Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks video report) | & Media Matters | – – 1. Media Matters Tweet: Fox co-hosts attack Mark Zuckerberg over expressing support for the Muslim community: https://t.co/c0M3YVpg7l pic.twitter.com/2yU4IHffhE — Media Matters (@mmfa) December 10, 2015 2. Cenk Uygur: “Mark Zuckerberg recently put out a statement supporting Muslims throughout the world. […]
Iraqis wrangle over who should free Mosul: Kurds, Russia, US or Shiite Militias?
Iman Asaad | Sulaymaniyah | (Niqash.org) | – – Who would be the best to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State group? A survey of Iraqi opinions on NIQASH’s Facebook page received 900 comments and show just how deeply divided the country is. An unofficial survey on Facebook that garnered over 930 replies from Iraqis […]
Robert Gordon U in Scotland Strips Trump of Honorary Degree
Contessa Brewer | (CBSN video news report) | – – “In the wake of his controversial plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., Robert Gordon University in Scotland is revoking an honorary degree it awarded Donald Trump in 2010. The school says that the Republican candidate’s statements are incompatible with the university’s standards. CBSN’s […]
The Conservative Rhetoric of Hate: How to Lose Friends and legitimate Extremist Worldviews
BY TAREQ A. RAMADAN | (Informed Comment) | – – Highly essentialist and virulent anti-Islamic, anti-Arab ‘conservative’ platitudes on Islam and Muslims being disseminated by outspoken members of the GOP (such as Donald Trump, Ben Carson and others) have become so dangerously popularized and, to varying degrees, normalized as Presidential candidates use reckless, xenophobic and […]
The real Threat to Peace? Marco Rubio Is Winning the Neocon Primary
By Sina Toossi | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – With pundits and columnists dissecting and critiquing every word uttered by GOP front-runners Ben Carson and Donald Trump, comparatively little attention has been paid to the positions and affiliations of a far more electable Republican presidential candidate: Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Unlike Trump or […]
10 facts the government doesn’t want you to know about Syria
By Ian Sinclair | (Open Democracy) | – – Following the Paris terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015, the British government has got its wish to join the air campaign against Islamic State (IS or ISIS) in Syria, winning the parliamentary vote on 2 December 2015. With many of the government’s dubious assertions often either […]
US nonprofits ‘donate $220 mn.’ to Israeli Squatter settlements on Palestinian West Bank
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over $220 million has been given in tax-exempted US funds to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank over the last five years, according to an investigative report by Israeli news site Haaretz this week. Haaretz published the findings after analyzing thousands of documents from […]
Global Outrage at Trump Islamophobia; French PM: “Mr Trump…is feeding hatred and misinformation”
Euractiv.com | – – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday (8 December) defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans in an attempt to dismiss growing outrage from around the world. On Monday (7 December), the billionaire conservative called for blocking […]
Oh, no! Not another American war against evil!
By Ira Chernus | (Informed Comment) | – – This time, it’s the Islamic State (IS). After the attacks in Paris, Barack Obama, spokesman-in-chief for the United States of America, called that crew “the face of evil.” Shades of George W. Bush. The “evildoers” are back. And from every mountaintop, it seems, America now rings […]
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