Bangladesh, and its environment, has been struggling to accommodate over 1 million Rohingya refugees who have fled state violence in Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist-majority country. More than 900,000 Rohingya live in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, mostly in camps, according to the United Nations. For decades, Cox’s Bazar, a strip of land between Myanmar and the […]
Archives for December 2018
A New Middle East: Winners and Losers from Trump’s Abrupt Syria Withdrawal
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump shook up the Washington establishment and Middle Eastern and world politics on Wednesday by abruptly announcing by Tweet a full and immediate withdrawal of US military forces from northeast Syria. Trump’s motives for what he does are never easy to fathom. He may have been driven by a desire […]
Why Politics in 2019 will have a Lot More Backbone
(Otherwords.org) – As Democratic leaders sharpen their challenge to President Trump, movement leaders are stepping up to challenge the party leadership. By Tracey L. Rogers | December 19, 2018 As I reflect on the controversies that plagued the Trump administration throughout 2018, the unforeseen political power plays that shocked our nation, and the party stalemates […]
Trump Leaves Syria, then Turkey Announces $3.5 bn Patriot Missile Buy
By Shaun Tandon | – Washington (AFP) – The United States said Wednesday it approved the sale of $3.5 billion in missiles to Turkey, offering an ultimatum after US outrage over the NATO ally’s plans to buy from Russia. The announcement came as President Donald Trump said that US forces would withdraw from neighboring Syria, […]
Islamophobia & the Misuse of History: Isaiah 29 and Attacks on my “Muhammad: Prophet of Peace”
When I wrote Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires, and published it with a trade press, I knew what I was doing. The book is history, and I genuinely had an open mind when I approached the writing of it. But trade publications seek to reach the wider public, and it was […]
The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”
<p>A week into the 2018 UN climate change conference that convened in Poland, The New York Times’ quote of the day read: “The biggest threats to the planet are the lack of U.S. climate leadership at home and the unwillingness of the U.S. to engage with China.” <i>The biggest threats to the planet</i>! Yet not […]
What did Flynn Know about Russian ties to Trump and When did he Know it?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Disgraced former National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, had his sentencing postponed until March on Tuesday after Judge Emmett Sullivan raked him over the coals for lying to the FBI in the White House and for intimating that he was not really guilty and had been entrapped by […]
Trump Admin. Relents, will Waive Muslim Ban to let Yemeni Mother see Dying Son
San Francisco, CA | AFP | Shaima Swileh, a native of Yemen, was granted a US visa to visit her dying two-year-old son Abdullah Hassan, a US citizen like his father Ali — both of whom are picture here at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on December 16, 2018 A mother from Yemen was […]
Little Jakelin’s Death in Border Patrol Site a ‘Systemic Failure’: Congressman
Washington, United States | AFP | – The US lawmaker who led a delegation to New Mexico Tuesday to look into the death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl in US Border Patrol custody blamed the tragedy on glaring systematic failures. Jakelin Caal died last week in hospital in El Paso, Texas, after being arrested with […]
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