Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education released a report this week detailing that 11,923 students in Gaza have been killed by […]
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Does Turkey’s PM Erdogan have a GOP-Style “Woman Problem”?
By Macidegül Batmaz We know that women have always been an easy target for politicians around the world. But there is no other country like […]
Souad Nawfal forced to flee after jihadist threats
A prominent female civilian activist has been forced to leave Syria because of threats to her life by hard-line jihadists, according to Arabiya television.
Jon Stewart: Fox seems a little Hysterical about Muslim-American Women Swimming
Jon Stewart has discovered the most horrible thing in the world on Fox Cable News. A YMCA in St. Paul Minnesota has set aside an […]
A Jewish Woman in Tunis, 1880: Photo of the Day
Jewish Woman in Tunis, c. 1880. via University of Chicago Middle East Photos For the history of Tunisian Jews see this site
Trashing the Law against warrantless GPS tracking: NSA nabs 5 Billion Phone location Records a Day
Remember when the National Security Agency officials maintained that they were “only” collecting “metadata” from your cell phones? What they meant by that was that […]
GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible
Opposing views points to the scary ignorance and bible-thumping to which GOP representatives in Congress are appealing in their genocidal stand against quick action on […]
Best-Selling German Satirical Novel About Return of Hitler To Be Made Into Film
A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. Click here for the rest […]
Jazz Oud from Tunisia: Dhafer Youseff, “Eastern Waves”
Tunisian oud jazz by Dhafer Youseff Dhafer Youseff Quartet, “Eastern Waves” (“Les Ondes Orientales”) For more on the artist see CCTV :
Almost Human: How Robots, Race and Neoliberalism killed Detroit and what it Means for You
Detroit can go into bankruptcy, a judge has ruled. Likely it means that workers’ pensions will be at least in part stolen from them. It […]