By Marianna Fotaki (IPS) – The European Union should not be afraid of the leftist opposition party Syriza winning the Greek election, but see it as a chance to rediscover its founding principle – the social dimension that created it and without which it cannot survive. Greece’s entire economy accounts for three per cent of […]
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International Politics and Economy
Saudi’s Barbaric Flogging for Blogging, explained by a Blogger
BBC News | — “Blogger Raif Badawi has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for criticising Saudi Arabian clerics on his internet blog. British blogger Sunny Hundal said this case, and others like it, mean the UK should stop “hugging” the Saudi regime. In a personal film, he said it was […]
Surprise! German anti-Muslim Leader Resigns after Posing as Hitler
Euronews | — “The leader of the anti-Islamisation PEGIDA organization in Germany has quit after a photo of him posing as Hitler was published in the Bild newspaper, throwing the future of the movement in doubt. Lutz Bachmann resigned with an apology to all those he offended over comments he made on Facebook where he […]
Yemenis living “hour to hour” as Houthis take Presidential Palace
SANA’A (IRIN) – Muneer Asharby nearly didn’t go to work today. It wasn’t until after noon that he finally braved the walk. Even so, he kept half of his hardware shop closed in case he needed to make a fast exit. The day before a mortar shell landed just in front of his shop, in […]
Bobby Jindal Gets Called Out for Muslim “No-Go Zones”
TheLipTV | — “Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal continues to spread the myth of “no-go zones” after Fox News issued an on-air apology and correction for allowing its anchors to make the false claim about the Muslim-only areas in European countries that are not under the control of the state and are ruled according to Shariah […]
Charlie Hebdo & French ‘Secularism’: Does it really just privilege White Christians?
By Mayanthi Fernando | The Conversation Commentators in France and elsewhere have taken the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as an occasion to reflect more broadly about Muslims in France. Many read the attacks as a sign of French Muslims’ refusal to integrate. They’ve asked whether Muslims can be fully secular and expressed doubt as […]
Learning from Paris: Are you Charlie Hebdo? (Juan on Radio w/ C. Lydon)
Christopher Lydon | Radio Open Source ” Learning from Paris The story of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo has gone everywhere in the past week: into meditations on free speech and blasphemy, into declarations of cultural and actual war, and high-wire geopolitics. It’s a fresh attack, meaning high emotion and demands for ‘moral clarity‘ — […]
Fox ‘News’ Schooled By French ‘Daily Show’ On Muslim ‘No-Go Zones’
AJ+ | — “The host of France’s “Le Petit Journal,” Yann Barthès, asked his audience to flood Fox News with claims about Parisian “no-go zones.” Since the Charlie Hebdo attack, several Fox guests have asserted that parts of England and France are Muslim-run, with non-Muslims and police not welcome. But Barthès did some fact-checking on […]
Civilization’s Advance has depended on “Blasphemy” of Thinkers & Mystics
By Farhang Jahanpour The Wednesday edition of Charlie Hebdo (a week after the barbaric attack by two deranged terrorists on its premises) carried a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad, with a caption “Je Suis Charlie”, with a tear drop on his face announcing, “all is forgiven”. It is not clear who is forgiven and for what, […]