Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I confess that I was weeping uncontrollably as I posted the videos and the AFP wire service story on the memorial service in Christchurch, New Zealand for the 50 shot dead in a horrific Islamophobic massacre. I’m a big Polynesia fan and the Maori music is so haunting and beautiful. […]
Archives for March 2019
Muslim Christchurch survivor tells remembrance service: ‘I choose peace’
by Chris FOLEY | – Christchurch (AFP) – A Maori lament echoed across Christchurch Friday as a survivor of the New Zealand mosque attacks told a national remembrance service he had forgiven the gunman responsible for the racist massacre that took his wife, and shocked the world. “I am choosing peace and I have forgiven,” […]
Israeli Snipers Kill 40 Children, send 3,000 to Hospital in Year of Gaza Border Protests
Amman (AFP) – Around 40 children have been killed and many injured in one year of demonstrations along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the UN said Thursday, calling for an “urgent de-escalation”. Thousands of Palestinians have gathered at least weekly along the border in protests . . . Demonstrators are calling for […]
Naked Truth: The Grifter-in-Chief will Leave us Bankrupt and Holding the Bag
(Tomdispatch.com) – Recently, I did something rare in my life. Over a long weekend, I took a few days away and almost uniquely — I might even say miraculously — never saw Donald Trump’s face, since I didn’t watch TV and barely checked the news. They were admittedly terrible days in which 50 people were […]
Israeli Embrace of War-Crimes Tactics Leaves 200 Dead, Thousands of Largely Peaceful Gaza Protesters Disabled
By Joe Dyke | – Gaza City (AFP) – A year ago, Ezzedine al-Baz’s decision to skip work and join tens of thousands at the first day of protests along the Gaza-Israel border nearly cost him his life. Baz, then 29, said he had been standing a couple of hundred metres from the border fence […]
How Trump Just Gave Alabama to Iraq by Giving Syrian Golan to Israel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration’s illegal and unilateral recognition of Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights is an unfortunate return to the international jungle of the 1930s and 1940s, when Hitler annexed the Sudetenland and Mussolini annexed Nice from France. Trump’s policy is Nazi law, as so many of his policies […]
Israel Imposes Collective Punishment on Gaza Civilians Leaves Dozens Homeless after Tel Aviv Strikes
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing, Mufid al-Hasayneh, said that recent Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip left 30 residential structures completely destroyed, and at least 500 other others partially damaged.Hasayneh said, in a statement, that the ministry’s engineers and technicians counted the damages and reopen roads closed by […]
PLO’s Erekat: ‘Israeli Annexation of the West Bank up next’
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Secretary General of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said in a tweet on his official Twitter account, on Wednesday, that the “annexation of the West Bank will be the next step” in the recent series of decisions taken by the United States administration and the Israeli government against […]
Trump is Coming for your Health Care, Will Re-institute Exclusion for Pre-Existing Conditions
By Sebastian Smith Washington, DC (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s administration vowed Tuesday to see Obamacare — a massive, but controversial reform intended to bring health care to more Americans — struck down. Top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said the policy, which became law after a fierce legislative battle under then president Barack Obama, […]
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