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Archives for March 2019

Climate Change
Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

AFP

A United Nations study in 2018 found that 95 percent of Chile’s 24,100 glaciers had receded

Islamophobia
Muslims are Biggest Victims of Terror Globally, and Extremists Share Much in Common

Muslims are Biggest Victims of Terror Globally, and Extremists Share Much in Common

The Conversation

On the international stage we need to stand up against the beliefs that underpin right-wing extremism

Featured
Rupert Murdoch's Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter's Video

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter’s Video

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – World-straddling press lord Rupert Murdoch’s media is under pressure in the wake of the massacre of 50 worshipers by a white supremacist terrorist at a Christchurch mosque. Murdoch’s Fox News is known for pushing white nationalist themes and for demonizing Muslims, and his Sky News Australia is not very different. […]

Israel/ Palestine
6 Palestinians Displaced by Israeli Policy to New Zealand Murdered by White Nationalist

6 Palestinians Displaced by Israeli Policy to New Zealand Murdered by White Nationalist

Maan News Agency

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates declared, on Saturday, that through the Palestinian embassy in Australia’s contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand, although not officially, that six Palestinians were killed and six others were injured in the mass shooting targeting two mosques in Christchurch City, in […]

Bangladesh
Bangladesh to Exile 100K Rohingya Refugees to an Island "Prison"

Bangladesh to Exile 100K Rohingya Refugees to an Island “Prison”

Human Rights Watch

Dumping a battered and traumatized people on Bhasan Char to face yet another threat to their survival is not a solution.

Syria
Top Five Reasons the Syrian Revolution isn't Actually Over

Top Five Reasons the Syrian Revolution isn’t Actually Over

The Conversation

Displaced persons are eager to continue that most revolutionary act of building dignified lives

Islamophobia
New Zealand Mosque Survivor says Koran Bookshelf Saved Him

New Zealand Mosque Survivor says Koran Bookshelf Saved Him

AFP

Soon the Australian was inside the prayer hall, pumping round after round into the defenceless worshippers.

Featured
Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting:  The  Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

Dear Sen. Anning re: Mosque Shooting: The Qur’an Forbids Murder and Commands Peacemaking

Juan Cole

the servants of the All-Merciful who walk humbly upon the earth—and when the unruly taunt them, they reply, ‘Peace!’

Far Right
Christchurch Mosque Shootings must End Unconcern with Right-wing Terrorism

Christchurch Mosque Shootings must End Unconcern with Right-wing Terrorism

The Conversation

I looked at what some New Zealanders were saying online. It did not take long to discover the presence of hateful and anti-Muslim comments

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