By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Several Sunni Muslim families were forced out of their mainly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in Baghdad recently. Locals fear the creeping return of sectarian tensions, as street by street changes. Earlier this month, the head of the Baghdad provincial council’s security committee, Mohammed al-Rubaie, announced that […]
Sell that Oil Stock! Electric Cars are Here
The Tree | – – As fossil fuels fight loud and clumsy battles for continued dominance in countries such as the US, UK, and Australia, a renewable revolution as quiet as the electric cars it powers continues apace everywhere that people care about air and noise pollution, prosperity, and the global environment. After a decade […]
Why a Trump-appointed Supreme Court would mean Workers are Screwed
By Michele Gilman | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump touts that as president he would be good for American workers. Although many of his plans are vague or possibly harmful, there is one clear outcome of a Trump presidency: with the power to appoint Supreme Court justices, Trump promises to continue a conservative […]
US Veterans’ Biggest Battle: Challenging Islamophobia
By Nate Terani | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I’m not an immigrant, but my grandparents are. More than 50 years ago, they arrived in New York City from Iran. I grew up mainly in central New Jersey, an American kid playing little league for the Raritan Red Sox and soccer for the Raritan […]
Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Journalist Hani Fanun, whose family owns the trees, said his family went to harvest olives on their […]
Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos
By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. | (ProPublica) | – – Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays. The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by […]
60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War
By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | – – Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis and Tony Blair’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq are worth pondering. In both cases prime ministerial decision-making dictated the course of British […]
UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to *3* Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It
By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the UNESCO Resolution full text of the UNESCO resolution [pdf] on Palestine and Israel, before he raved with anger? “I think this is a mistaken, inconceivable resolution,” he said. “It is not possible to continue with these […]
Does Trump’s lag prove the end of White Christian America?
Robert P. Jones | The Atlantic | (Video News Report) | – – ‘The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and that is already beginning to have profound social and political implications. At 45 percent of the population, white Christians are a shrinking demographic—and the backlash from many members of the […]