Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLHEM (Ma’an) — At least 96 Palestinians have been wounded by live rounds or rubber-coated steel bullets in clashes with Israeli forces and settlers since Saturday evening, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. Dr. Abed Rabbo Manasra told Ma’an late on Sunday that 28 Palestinians had been shot with live […]
Turkey fears fallout from Russian strikes in Syria
Euractiv | – – Turkey will not allow “terror to take root” or “fait accompli situations” next to its borders, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday (1 October), a day after Russia launched air strikes in neighboring Syria. Russia launched its biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades on Wednesday (30 September), targeting […]
The Young Iraqis Promoting Darwinism and Rationalism To Save Iraq
Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – One of the more unusual, grass roots groups in Iraq today is Real Sciences. They are young Iraqis who translate scientific articles into Arabic, believing that a little more of this could combat violence. In the midst of the conflicts that Baghdad in particular, and the […]
Palestine – The Exception To Free Speech In The U.S.?”
AJ+ | (Video News Report) – – “University campuses are the front line of Palestinian human-rights advocacy in the U.S., but a new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal documents hundreds of cases in which students and scholars have been punished for their free speech.” AJ+: “Palestine – The Exception To […]
Kathleen Turner: The Real Target of the Planned Parenthood Attacks
By Kathleen Turner | (Otherwords.org) “The leading GOP candidates have aligned themselves with a platform based on endangering women’s health care access. In the first two Republican presidential debates, the candidates slugged it out over who hated Planned Parenthood the most. Virtually every hopeful promised to defund the organization. Some of them, including Senator Ted […]
Can anti-Muslim Bigotry Help Donald Trump Or Ben Carson Win The Republican Race?
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “Donald Trump may still lead the Republican polls, but Ben Carson is now only a point behind. What do the two candidates have in common? Well, for one thing, they’ve both been involved in anti-Muslim sentiment this month.” AJ+: “Can Bigotry Help Donald Trump Or Ben Carson […]
Afghanistan’s Elite Special Forces led in Recovering most of Kunduz from Taliban
By Frud Bezhan | (RFE/RL) | – – Afghanistan’s much-maligned security forces were facing their greatest challenge yet in trying to retake a key northern city from the Taliban — and expectations were not high. But, when the smoke cleared, Kunduz was back in government control, and predictions of a bloody and protracted street war […]
Alabama Requires Photo IDs for Voting, Then Shutters DMV Offices in Black Counties
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “The ‘decision to cut out ID services to almost all counties with a majority black population is discriminatory and wrong,’ says ACLU of Alabama.” Some observers say that Alabama’s move to close dozens of drivers license offices is a discriminatory move that could trigger […]
Reason Trumped: How the Donald Phenom will Change our Lives
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The 2016 election campaign is certainly a billionaire’s playground when it comes to “establishment candidates” like Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush who cater to mega-donors and use their money to try to rally party bases. The only genuine exception to the rule this time around has […]
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