Ankara (AFP) – Turkey’s deal to buy Russian S-400 missile defence systems had “nothing to do” with the security of the US, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday after a Pentagon warning. He was speaking a day after Washington warned Ankara of “grave consequences” should the deal go ahead. “It is very clear why Turkey […]
Archives for March 2019
In Weekly Gaza Fish-in-Barrel Shoot, Israeli Army Kills One Youth, Injures 48 (15 Children)
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed at least one Palestinian and injured 48 others, including four paramedics and two journalists, as they suppressed “The Great March of Return” weekly protests across the eastern border fence of the besieged Gaza Strip, on its 50th Friday. Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in […]
What does the World look like from Somalia? Explaining why Ilhan Omar Scares the Horses in DC
By Juan Cole | – Few Americans remember that the United States colonized the Philippines and virtually no one but the more historically conscious Filipinos remember how destructive the initial military occupation was, with thousands killed by US troops and hundreds of thousands killed by disease and exposure as a result of the brutality with […]
Why Critics of the Green New Deal are Just Plain Wrong
By Kyla Tienhaara | – Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about the (new) Green New Deal. It’s an ambitious plan to make America carbon-neutral — as well as more equitable — in a mere 10 years. Although the Green New Deal resolution that will be voted on in the U.S. Senate is likely to […]
Forgotten Palestinian Women of Jerusalem Struggling for their Rights as World Commemorated Women
On International Women’s Rights Day, which falls on 8 March every year, we need to take a moment to look at whether all women are able to exercise all of their rights around the world. Are women’s rights limited to specific countries, while those elsewhere continue to suffer from oppression and discrimination? Are there women […]
On Int’l Women’s Day, Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Assault Women of the Wailing Wall
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox youths violently disrupted a Women of the Wall prayer service, on Friday, forcing the multi-denominational feminist group to move to another location after two of its members sustained injuries near the Western Wall. According to the spokesperson of Women of the Wall, the group was holding an anniversary prayer […]
For Int’l Women’s Day: An Arabian Woman of Late Antiquity Prays to Goddesses for Peace
For Int’l Women’s Day, via OCIANA a Safaitic Arabic inscription [c. 1-400 AD], by a wealthy woman calling on two goddesses for peace: “By Shamat daughter of Sar is the mule [owned] and O {Shahqam} —-m—- [and] Allat, [grant] {security} [for] the people of al-Ḍaf.” This inscription from the first centuries after Christ in Arabia […]
Millionaire “Justice”: 5 Petty Shoplifting Charges sentenced more harshly than Manafort’s Hiding Millions
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was given 47 months in prison for his crimes on Thursday, in a jaw-dropping ruling that treated him as a good family man without priors. He only didn’t have priors because white collar criminals are so coddled in an American firmly under the thumb of […]
UN Human Rights Council seeks Freedom for Saudi Women Activists, Justice for Khashoggi
Geneva (Human Rights Watch) – A joint statement by 36 countries on March 7, 2019 calling on Saudi Arabia to improve its human rights record was a landmark step toward justice and accountability, Human Rights Watch said today. The statement, delivered by Iceland at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, condemns the murder […]
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