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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

This anti-CAIR conspiracy theory is intended to deny the franchise to the 3.5 million Muslim-Americans

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

Well-established youth organisations can use their large networks and professional experience

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

Tweet, Video

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

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

AFP

I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess,” Trump said

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

New Zealand Attack plays into hands of Muslim Extremists

AFP

“IS had tried to radicalise the situation “by turning Western Muslims against the societies in which they live”

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

“There are some 20-25,000 new settlers a year.”

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

The skit was meant to promote the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews are hastening immigration to the U.S. as a way to replace white people

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