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African-Americans
IS GOP aiming for 21st Century White Apartheid in America?

IS GOP aiming for 21st Century White Apartheid in America?

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Arun Gupta | ( TeleSur ) | – – To compete on a national level the Republican right is creating a system of intersectional apartheid. No matter what happens with Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency, the Republican Party has a bright future as a party of patriarchal white nationalism. Its grip on white support […]

Islam-hatred
This Muslim American Life, between Trump and Aziz Ansari:  Moustafa Bayoumi Is a Scribe on a Quest

This Muslim American Life, between Trump and Aziz Ansari: Moustafa Bayoumi Is a Scribe on a Quest

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by Neda Simaika and Raihan Faroqui | (informed Comment) | – – The award-winning author and professor of English at Brooklyn College (CUNY), Moustafa Bayoumi, discusses the fight to protect American values for all people (including Muslim Americans), a healthy dose of imagination, and the Netflix original series, Master of None. Q. In your recent […]

Militarization
The Euphemisms of War and Covering up American Military Failure

The Euphemisms of War and Covering up American Military Failure

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By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Introduction | By Tom Engelhardt | – – At the moment, there are a maximum of 3,870 U.S. military personnel (or 7,740 actual boots on the ground) in Iraq supporting the war against the Islamic State.  That’s the “official cap” imposed by the Obama administration, […]

Israel/ Palestine
US Slams Israel over Extrajudicial Killings, Torture & Racism then Meekly offers extra Billions

US Slams Israel over Extrajudicial Killings, Torture & Racism then Meekly offers extra Billions

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TeleSur In a rare move by Washington, the 2016 U.S. report on human rights said Israel unlawfully killed over 70 Palestinians and tries minors in military courts. The United States accused Israeli Defense Forces of “excessive use of force” in the Palestinian territories, and “arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often with impunity,” as […]

Iraq
Fall of Iraq, Rise of Sunnistan?  Sunni Politicians In Washington Promote Idea of Partition and a Sunni Region

Fall of Iraq, Rise of Sunnistan? Sunni Politicians In Washington Promote Idea of Partition and a Sunni Region

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Mazin Sahib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Leading Sunni Muslim politicians have opened an office in Washington to represent Sunni interests. There’s talk of an autonomous Sunni region again as a result. But other Sunni MPs say its all nonsense. In Dhuluiya victims of the IS group demanded that families associated with IS […]

censorship
Turkey's Pres. Erdogan demands Germany prosecute comedian over satirical poem

Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan demands Germany prosecute comedian over satirical poem

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RT | (Video News Report) | – – “Turkey has made a formal request to the German government to prosecute a TV comedian over a crude poem about the Turkish President.” RT: “Erdogan demands Germany prosecute comedian over satirical poem”

Islam-hatred
American Muslims Challenge #AboutUsWithoutUs by Running for Office

American Muslims Challenge #AboutUsWithoutUs by Running for Office

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Written by Bridge Initiative Team | – – An important hashtag has been circulating on Twitter for the past few weeks. #AboutUsWithoutUs. #AboutUsWithoutUs seeks to reorient national conversations about Muslim Americans to one that includes Muslim American voices in policy discussions. This is a critical distinction because Muslim Americans have largely been silent stakeholders to […]

Bernie Sanders
Sanders joins Striking Verizon Workers: says to CEOs, "I welcome their Contempt"

Sanders joins Striking Verizon Workers: says to CEOs, “I welcome their Contempt”

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TeleSur The senator from Vermont thanked the striking workers for “standing up for justice against corporate greed.” Nearly 40,000 Verizon Communications workers walked off the job Wednesday and were joined by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as they protested a lack of progress in contracts talks more than eight months after their agreements with […]

Israel/ Palestine
Erekat: Escalation of Israeli squatter settlement construction a 'war crime'

Erekat: Escalation of Israeli squatter settlement construction a ‘war crime’

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat denounced on Wednesday recent Israeli plans to expand illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, calling it a “war crime.” “The continued Israeli colonization of Palestine is a war crime under international law,” Erekat said in a statement. […]

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