Sami Mahroum | ( Project Syndicate) | – – DUBAI – In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, “Dr. Mahmoud,” to help the book’s Martian-raised protagonist make the transition to life in the United States. Stranger may be fiction, but Heinlein’s selection of a […]
Mideast Partition Plans won’t Bring Peace, just Imperial Social Engineering
By Laura Robson | (Informed Comment) | – – The idea that partition and population exchange might represent “solutions” to Middle Eastern conflict, long advocated by a wide variety of observers and commentators, is being put to the test. Diplomats and pundits alike have proposed the sectarian partition of both Syria and Iraq for years. […]
Can the Left Rebuild in the Deep South?
The Atlantic | (Video News Clip) | – – “Georgia’s sixth congressional district is a Republican stronghold—a Democrat hasn’t won in nearly 40 years. Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide, is trying to change that. Backed by anti-Trump forces across the country, Ossoff has raised a striking 8.3 million dollars and […]
Was US Airstrike on Syrian Mosque a War Crime?
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington, DC) – United States forces appear to have failed to take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in a March 16, 2017 strike that killed at least 38 people in western Aleppo in Syria, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 16-page report, “Attack on […]
Trump White House Taking “Marching Orders” from Hundreds of CEOs: Report
Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – One of every five of the corporate executives who met with the Trump administration within the first 100 days represented the banking or financial sector’ “President Trump not only has betrayed the promises of candidate Trump by failing to break up the special-interest monopoly […]
Over 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger Strike
TeleSur | – – “Salutes of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Glory to the martyrs. Freedom for the prisoners of freedom,” stated the PFLP in support of the strikers. On Palestinian Prisoner’s Day Monday, hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons staged a mass hunger strike, continuing the decades-long resistance of prisoners in the apartheid state. Ma’an News Agency reported […]
Neoconservatives almost Giddy over Trump Syria Strike
By Jim Lobe | FPIF | (Originally published in Lobelog) | – – Many architects of the Iraq War openly hope Trump will go further in pursuing regime change in Syria — and then Iran. After the pre-dawn cruise-missile strike against Syria’s al-Shayrat airfield, neoconservative hawks, many of whom beat the drums for war in […]
Can a New Era of Progressive Protest Revolutionize our values in Age of Trump?
By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You could hear the deep sadness in the preacher’s voice as he named “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” With those words, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., launched a scathing indictment of America’s war in Vietnam. It was […]
Everyone could celebrate Easter in Jerusalem except Palestinian Christians
By IMEMC. | – – Thousands of Christian followers of the Orthodox and Catholic faiths from all over the world, gathering at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City, celebrated Easter Holy Saturday with the emergence of the holy fire from the location of the tomb believed to be that of Jesus […]
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