religion

Human Rights Watch | – – 288 Villages, Tens of Thousands of Structures Torched (New York) – Newly released satellite images reveal that at least 288 villages were partially or totally destroyed by fire in northern Rakhine State in Burma since August 25, 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. The destruction encompassed tens of thousands […]

Buddhism

Eyewitness: the Rohingya horrors and Aung San Suu Kyi’s whitewash

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By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at nursery and was scrolling through Twitter, when I spotted a video of another mother’s two children. The youngest was a one-year-old boy, the same age as my own youngest; the […]

Iraq

Alarmed Kurdistan forces Mobilized at Kirkuk as Iraqi troops said to Mass on Border

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Kurds say Shiite militias heading for Kirkuk

Christians

Corporations Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

Juan Cole

First corporations were people, then they could donate anonymously to political campaigns, now they control your private parts

Buddhism

Rohingya Refugee Women Bring Stories of Unspeakable Violence

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Buddhist persecution of Muslim Burmese Continues

Authoritarianism

Detroit’s Eminem raps against Trump, defends Muslims

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Marshall “Eminem” Mathers | BETNetwork | (Music Video) | – – “Eminem is back! And he’s in classic bar-for-bar form blasting at Donald Trump from his Detroit home. The cyphers went crazy too. Peep.” BETNetworks: “Eminem Rips Donald Trump In BET Hip Hop Awards Freestyle Cypher” Read “The Storm (2017 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher Verse)” […]

Buddhism

Can the West Help the Rohingya of Myanmar/ Burma?

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By Ludovica Marchi | (LSE: British Politics and Policy) | – – Violence in Myanmar has resulted in more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims leaving the country and seeking refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.Ludovica Marchi argues that the EU should take advantage of its good relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help ease […]

Anti-War Movement

Giraldi Controversy: No, US wars in Mideast are not for Israel Lobby

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By Ian Berman* | (Informed Comment) | – – CIA Veteran Philip Giraldi kicked off a firestorm with his article, “America’s Jews are Driving America’s Wars.” A man of considerable experience with 20 years in anti-terrorism in Europe and the Middle East with the CIA and U.S. Army Intelligence, his opinion carries some weight. Since […]

Austria

Austria Bans Burqa, Demands Muslim ‘Integration’ before Elections

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TeleSur | – – The move comes ahead of the Oct.15 elections that critics worry might favor anti-immigration parties. Austria has decided to ban the full Islamic veil or Burqa and other items that mask the face in public spaces. The move comes ahead of the Oct.15 elections that critics worry might place the parties […]