Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey on Saturday accused Saudi Arabia of failing to cooperate with a probe into the disappearance of a journalist inside its Istanbul consulate, as US President Donald Trump threatened Riyadh with “severe punishment” if it turns out he was killed. Comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu represented a hardening of Ankara’s […]
Archives for October 2018
Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court orders Gov’t to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically
An appeals court in the Netherlands has upheld a 2015 lower court ruling in a class action case that the Dutch government needs to do more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. So far the Netherlands has only reduced 13% from 1990 levels. The court appealed to the principle […]
Saudi Media Meet Collapses after Khashoggi Murder, but Trump Wants Business
By Clare BYRNE and Fabien ZAMORA | – Paris (AFP) – Donald Trump claims he is being “very tough” with Saudi Arabia and Britain has warned of “serious consequences”. But besides demanding the truth about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the West is likely to continue doing business as usual with the Gulf kingdom, […]
Yemen: Saudi-led War, Climate Change Creating Disastrous Water Shortage
By Romy Haber | – ( Global Voices Online) – Yemen, the stage of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, is facing a severe water crisis: 16 million people lack access to clean water in the country, according to UNICEF. “What is worse than not having the most basic human right, water?” […]
NZ Boycotters Ridicule Israeli Court Fine for Lorde Cancellation
Israel yesterday ordered two New Zealand activists to pay 45,000 shekels ($12,000) in damages for persuading pop-star Lorde to cancel her concert in Tel Aviv. The decision was handed by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court and based on Israel’s 2011 anti-BDS law, under which anyone who calls for a boycott of Israel or an Israeli institution […]
On not Writing Recommendation Letters for the Occupiers in Palestinian Territories
An Open Letter to the University of Michigan on Palestine | – My colleague John Cheney-Lippold in the American Culture Department of the University of Michigan has been disciplined by the Colleges of Letters, Sciences and Arts for declining to write a recommendation letter for a student to do summer study at Tel Aviv University. […]
End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia until Fate of Dissident Journalist is Known: Human Rights Watch
The world wants to know: #WhereisJamal Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman should immediately release all evidence and information Saudi Arabia holds regarding the status of the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Human Rights Watch said today. Khashoggi, 59, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, and […]
Did Islam grow up as a Reaction to the Survival of Paganism in the Eastern Roman Empire?
Both the Qur’an and later Muslim sources indicate that there were controversies in Muhammad’s home town of Mecca (and perhaps elsewhere in the Near East) that began some three or four years after his initial experience of revelation in 610. If Muhammad did keep his teachings secret 610-613, then it was sometime after he began […]
Israel’s Illegal Blockade of Palestinian Civilians in Gaza has doubled Unemployment to 50%
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The General Federation of Palestinian Labor Unions reported, on Thursday, that the unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has doubled since Israel imposed a land, sea and air blockade 12 years ago. The federation said, in a statement, that while the unemployment rate had reached 27.2% before the blockade, it […]
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