Maz Jobrani | (Video skit) | – – “Donald Trump has said that if he wins he will do EXTREME VETTING of all immigrants. He hasn’t said how that would work, but maybe it would go a little something like this?” Maz Jobrani, “Donald Trump EXTREME VETTING
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Archives for 2016
Syria Quagmire: Has Russia Accomplished anything in a year of Bombing?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Alarabiya says that Russia has killed over 3,000 civilians in its bombing raids of the past year. BBC Monitoring translated an article by Mikhail Khodarenok at the Gazeta.ru site from 23 September that tries to explain why any decisive victory in Syria has eluded Russia during […]
Iran releases Canadian Academic it accused of ‘Feminism,’ but Crackdown on Women Activists Continues
By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | – – Some good news reached Canada this week when Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian anthropologist, was released after months of incarceration in Iran. Hoodfar is known for her research on women and Islam, especially women's participation in Iranian elections. Her arrest highlighted two particular areas of sensitivity for […]
‘Smoking Gun’ Shows GOP-Oil Industry Climate Denial Collusion
By TeleSur | – – Republican attorneys general are accused of helping shield ExxonMobil over climate change fabrications. Environmental groups have called allegations of Republican attorneys generals colluding with lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry “a smoking gun when it comes to fossil fuel industry corruption.” These Republican officials are accused of protecting oil giant […]
The Shootings you Didn’t Hear Trump Denounce because, not Muslim
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Cable news and social media in the United States don’t go into “OhmyGod there’s only One Story” mode about mass shootings unless they somehow involve Muslims. The downside of this procedure is that Americans think Muslims in the US are way more violent than they actually […]
Saudi women demand full rights, end to guardianship system
By Sarah Aziza | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – In Saudi Arabia, a country many view as synonymous with gender discrimination, women are seeing signs of change. While a few top-down reforms have come in recent years — the right to vote in municipal elections, for example, was introduced by King Abdullah in […]
Would Trump in White House defraud us into Crash worse than 2008?
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis never happened. The markets didn’t tank to reveal the emptiness beneath his schemes. We still don’t know what’s lurking in his tax returns […]
Top Six things *You* can Do to Stop Global Warming – Bill Nye
AJ+ | (Video) “Bill Nye the Science Guy has a few solutions to curbing climate change and putting a stop to global warming.” AJ+: ” Bill Nye’s Climate Call To Action” 1. Increase efficiency 2. Produce electricity renewably (wind and solar) 3. Revolutionize energy infrastructure & distribution 4. Electrify all ground transportation 5. Carbon tax […]
How the JASTA override on Saudi could Bite Americans in the Ass
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, but Congress has for the first time in his presidency over-ridden his veto. This is a disastrous law with potentially ruinous effects on the US economy and US policy. Individual tort suits against other countries had […]
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