RT | (Video News Report) | – – “Turkey has made a formal request to the German government to prosecute a TV comedian over a crude poem about the Turkish President.” RT: “Erdogan demands Germany prosecute comedian over satirical poem”
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Archives for 2016
American Muslims Challenge #AboutUsWithoutUs by Running for Office
Written by Bridge Initiative Team | – – An important hashtag has been circulating on Twitter for the past few weeks. #AboutUsWithoutUs. #AboutUsWithoutUs seeks to reorient national conversations about Muslim Americans to one that includes Muslim American voices in policy discussions. This is a critical distinction because Muslim Americans have largely been silent stakeholders to […]
Sanders joins Striking Verizon Workers: says to CEOs, “I welcome their Contempt”
TeleSur The senator from Vermont thanked the striking workers for “standing up for justice against corporate greed.” Nearly 40,000 Verizon Communications workers walked off the job Wednesday and were joined by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as they protested a lack of progress in contracts talks more than eight months after their agreements with […]
Erekat: Escalation of Israeli squatter settlement construction a ‘war crime’
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat denounced on Wednesday recent Israeli plans to expand illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, calling it a “war crime.” “The continued Israeli colonization of Palestine is a war crime under international law,” Erekat said in a statement. […]
5 Years After Revolution, Egyptians See #PanamaPapers as Further Vindication of Mubarak’s Ouster
By Salma Essam | (Global Voices) | – – Among the names contained in the Panama Papers, the enormous trove of confidential documents revealing how the world's elite exploit tax havens, is Alaa Mubarak, son of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, and other associates of Egypt's former autocratic leader. Hosni Mubarak was ousted in the 2011 […]
Arab Youth view ISIL as major Mideast Obstacle, want less Religion
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The annual Arab Youth survey conducted by pollsters Burson-Marsteller is out, reporting on 3500 interviews with Arabs 18-24 years of age in 16 countries. Those of you who have read my recent book, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East , […]
Is Hillary Clinton vulnerable to Trump over her 2002 vote for the Iraq War?
Tom F.A Watts | (The Conversation) | – – To the horror of almost everyone in mainstream US politics, it seems increasingly likely that by the close of the Republican National Convention in July, Donald Trump will have snatched the prize he has long coveted: the Republican presidential nomination. The party’s leadership is no longer […]
Forget the Trump/Cruz Circus: Why Liberals are the Future of America
By James A. Haught | (Informed Comment) | – – In the chaotic presidential campaign, the remarkable popularity of Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders spotlights a large, not-always-recognized vein of liberal political sympathy in America. Suddenly, the L-word is popular again — not an embarrassment to be avoided. That’s great, I think, because progressives have been […]
Lebanon: Over 70% of Syrian Refugee Children Forced into Exploitative Child Labor
TeleSur | – – A report by an anti-slavery group also details how Syrian refugee girls are being forced into child marriage and sex slavery. Up to 70 percent of Syrian refugee children are being forced into child labor in Lebanon, the anti-slavery Freedom Fund group said in a report Tuesday. The report also pointed […]
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