By Ned Rosch | – My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people. | – (Yes! Magazine) – Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism is a powerful collection of 40 essays by Jews from diverse backgrounds. Each describes a personal journey from a Zionist worldview to activism in solidarity […]
The Fuel for Global Rivalries, Iran to Venezuela: They’re All Wars for Oil!
By John Foster | – (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Monitor) – When we talk about today’s geopolitical hotspots, we need to talk about petroleum AT THE UN General Assembly in 2018, Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl broke an unwrit-ten taboo by talking about oil and war. “The recent wars imposed on the Middle East […]
300 Former Prosecutors: Multiple Felony Counts of Obstruction against Trump in Mueller Report
STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS (Medium.com) – We are former federal prosecutors. We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the federal system: as line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice. The offices in which we served were small, medium, and large; […]
Muslims need an Alternative Political Paradigm
By Muqtedar Khan | – I am pleased to announce the publication of my book Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan by Palgrave Macmillan publishing group My goal was nothing short of advancing an alternate to the paradigm of Islamic politics that Islamists have to offer today. It took more than four […]
Can Feminist Foreign Policy make us More Secure and our Societies more Just?
By Kristina Lunz, Nina Bernarding | – ( Heinrich Boll Stiftung) – Introduction: Kristina Lunz and Nina Bernarding, who are leading the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany explain why a peaceful world will remain an utopia without a feminist foreign policy. This article is part of our special on “Feminist Foreign Policy”. When […]
Landmark 1st Amendment Ruling striking down Texas Law Banning Israel Boycott won by CAIR
By Arsalan Bukhari | – WASHINGTON, D.C. (CAIR News Release) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today welcomed this afternoon’s landmark victory in CAIR’s First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of Bahia Amawi, the Texas speech language pathologist who lost her job because she refused to […]
Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows
News article by the Communications Team | – (Wellcome Sanger Institute) – Sanger Institute researchers have produced whole-genome sequences from skeletons discovered in a 13th Century burial pit in Sidon, Lebanon. The DNA sequences reveal that some of the dead were Crusaders, some were locals to the region, and some were decendents of mixed relationships […]
Trump’s Embrace of Netanyahu will Haunt the Middle East for Years
By Phyllis Bennis | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The flurry of favors the president did for Bibi could constrain U.S. policy — and hurt people in the region — for years to come. For Israelis, the questions had been hovering for months. Would the right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claim victory and a […]
It’s Not Just that Mosque Shooter’s Islamophobia That Scares Me — It’s the Media’s
By Domenica Ghanem | – (Institute for Policy Studies) – If we want to avoid another tragic day asking ourselves how this could happen, news organizations have to stop giving a platform to Islamophobic talking heads. When 50 people praying in a New Zealand mosque were gunned down and killed by a white supremacist, the […]








