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Archives for February 2019

Islamophobia
GOP Rep's Tweet seen as Racist toward Muslim-American Congresswoman (Young Turks)

GOP Rep’s Tweet seen as Racist toward Muslim-American Congresswoman (Young Turks)

The Young Turks

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | The Young Turks | – The Young Turks: “Republican’s Tweet seeen as Racist On Twitter” Lee Zeldin let his bigotry show on Twitter. A Republican congressman was angered when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Muslim and a Somali-American, was chosen to be on a committee with oversight on U.S.foreign […]

Drugs
Not at the Border: The Real Nat'l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Not at the Border: The Real Nat’l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids

Rajan Menon

(Tomdispatch.com) – President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to declare a national emergency if Congress refuses to pony up $5.7 billion to build the “great, great wall” he promised his base during the 2016 election campaign. In an apocalyptic televised address early in January, he even warned — falsely, as fact checkers revealed during the […]

Israel/ Palestine
UN: Israeli Forces’ Violence Interfering in Palestinian Children’s Safe Access to Education

UN: Israeli Forces’ Violence Interfering in Palestinian Children’s Safe Access to Education

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — United Nations officials from UNICEF and UNESCO expressed deep concern by rise in ongoing Israeli interference in Palestinian schools. The Humanitarian Coordinator, Jamie McGoldrick, UNICEF Special Representative, Genevieve Boutin, and UNESCO in a joint statement, “As the second school term resumes in the State of Palestine, we remain deeply concerned by the […]

Saudi Arabia
Top Ten Reasons Saudi Women are Running away from their Country

Top Ten Reasons Saudi Women are Running away from their Country

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi woman who managed to successfully flee her allegedly abusive family, has shed new light on the countless women trapped under the abusive male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch said today. Women face systematic discrimination and are left exposed to domestic violence under the […]

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