Wochit News | (Video report) | – – A Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38% . Sec. Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump by 47% […]
Islamophobia in 2015: The Good, the Bad and the Hopeful
By the Bridge Initiative Team | – – Looking back at the last twelve months, it can initially appear that Islamophobia was pretty bad in 2015. And indeed it was. Attacks against Muslims in the United States and their institutions have occurred in rapid succession. Meanwhile, leading politicians and the voting public have expressed increasingly […]
If Iraq can take Ramadi from ISIL/ Daesh, it will Need to reach out to Sunnis
By Balsam Mustafa and Scott Lucas | (The Conversation) | – – After days of mounting expectation, the Iraqi government finally announced a serious offensive to retake the city of Ramadi, the capital of western Iraq’s Anbar Province, from [the so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS). This is far from the first announcement of the imminent […]
ISIS and the Abuse of History
By Akil N. Awan and A. Warren Dockter | ( History Today) | – – Volume 66 Issue 1, January 2016 N. B. IC house style is Daesh, but this is a reprint from elsewhere). The defeat of ISIS can only be achieved if we take a long view and question the Jihadists’ simplistic interpretation […]
How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Could Boost Commercial Space Travel
ABC News | (Video News Report) | – – “SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the ability to reuse rockets, like its Falcon 9, will dramatically reduce future launch costs.” ABC: “How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Could Boost Commercial Space Travel”
Did Obama Really “Surrender the Middle East to Putin?”
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – A perusal of the “writing on the hall” commentary of the Right Wing in the last two months–since a small Russian force of 2,000 was inserted into the remaining Syrian government-controlled portions of Syria on September 30th–leads to one inevitable conclusion. Namely, that Obama’s “inactivity, […]
Surprise! Male Chauvinist Pig Trump gets vulgar with Hillary Clinton
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “During the Democratic debate Hillary Clinton returned from the bathroom break a bit late. What’s the big deal? Donald Trump took the opportunity to attack Clinton. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) discuss on The Young Turks. . . . […]
Is its Syria Adventure destabilizing Turkey?
By Nadir Firat | (Informed Comment) | – – Riza Saka, a lawyer turned TV pundit, declared that “Turkey has nothing to fear” from the shooting down of the Russian SU-24 plane. In one of the most popular political debate shows on Turkish TV, he declared this suggesting that Russia has much to lose if […]
4,000 Sick Gaza Palestinians need to Leave for Treatment, but are blocked by Israeli, Egyptian Blockades
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Around 4,000 sick Palestinians in Gaza need to travel through the Rafah crossing on the Gaza Strip’s southern border with Egypt, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Monday. Ashraf al-Qidra demanded that the border be opened during a sit-in near the crossing. He said that the continuous […]
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