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Archives for March 2019

Pentagon
No Exit:  America's Senior Generals and the Trap of Infinity Wars

No Exit: America’s Senior Generals and the Trap of Infinity Wars

William J. Astore

(Tomdispatch.com) – “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” boasted Julius Caesar, one of history’s great military captains. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed that famed saying when summing up the Obama administration’s military intervention in Libya in 2011 — with a small alteration. “We came, we saw, he died,” she said with […]

Featured
No, Mr. Milstein, Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib are not Muslim Brotherhood and you should be Ashamed

No, Mr. Milstein, Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib are not Muslim Brotherhood and you should be Ashamed

Juan Cole

Adam Milstein just tweeted that “the Muslim Brotherhood is in Congress,” enclosing a picture of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the two Muslim women in Congress. This while decent people are mourning the supremacist murder of 50 innocent Muslim worshipers in New Zealand, instigated by rhetoric like that of Milstein. The […]

Climate Change
How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum

How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum

The Conversation

By Harriet Thew | – As part of one of the largest environmental protests ever seen, over a million young people went on strike on Friday March 15 2019, calling for more ambitious action on climate change. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, a Swedish school girl who protested outside the Swedish parliament every Friday throughout 2018, […]

Far Right
Israeli Justice Minister Campaigns on "Fascism" Perfume that "Smells like Democracy"

Israeli Justice Minister Campaigns on “Fascism” Perfume that “Smells like Democracy”

contributors

Veteran journalist Noga Tarnopolsky comments at Twitter: If you like sexism with your Supreme Court bashing, Israeli Justice Min Ayelet Shaked has an ad in which she plays a fashion model, sprays herself with eau de fascism & fixes her sexy gaze on you & to say “I dunno. For me its the scent of […]

Far Right
N. Zealand Attack “Shows Blind Spot on White Nationalism”

N. Zealand Attack “Shows Blind Spot on White Nationalism”

AFP

by Qasim NAUMAN | – Hong Kong (AFP) – Brenton Tarrant was steeped in a neo-fascist, anti-Muslim ideology, according to a rambling “manifesto” he posted online before the massacre of 50 people at two mosques last week The carnage unleashed in Christchurch by a white supremacist has highlighted what analysts say is the global problem […]

al-Qaeda
New Zealand Attack plays into hands of Muslim Extremists

New Zealand Attack plays into hands of Muslim Extremists

AFP

By Michel MOUTOT | – Paris (AFP) – White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 50 people in the New Zealand mosque massacre in what he claimed was a blow against Muslim “invaders”, played into jihadist hands by following their strategy, experts say. From the Islamic State (IS) group to Al-Qaeda, jihadist groups […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Deprives Palestinians of Access to Clean Water to Favor Israeli Squatters: UN

Israel Deprives Palestinians of Access to Clean Water to Favor Israeli Squatters: UN

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A United Nations human rights investigator stressed that Israel is depriving millions of Palestinians of access to a regular supply of clean water while stripping their lands of minerals “in an apparent act of pillage,” on Monday. Michael Lynk, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said that Israel […]

Bill of Rights
When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Trump were actually acting as a president, he could and would tamp down the terrifying spread of hatred against Muslims that has resulted in several mass murders at mosques in the English-speaking world in recent years. All he would have to do is come out and say that ordinary […]

Far Right
Despite Crackdowns, White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi Videos Take Stubborn Root on YouTube

Despite Crackdowns, White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi Videos Take Stubborn Root on YouTube

ProPublica

By A.C. Thompson and Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, and Christopher Mathias, HuffPost | – The ideas in a treatise by Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman responsible for the massacres at two New Zealand mosques, are also circulating on many of the world’s most popular social media platforms. In his 74-page manifesto, Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman […]

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