By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – WHERE are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill. – Edgar Lee Masters, “The Hill,” Spoon River Anthology Since the election, many observers have rightly worried […]
Image of the Day: Persian Lady in Green, 1600
British Museum | Safavid Painting | – – Painting: Portrait of a Lady in Green, Iran, 1600 British Museum Description: Recto Painting. Portrait of a lady in green. Ascribed to Riza-yi Abbasi. Tempera and gold ink on paper. Producer name: Formerly attributed to: Riza-yi ‘Abbasi (falsely) School/style: Persian School/Style term details Culture/period: Persian Date: 1600 […]
Immigrant Cali Sikhs open Temples to Oroville Dam Refugees
TeleSur | – – At least seven Sikh temples opened their doors to evacuees. "DO NOT TRAVEL NORTH TOWARD OROVILLE," was the message the Yuba County Office of Emergency Services blasted on its Twitter account Sunday. It was the warning issued to the nearly 200,000 people in Northern California who were told to evacuate that […]
Israeli Gov’t Secretly funding illegal squatter Settlements in Palestine: Haaretz
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The recently dismantled illegal settlement outpost of Amona was funded through a million-dollar loan from the Israeli government, a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Monday, further blurring the distinction between settlements recognized and unrecognized by Israel. Israeli children at the now dismantled illegal settlement […]
Al-Qaeda Rising? After Aleppo defeat, Syrian Rebels turn on Each other
By David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | – – 2017, it seems, will be no less chaotic than its predecessor — an aphorism made plain by a mere glance at the state of international politics extending from Paris to Washington. But nowhere is this trend clearer than in that most tumultuous of countries, Syria. […]
SNL Spicey on ‘Extreme Vetting’: The Blondes Get In
NBC | Saturday Night Live Cold Open Skit | – – “Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) and Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) take questions from the press (Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer Zamata, Cecily Strong, Kyle Mooney).” SNL: “Sean Spicer Press Conference Cold Open – SNL”
Turkey’s Long Nightmare: Remembering the Night of the Coup
Cüneyt Özdemir | (Duke University Middle East Studies Center | – – Cüneyt Özdemir is a columnist and investigative journalist with 28 years experience reporting from Turkey and the Middle East. An icon of Turkish media, he is host of the weekly current events program 5N1K, the author of thirteen books on politics and popular […]
Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorists’ will harm Democracy at home and Abroad
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington, DC) – A US government designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, which the Trump administration is reportedly considering, would threaten the rights to association of Muslim groups in the United States. Such a designation would also undermine the ability of the Muslim Brotherhood’s members […]
Is the answer to Alt-NeoNazism Bernie’s Democratic Socialism?
TeleSur | – – Maria Svart of DSA speaks to teleSUR about how her organization is using Sanders’ vision to fight Trump and neoliberalism within the Democratic party. While the U.S. has lost its chance at having arguably its first ever progressive president, Bernie Sanders, one group wants to capitalize on his political revolution and […]
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