Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a new Shiite-sponsored plan that will try and make that unity last leaked in Baghdad last week. If the extremist group that caused Iraq’s current security crisis starting mid-2014, have done […]
US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Sessions has said that he supports the use of torture and has expressed a range of views inimical […]
Bad Rain Falling: Who’s to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?
By Todd Gitlin | (Billmoyers.com) | – – These days are for resistance to the abomination that has befallen us; as also for decent conduct among our injured humanity of every shape and color; as also for “tears of rage, tears of grief,” in the pained words of our Nobel laureate, who some 50 years […]
Which of Trump’s Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?
TeleSur | – – The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe. Donald Trump has disclosed more names to to fill his cabinet, choosing the controversial Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and Lt. Gen. (ret.) […]
Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels make clear that Jesus spoke Aramaic by occasionally quoting his original words in that language. Jesus says to the little girl he heals, […]
The Islamophobic Black-Ops Master who’ll Head Trump’s National Security Team
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – As former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was “one of the most influential figures in the dramatic post-9/11 expansion of the role of U.S. Special Operations forces globally,” (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Amid the many rumored reports of President-elect […]
Lieberman calls on Trump to help development of Israeli squatter settlements
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amid a storm of postulations surrounding what the American President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would look like in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday called again on Trump to coordinate with the Israeli government in order to “enable the development of […]
16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change
AJ+ | (Video Report) | – – “Indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is one of 21 young plaintiffs suing the federal government to demand action on climate change.” AJ+: “16-Year-Old Sues Federal Government On Climate Change”
ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry
ADL Director Jonathan Greenblatt pledged today that he would sign himself up for a registry of foreign-born Muslims.
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