United Nations, NYC | AFP | – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has vowed to fight any bid by the Palestinians to seek full membership in the United Nations Israel has vowed to work with the United States to block a bid by the Palestinians for full membership in the United Nations, […]
Archives for December 2018
Shiite Parties Decry Trump’s ‘Arrogant’ and ‘Disdainful’ Visit to Iraq, Ignoring Iraqis
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s surprise visit to a US military base in Iraq on the day after Christmas has provoked a strong critique among some Iraqis, who mind that Trump slipped in and out to visit the Ain al-Assad base in al-Anbar Province but did not bother to meet with any Iraqi officials. […]
Glowing NY Times Review of Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’
The New York Times Book Review has a glowing review of my new book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, calling it ‘erudite,’ ‘informative’ and ‘ambitiously revisionist.’ Mustafa Akyol writes in his review, “Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins” “Cole’s book, “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires,” is not just eruditely […]
Are Massive Protests Sudan’s ‘Arab Spring’?
With a video report by Aljazeera English At least 3 Sudanese protesters were wounded by gunshots yesterday when security forces dispersed rallies in the capital, after a week of demonstrations against President Omar Al-Bashir’s three-decade rule, as reported on Reuters. Witnesses told Reuters that 3 protesters were wounded by gunshots, one of them in the […]
How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz
Jazz, the art form dubbed ‘ America’s Classical Music’ by pianist and composer Dr. Billy Taylor, has garnered a world-wide following in the century since its birth in New Orleans and other cities. Rooted in the African-American experience, jazz has attracted practitioners and listeners from all ethnic groups, religions and nationalities. And from a uniquely […]
America’s Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials
By Aviva Rutkin | – For a look back at 2018, I’d like to slow down and draw attention to a few stories that looked at the big picture. How is the U.S. changing, on a grand and gradual scale? How are Americans different than they were last year, or last decade, or last century? […]
Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister will apply for Palestine’s status as a full member of the United Nations. Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Riyad Malki announced Wednesday that the occupied country would initiate an application to gain full membership at the United Nations. Malki said that he would initiate an application seeking to upgrade Palestine’s […]
Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – 2018 was in many ways a turning point for the position of Israel in the system of Western, liberal, capitalist democracies. It had long sat uneasily among France, Britain, and the United States, inasmuch as it was founded on a formal racial supremacist principle that Jews must rule the state. […]
Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules
( Tomdispatch.com) – Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the strange combination of the two-year-old Mueller investigation and the good judgment of certain Trump appointees, the proverbial “adults in the room.” Remember that crew? It once included Secretary of State […]
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