islands belong to Egypt, and it is unconstitutional […]
Walt Whitman: Purpose of the US to found Friendship between East and West
Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | – – To the East and to the West To the East and to the West, To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love, These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs […]
Bernie Sanders at Vatican: Pope has played historical Role in trying to Create a new World Economy
Rome Reports in English | (Video News Report) | – – Rome Reports: “Bernie Sanders speaks at the Vatican”
Is Exxon a James Bond Villain? Hiding from us its knowledge of Climate Change for Decades
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Video Report) | – – “Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, global warming – Exxon was aware of the risks of climate change well before much of the world. Instead of taking action, they pushed hard against legislation that would have cut CO2 emissions, including the Kyoto Protocol.” AJ+: ” Exxon […]
Israeli Parliamentary committee debates racial discrimination in maternity wards
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A meeting of a Knesset committee held Wednesday debated the issue of segregation between Palestinian and Jewish women in Israeli maternity wards, following media reports and allegations of racial discrimination in Israel’s hospitals, according to a Knesset press release. A recent report by Israel Radio exposed […]
Daesh and Territorial Control Reconsidered
By Michael Degerald | ( History X ISIS ) | – – It might seem strange to open this essay by speaking about circulation and vitality in regard to Daesh [ISIS, ISIL]. Yet when we think of a nation-state, circulation is rarely the first thing that comes to our minds. Imagine a room where air […]
IS GOP aiming for 21st Century White Apartheid in America?
Arun Gupta | ( TeleSur ) | – – To compete on a national level the Republican right is creating a system of intersectional apartheid. No matter what happens with Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency, the Republican Party has a bright future as a party of patriarchal white nationalism. Its grip on white support […]
The Bernie Sanders Miracle: American Crowd in Brooklyn Cheers Palestinian Dignity
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic debate in Brooklyn last night took an unusual turn when a grumpy old Jewish American upbraided a slightly younger Illinois Methodist for not respecting the dignity of the Palestinian people. BLITZER [Used to work for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby] : . […]
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