2019

Christchurch (AFP) – The mosques were packed with worshippers gathering for Friday afternoon prayers, and members of the Bangladesh cricket team were arriving when the shooter opened fire. Local media reported at least nine people were dead and the South Island city was placed in lockdown as police hunted for an “active shooter.” “This is […]

Syria

The Syrian Civil War Exiled Millions and Produced ISIL; But how did it Start?

The Conversation

By Wendy Pearlman | – Amid headlines about the Islamic State group and photographs of rubble, it can be easy to forget that the Syrian war began as a nonviolent uprising. March 15, the uprising’s eighth anniversary, serves as a reminder that any enduring end to the Syrian conflict must address the grievances and aspirations […]

Climate Crisis

Can Global Youth Revolt force the Trump Generation to tackle Climate Crisis?

Tomdispatch

By Frida Berrigan | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – Kids are taking over the streets in other countries, rallying and chanting and refusing to go to school one day a week. Young people across the world are striking to draw attention to the ravages of climate change. They are demanding — with their bodies and their […]

Bernie Sanders

In Historic Rebuke to Trump, Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen

Juan Cole

The US Senate voted 54 to 46 to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and to end US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. The Yemen War has involved extensive war crimes, in which the US is complicit. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the Saudis launched the war in spring […]

Plutocracy

Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities’ Pay to Play Scandal

AFP

By Thomas URBAIN New York (AFP) – The scandal of parents paying to cheat their children’s way into elite US universities has put a harsh spotlight on the ultra-competitive college admissions process, in which the haves hold a massive advantage over the have-nots. Thirty-three wealthy parents — financiers, lawyers, and two famous actresses among them […]

Egypt

What do Lonely Hearts Columns tell us about Social Crises in the Arab World?

contributors

By Andrea Rugh | – Recently an article by N. A. Hussein, “No Money; No Marriage” highlighted the costliness of marriage in Egypt. A problem long in the making, social issues like this rarely reach public attention until they are full blown crises. In this case, young men are calling for a boycott of marriage […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Year of the People: The Untold Story of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor) – What is the ‘Great March of Return’ but a people attempting to reclaim their role, and be recognised and heard in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine? Much has been said about what the popular mobilisation in Gaza, which began on March 30, 2018, represents. Sympathetic views rightly understood the […]

Climate Crisis

Could the Climate Crisis Spark a Global Financial Meltdown Worse than 2008?

The Conversation

By Korey Pasch | – The dire climate change situation continues to make headlines and inspire actions like the Sunrise Movement. Recently, United States congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey pushed the debate about addressing climate change forward by introducing resolutions for a Green New Deal to transform the American economy. The Green New […]

Archaeology

Dear Tucker Carlson: Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when “White Men” were Painting themselves Blue