Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A graduate student union at New York University on Friday voted in favor of joining the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights. Two-thirds of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee cast a vote in support of the resolution, which calls on […]
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Archives for 2016
After Paris COP21: Top 6 Green Energy good News Stories Today
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – World leaders signed the COP21 Paris climate accord on Friday, Earth Day. Whether it will be meaningful in stopping carbon dioxide emissions and emissions of other dangerous greenhouse gases that are warming our planet remains to be seen. But there is some good news on the […]
US confused over Russia’s real intentions in Syria
By EurActiv.com | – – Russia’s latest military moves in Syria have sharpened divisions within the US administration over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin genuinely backs a UN-led initiative to end the civil war or is using the negotiations to mask renewed military support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. Russia has repositioned artillery near the […]
Why Burqa Veils Are Illegal In Some Countries
Laura Ling | (TestTube Video Report) | – – “Face veils are often viewed as a symbol of modesty in Islam, but many governments have put restrictions on them. So where are burqas banned around the world?” TestTube: ” Why Burqas Are Illegal In Some Countries”
Love and Wine (Poem of the Day: Abu Nuwas of Baghdad)
Abū Nuwas al-Hasan ibn Hanī al-Hakamī (756–814) | Love and Wine | – – Ho! a cup, and fill it up, and tell me it is wine, For never will I drink in shade if I can drink in shine. Curst and poor is every hour that sober I must go, But rich am I […]
Israel Forcibly closes More Bedouin Villages in Negev Desert
By Silvia Boarini | (Inter Press Service) | – – UMM AL-HERAN, Southern Israel, Apr 22 2016 (IPS) – Despite ostensibly freezing the Prawer Plan — a proposed bill to ‘regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev’– in 2013, Israel continues to push for forced closure of unrecognised Bedouin villages in this southern region. The village […]
The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal
By Charles Davis | ( TeleSur | – – The U.S. is at war with the same extremist group it claimed to have defeated five years ago, and it’s relying on sectarian extremists to "win" again. The United States is winning the war on terror, just as it always has. The Islamic State group is […]
Prince’s Islamophilia as a Problem: “It’s fun to be in Islamic Countries”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – in a 2011 interview in The Guardian, the late musician Prince said something that surprised his interviewer, Dorian Linskey: “It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.” Mr. […]
In Fascist Turn, Thousands Demonstrate for Israeli Soldier who shot Dazed Palestinian in Head
AJ+ | – – “An Israeli soldier was charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing a wounded Palestinian man. Now, thousands are still demanding his release.” AJ+: “Israelis Demonstrate In Support Of Soldier Who Killed Palestinian”