By Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – The Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen carried out at least six apparently unlawful airstrikes in residential areas of the capital, Sanaa, in September and October 2015, killing 60 civilians. Coalition members and the United States, as a party to the conflict, are required under the […]
Biggest Trump Lies 2015: 76% of what Donald Trump Says is Garbage
Nik Zecevic and Margaret J. Howell | (TheLipTV video report) | – – “Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has won the 2015 PolitiFact “Lie of the Year” award. While investigating Trump’s statements during his political campaign, PolitiFact found that 76% of Trump’s statements were either mostly false, false or “pants on fire” out of the 77 […]
When did Justifying Large Scale Civilian Deaths in Bombardments become a Bipartisan Consensus?
By Stephen Zunes | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – There’s a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the “war on terrorism.” There has been a lot of consternation expressed in the media at a series of statements by Republican presidential candidates during their most recent debate and elsewhere in which […]
Saudi’s Suffragists: Women vote for first time, are elected to City Councils
By Katherine Mackenzie | (Inter Press Service) | – – ABU DHABI (IPS) – The triumph of 19 women in what is being seen as a landmark and historical election in a largely traditional and conservative country is a massive gain for women. A United Arab Emirates (UAE) daily newspaper called this a right step […]
Oh little town Near Bethlehem, cut off from Highway by Israeli Military
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The movement of residents in Ras Al-Wad southwest of Bethlehem has been cut off for weeks by Israeli military forces, locals said Wednesday. A resident told Ma’an that the forces closed off the main entrance to the small village with large mounds of dirt around three […]
Poll: Bernie Sanders would beat ‘Embarrassment’ Trump by a Landslide
Wochit News | (Video report) | – – A Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38% . Sec. Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump by 47% […]
Islamophobia in 2015: The Good, the Bad and the Hopeful
By the Bridge Initiative Team | – – Looking back at the last twelve months, it can initially appear that Islamophobia was pretty bad in 2015. And indeed it was. Attacks against Muslims in the United States and their institutions have occurred in rapid succession. Meanwhile, leading politicians and the voting public have expressed increasingly […]
If Iraq can take Ramadi from ISIL/ Daesh, it will Need to reach out to Sunnis
By Balsam Mustafa and Scott Lucas | (The Conversation) | – – After days of mounting expectation, the Iraqi government finally announced a serious offensive to retake the city of Ramadi, the capital of western Iraq’s Anbar Province, from [the so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS). This is far from the first announcement of the imminent […]
ISIS and the Abuse of History
By Akil N. Awan and A. Warren Dockter | ( History Today) | – – Volume 66 Issue 1, January 2016 N. B. IC house style is Daesh, but this is a reprint from elsewhere). The defeat of ISIS can only be achieved if we take a long view and question the Jihadists’ simplistic interpretation […]
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