By William D. Hartung | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – When American firms dominate a global market worth more than $70 billion a year, you’d expect to hear about it. Not so with the global arms trade. It’s good for one or two stories a year in the mainstream media, usually when the annual statistics on […]
Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
By Fatma Müge Göçek | (The Conversation) | – – After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge thousands of academics and deans from office. In a crackdown that rapidly spread across civil and military services, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
Sarah Silverman to Bernie or Bust folks at DNC 2016: You are being ridiculous
NJ.com | (News Video Clip) | – – “Comedian and Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman took the stage along side of Al Franken to tell the crowd to unite and support Hillary Clinton during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.” NJ.com: “Sarah Silverman to Bernie or Bust folks at DNC 2016: […]
Palestinian FM asks Arab League to help sue UK over Balfour Declaration
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki urged the Arab League to help the Palestinian Authority to sue the United Kingdom over the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on Monday. Speaking on behalf of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, al-Maliki delivered a speech Thursday at the Arab League’s annual summit, […]
Amid Trump Campaign, New Jersey Muslims Step Up Outreach
By Daniella Cheslow | ( RFE/RL) | – – PATERSON, New Jersey — The president of the largest mosque in northern New Jersey says Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House has galvanized his community to raise its profile and reach out to non-Muslim neighbors. “We’re cautious that we don’t want people to know about […]
Lieberman: Palestinian National Poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Verse is ‘Mein Kampf’
By IMEMC News | – – Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has compared the broadcast of poetry by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish on Israeli radio to glorifying Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” the Ministry of Defense said on Thursday. On Tuesday, Israeli army radio broadcast works by the iconic Palestinian writer as part of its “University […]
Our American Crimes against the Future
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I recently dug my mother’s childhood photo album out of the depths of my bedroom closet. When I opened it, I found that the glue she had used as a girl to paste her life in place had given way, and on many pages the photos […]
Disgraced Wasserman Schultz Resigns as DNC Chair, Gets Hired by Clinton
By TeleSur | – – Her resignation came hours after Bernie Sanders called on her to step down after emails showed how biased she was against his campaign. The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned Sunday just two days after thousands of party emails were leaked and was immediately hired by […]
Maybe Oil was a bad Idea: Temps in Mideast Beat Heat Records for E. Hemisphere
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | Commondreams.org ) – – “I’ve never seen Celsius temps like these on a weather map before,” climate scientist Michael Mann said on Twitter. Thermometers in Kuwait and Iraq reached record-shattering temperatures this week, with Weather Underground reporting that the measurements could be the hottest ever seen in the Eastern […]
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