Gregory D. Foster | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Item: Two U.S. Navy patrol boats, with 10 sailors aboard, “stray” into Iranian territorial waters, and are apprehended and held by Iranian revolutionary guards, precipitating a 24-hour international incident involving negotiations at the highest levels of government to secure their release. The Pentagon offers conflicting […]
Israel returns to pre-Oslo policy of vast land confiscations
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel has reinstated a policy of confiscating vast swathes of Palestinian land for settlement expansion in a trend not seen since the pre-Oslo period in the 1980s, Peace Now reported Tuesday. The Israeli settlement watchdog pointed chiefly to a vast tract of Palestinian land south of […]
Will the Mideast’s Civil Wars Partition it into small Warring States?
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As civil wars and cross-border military conflicts continue to escalate in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq and Libya are in danger of breaking up —even as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues to make territorial gains in the […]
Here’s the Bernie Sanders Primary Day Speech Corporate News Blacked Out
Bernie Sanders | – – Bernie Sanders is speaking, but both CNN and MSNBC are ignoring him right now. pic.twitter.com/8jglLxxD4s — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 16, 2016 Bernie Sanders says he's doing something 'radical' in politics: "Telling the truth." https://t.co/n0FjvDY7Zi pic.twitter.com/Fw1LSwJ8EH — ABC News (@ABC) March 16, 2016 FULL | Bernie Sanders Phoenix Arizona Rally […]
Can Turkish Democracy survive Bombings, Ethnic Polarization?
By Cengiz Gunes | (The Conversation) | – – Hours after Ankara was rocked by the second bomb attack in less than three weeks, killing at least 37 people and injuring 70 others, Turkish jets bombed PKK bases in the Qandil mountains deep inside the Kurdish region of Iraq. Turkish security officials told reporters that […]
9/11: Clueless US Judge doesn’t Know Shiites from al-Qaeda, finds against Iran for $10 Bn.
TeleSur | – – A U.S. court last week ordered Tehran to pay US$7.5 billion to victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Iran on Monday rejected as “ridiculous” a U.S. court ruling that the Islamic Republic must pay more than US$10 billion in compensation for the 9/11 […]
And the Best Teacher in the World is . . . a Palestinian
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teacher from the occupied West Bank on Sunday won the Varkey Foundation’s 2016 Global Teacher’s Prize “for her work educating children in Palestine.” Hanan al-Hroub, from Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, was announced the winner of the […]
The American Muslims Trump doesn’t Know About
Bridge Initiative Team | (Bridge) | – – In an interview with Donald Trump that aired on Wednesday on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked the Republican presidential frontrunner if he thought “Islam is at war with the West.” “I think Islam hates us,” Trump said, “There’s tremendous hatred there… We have to get to the bottom […]
Ankara, Turkey: At least 39 dead after car bombing, Judge Bans Social Media
Euronews | (Video news Report) | “A car bomb has caused carnage in the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara. The authorities now say at least 3[9] people have died and some 75 have been injured. The blast happened just before 6.45 p.m. local time at Kizilay Square near the central Guven Park. The area […]
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