By Kay Armin Serjoie and Marc Jourdier | – Tehran (AFP) – The victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran was an earthquake that upended the political order in the Middle East, and the aftershocks are still being felt 40 years later. When Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted the shah’s last government in February […]
Archives for February 2019
A Well-Regulated Militia in the Hands of an Out-of-Control President: Is Nat’l Guard his Toy?
(Tomdispatch.com) – A young friend is seriously considering joining her state’s National Guard. She’s a world-class athlete, but also a working-class woman from a rural background competing in a rich person’s sport. Between seasons, she works for a local farm and auctioneer to put together the money for equipment and travel. Each season, raising the […]
Climate Emergency: Australian Judge Strikes down Coal Mine in Part because of its Carbon Emissions
Informed Comment (Ann Arbor) – In what is likely to be the first of many such rulings, an Australian court has ruled against a coal mine in part on grounds of the environmental damage that burning coal does by contributing to the climate emergency. Burning coal releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a powerful greenhouse […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Ethics Cmte Play ‘How to Get away w/ Murder’ in US Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | (Video Clip) – “Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s full hearing on U.S. campaign finance laws, corruption, PACs, and why America’s system is ‘fundamentally broken’.” Channel 4 News: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on ‘fundamentally broken’ US finance laws – full speech”
Saudi Arabia Creates App to Track Women’s Movements
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Saudi Arabia has created an application that allows male guardians to track and prevent women from travelling due to the rise in the number of women recently fleeing the ultra-conservative kingdom. The app, called Absher, meaning “Good Tidings” in Arabic, has been in operation for several years, however, it has only recently […]
Israeli Ministers Sign Petition to Settle 2 Million Israelis in Palestinian West Bank
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israeli ministers and senior officials from the Likud political party and other right-wing parties have signed a petition to settle two million Jews across the occupied West Bank. Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and ministers Gilad Erdan, Miri Regev, Yisrael Katz of the Likud party, Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett […]
Trump says ‘it’s time’ to end Afghan war – can he?
By Thomas WATKINS | – Washington, DC (AFP) – After 17 years, countless thousands of civilian and military deaths, and more than $1 trillion in US cash, President Donald Trump has declared that “it’s time” to end the Afghanistan war. Touting talks with the Taliban, Trump in his State of the Union address on Tuesday […]
Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Death to America’ means US Rulers, not American Public
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The clerical Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said Friday on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, that Iran has good relations with all the countries of the world. He observed that he does not urge breaking relations with any European country. “The slogan ‘Death to America,’” he said, […]
‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’
By Nandini Archer | – (OpenDemocracy.net) – From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being a Muslim and a feminist’. “Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes on the one hand and Islamic fundamentalists on the other”, Suri Kempe, an outspoken rights activist from Malaysia, told […]
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