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Archives for April 2020

Corruption
Trump, Inc.: How Jared Kushner is Tackling White House Coronavirus Response -- Without Any Evident Experience

Trump, Inc.: How Jared Kushner is Tackling White House Coronavirus Response — Without Any Evident Experience

ProPublica

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC | – This story was co-published with WNYC. (ProPublica) – On April 2, Jared Kushner uncharacteristically took to the podium to speak at the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing. He’d been given the task, he said, of assisting Vice President Mike Pence’s Coronavirus Task Force with supply chain issues. “The president,” […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Finally Formed a Government: One Dedicated to Apartheid and Illegally Annexing Palestine

Israel Finally Formed a Government: One Dedicated to Apartheid and Illegally Annexing Palestine

Kamel Hawwash

( Middle East Monitor ) – When it comes to Israel, the international community has once again been exposed for the double standards and hypocrisy it reserves to support the rogue state. Many so-called western democracies have fallen over each other to offer congratulations to an Apartheid state for forming a government that will entrench […]

Islam
Everything you Always wanted to Know about Muslim Fasting Month of Ramadan *But were Afraid to Ask

Everything you Always wanted to Know about Muslim Fasting Month of Ramadan *But were Afraid to Ask

The Conversation

By Mohammad Hassan Khalil | – Editor’s note: Mohammad Hassan Khalil, associate professor of religious studies and director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University, answers six questions about the significance of the Muslim month of fasting. 1. Why is Ramadan called Ramadan? Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, […]

Donald Trump
Trump failed to vanquish Coronavirus with Hot Air, now wants to "shoot down" tiny Iranian Skiffs

Trump failed to vanquish Coronavirus with Hot Air, now wants to “shoot down” tiny Iranian Skiffs

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The diarist and attorney James Boswell recorded that the writer Samuel Johnson remarked on the evening of April 7, 1775 that “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” He wasn’t condemning a healthy love of country but the manipulation of public opinion for narrow sectional purposes. Johnson might observe […]

Donald Trump
Palestinians aren't Surprised at Trump's Malign Incompetence on Coronavirus: He already Ruined their Lives

Palestinians aren’t Surprised at Trump’s Malign Incompetence on Coronavirus: He already Ruined their Lives

Nooran Alhamdan

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – If you’re an American liberal wondering how Trump can cut funding to the World Health Organization during a global pandemic, just ask Palestinians how the majority of Americans (and the world) responded when Trump cut aid to refugees under the guise of “corruption” to force political capitulation. That’s […]

Donald Trump
The Scum of all Fears: America declines the Trump Administration's Invitation to Die

The Scum of all Fears: America declines the Trump Administration’s Invitation to Die

David Faris

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – President Trump, facing the prospect of possibly the worst electoral environment ever to face an incumbent president, is borrowing a page from the last Republican administration, the one that ended with a sitting president so universally reviled that he decided to skip his own party’s nominating convention. America’s 45th […]

Arab World
With Oil Cratering and Saudis facing Mountain of Debt, what Future for Arab World with Coronavirus?

With Oil Cratering and Saudis facing Mountain of Debt, what Future for Arab World with Coronavirus?

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – Oil prices have hit zero. Yes, oil was “sold” this week with producers only asking buyers to pay for transporting it to its final destination. This is the worst collapse in oil markets in history; it is unprecedented for oil to lose 94 per cent of its value in […]

Epidemics
The Curse of Casteism in a Plague Year: Rightwing Indian Gov't AWOL as Lockdown devastates Poor, Dalits

The Curse of Casteism in a Plague Year: Rightwing Indian Gov’t AWOL as Lockdown devastates Poor, Dalits

contributors

By Sanjana Krishnan and Rahul Jambhulkar | – As we rose to another day of peaceful quarantine in the West, we received a message from India. It was an urgent plea to help 80 families of Dalit (ex-untouchable) daily wage earners in an urban slum in Nagpur city in Central India. The families had run […]

Donald Trump
Amid Trump's Immigration ban, Muslim-Americans step up on Covid-19 to donate Masks, PPE, to Hospitals and to help Unemployed, Homeless

Amid Trump’s Immigration ban, Muslim-Americans step up on Covid-19 to donate Masks, PPE, to Hospitals and to help Unemployed, Homeless

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Muslim-Americans have stepped up to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus in ways that may not be apparent from watching cable television. They are disproportionately a first- and second-generation American community who have faced discrimination at Trump’s hands, and are among the targets of his two-month ban on […]

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