Human Rights Watch . | – – 700 Buildings Destroyed in Single Muslim Village in Rakhine State (New York) – New satellite imagery shows several hundred buildings burned in Burma’s Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township shows 700 buildings burned, a […]
Khizr Khan: Liberty requires Vigilance & Sacrifice in defense of Constitution
The Atlantic | (Video Report) | – – “Liberty requires vigilance and sacrifice so we remain standing in defense of our Constitution and its values,” says Khizr Khan. The lawyer and Gold Star father of Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, spoke out against President Trump at the Democratic National Committee Convention […]
Arabs, Thomas Friedman and the “iron fist”
By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com) Writing about conflicts in the Middle East for the New York Times yesterday, columnist Thomas Friedman talked of “the power that is lost to a society like Syria or Iraq that needs an iron fist to make its many into one, and when that fist is removed, how the […]
Heavy Smoke from SF Russian Consulate Chimney as Moscow Fears Search by US
By Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL ) | – – WASHINGTON — Russia’s Foreign Ministry said that U.S. law enforcement officials intend to search its San Francisco consulate and some diplomatic residences, and it complained the U.S. demands were posing a “direct threat” to its citizens. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement […]
Beyond Charlottesville: Can we End Structural Violence against People of Color?
By Gregory Alonso Pirio | (Informed Comment) | – – The importance of opposing the resurgence of emboldened KKK, Neo-Nazis and other hate-filled white supremacists that were on display in Charlottesville cannot be easily underestimated. Equally, if not more urgent, however, is the need to take advantage of the national disgust of hate groups by […]
Cop Arrests Nurse For Doing Her Job (TYT Video)
Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Maytha Alhassen | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “A police officer in Salt Lake City arrested a nurse because she refused to break the law. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Maytha Alhassen of The Young Turks, break it down.” TYT: “Cop Arrests Nurse For Doing Her Job […]
Is Deregulation behind explosions at Texas Chem Plant, polluting of Air and Water?
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “People don’t know what’s seeping into their air and their homes.” “Now the thing’s exploded, and people don’t know what’s seeping into their air and their homes.” —Lydia DePillis, Houston Chronicle Two explosions and “plumes of black smoke” were reported early Thursday morning at […]
The Racism Heard Round the World: Even Fascists Denounce Nazis more than Trump
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem. On race relations, the United States has slipped into the same category as Burundi and Iraq. After the violence in Charlottesville earlier this month — and […]
Muslim Rohingya Refugees Drown as They flee Buddhist Persecution in Myanmar
TeleSur | – – Around 27,400 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since Friday. Bangladeshi border guards have recovered two dozen bodies from the country’s shore in the last two days, as tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar. The bodies of 11 Rohingya children and nine women washed up […]