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Archives for April 2019

Climate Change
Feeding us in a Climate Friendly Way requires Reducing Livestock

Feeding us in a Climate Friendly Way requires Reducing Livestock

Clean Energy Wire

( Clean Energy Wire) – Greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030 in the agriculture sector cannot be reached without implementing measures to reduce the livestock, according to a report by the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut), commissioned by environmental umbrella organisation Climate-Alliance. Gases that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere are called greenhouse gases (GHGs). […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump Admin. blocks Entry to US of Palestinian leader of Israel Boycott

Trump Admin. blocks Entry to US of Palestinian leader of Israel Boycott

Maan News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United States administration denied entry to Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, this week allegedly due to his political activities. The Arab American Institute (AII) said that Barghouti was barred from boarding a flight, on Wednesday, from Israel’s Ben […]

Featured
Republicans & Rupert Murdoch Created al-Qaeda when Ilhan Omar's Somalia upheld Scientific Socialism

Republicans & Rupert Murdoch Created al-Qaeda when Ilhan Omar’s Somalia upheld Scientific Socialism

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The dishonest smearing of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by the Rupert Murdoch press,including the New York Post and Fox Cable News, on which the despicable Trump piled on, contains more ironies than her defenders for the most part realize. Omar spoke at the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in […]

Sudan
Sudan's Revolution is vulnerable to Saudi & UAE Repression

Sudan’s Revolution is vulnerable to Saudi & UAE Repression

Jonathan Fenton-Harvey

(Informed Comment) – Impassioned protests in Sudan saw the downfall of 30-year-long President Omar Bashir on Thursday, in what may be considered a new wave of regional uprisings, as demonstrations look set to continue. Sudan’s events has already attracted much international attention, including from the United Nations, world powers and the African Union, showing its […]

journalism
Assange: Press Freedom Endangered by Charge of Conspiracy between Publisher and Source

Assange: Press Freedom Endangered by Charge of Conspiracy between Publisher and Source

Committee to Protect Journalists

(Committee to Protect Journalists) – New York, April 11, 2019–The Committee to Protect Journalists today said it was deeply concerned by the U.S. prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Authorities in the United Kingdom arrested Assange this morning at the Ecuadoran Embassy as part of an extradition agreement with the U.S., according to a statement […]

Muslim-Americans
Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse

Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse

The Conversation

By Saeed Ahmed Khan | – Most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim and that much of what they understand about Islam is from the media. It’s not surprising then to see the many misunderstandings that exist about Muslims. Some see them as outsiders and a threat to the American way of life and […]

Featured
Netanyahu's Reelection Further Dooms Millions of Palestinians to Decades of Statelessness, Denial of Basic Rights

Netanyahu’s Reelection Further Dooms Millions of Palestinians to Decades of Statelessness, Denial of Basic Rights

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The breathless headlines that the reelection in Israel of far right prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the fascist Likud Party has doomed the two state solution are wrong. The two state solution was doomed by the late 1990s, as Israel doubled its squatters in the Palestinian West Bank after the […]

journalism
Assange's Arrest means that any Journalist can be extradited to US  for Publishing the Truth

Assange’s Arrest means that any Journalist can be extradited to US for Publishing the Truth

Common Dreams

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday indicted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a “computer hacking conspiracy,” a charge some corporate talking heads and reporters immediately touted as evidence that journalism is not under threat. “Indictment of Assange charges him with hacking, not publishing, a crucial difference […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Likud PR company with Squatter Links boasts Secret Cameras Suppressed Arab-Israeli Turnout

Israel: Likud PR company with Squatter Links boasts Secret Cameras Suppressed Arab-Israeli Turnout

Middle East Monitor

An Israeli public relations firm has admitted that it was behind the Likud campaign to place secret cameras in Arab-Israeli polling stations during Tuesday’s election, boasting that the move caused low turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel. The Kaizler Inbar PR company said yesterday on its Facebook page that it had orchestrated the stunt, explaining: […]

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