TeleSur | – – Children make up 36 percent of the those making the perilous migration journey across the sea, often to flee conflicts. As the refugees crisis surges on with thousands of refugees from the Middle East attempting to cross the Mediterranean on route to Europe, two children have drowned every day since September […]
Can Morocco Create a New Middle East through Green Energy?
By Moha Ennaji | ( Project Syndicate) | – – FEZ – The global oil-price bust has devastated economies across the Middle East and North Africa. Having seen severe price declines in the past, many leaders in the region may be tempted to wait for prices to rise again. But this collapse is different, and […]
Afghanistan: Washington’s Twenty-First-Century Opium Wars
By Alfred McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In October 2001, the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan largely through proxy Afghan fighters with the help of Special Operations forces, American air power, and CIA dollars. The results were swift and stunning. The Taliban was whipped, a new government headed by Hamid Karzai […]
Israeli forces demolish sole school in Bedouin community
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday demolished a Bedouin school for children in the Abu al-Nuwaar community near the town of al Eizariya in the occupied West Bank, a spokesperson for the Al-Jahalin Bedouin community said. Atallah al-Jahalin told Ma’an that Israeli forces, accompanied by 30 vehicles and […]
Spirit and Sensuality in the mystical Sufi poetry of Rumi
By Nesreen Akhtarkhavari and Anthony A. Lee, Translators | (Informed Comment) | – – The poems of Rumi, the thirteenth-century teacher, scholar, and poet known simply as Mowlana in the Muslim world, have shaped Islamic culture for centuries. They still stand just as vital after eight hundred years. Rumi speaks to us of unchanging spiritual […]
Trumpism & Europe’s Refugees: Poland says it cannot coexist ‘with Middle East people’
By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EurActiv.com) A dispute over how to shelter 160,000 refugees in Europe got deeper today when Poland said its population is unable to live with people from the Middle East. EurActiv Greece reports. The Dutch EU presidency, helped by Germany, Italy and Greece, is trying to convince Eastern European countries to […]
As ISIL goes Global, Will the ‘War on Terror’ extend for Decades?
By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – The war against ISIL has seen 18 months of of airstrikes by United States-led coalition forces in both Iraq and Syria. An even more concentrated period is now under way, with signs of greater use of special forces by western militaries and pledges of ground troops […]
Black, Brown and Progressive: A New Voter Majority in the US?
By Sonali Kolhatkar | ( TeleSur With the US becoming more racially diverse, left-leaning people of color in alliance with their white counterparts means that there is a progressive voting majority right now. Electoral politics often grab far too much attention for far too little reward. Every four years progressives rally around who might be […]
Gaza: Palestinian Women’s unemployment reaches “astronomical” levels as Israeli siege Continues
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — The unemployment among women in the Gaza Strip has reached more than 60 percent, a women’s organization said on Saturday. Fida Abu Darbi, the executive officer for the Association Of Women’s Work Committees, said the unemployment of women in Gaza had reached “astronomical” levels at 63.3 […]
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