Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — At least 499 Palestinians have been injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers across the occupied Palestinian Territory since Saturday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Monday. Spokesperson Errab Foqoha told Ma’an that at least 41 Palestinians had been shot with live rounds, while 143 […]
Education for refugees can help save Syria’s lost generation
By Dorrie Chetty | (The Conversation) | – – With the world’s focus firmly on the European response to the refugee crisis in recent weeks, attention has been diverted away from the humanitarian needs of the Middle East itself. Only a minority of refugees have fled to Europe, with the majority of Syrians travelling across […]
Why Are So Many Millennials Rallying Behind Bernie Sanders?
Lindsay Miller | (Popsugar Video Report) | – – “If you’ve been on Facebook lately, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Bernie Sanders popping up in your feed. The 73-year-old senator is going up against Hillary Clinton for the democratic presidential nomination, and even though he’d be our oldest-ever commander in chief, a big chunk […]
Aided by Climate Change, ISIL wages Water war on Shiites of south Iraq
By Raad Salem | (Niqash.org) | Amarah | – – “Droughts, extremists’ control of water upstream and government austerity measures that are shutting pumping stations: Iraq’s already-precarious, but precious, marshes and wetlands are in danger – again.” The buffaloes that Jabbar Hassan farms moved too slowly across the marshland. They looked tired and too thin; […]
Civil War: Israeli troops shoot 96 Palestinians after 4 Israelis Killed
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLHEM (Ma’an) — At least 96 Palestinians have been wounded by live rounds or rubber-coated steel bullets in clashes with Israeli forces and settlers since Saturday evening, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. Dr. Abed Rabbo Manasra told Ma’an late on Sunday that 28 Palestinians had been shot with live […]
Turkey fears fallout from Russian strikes in Syria
Euractiv | – – Turkey will not allow “terror to take root” or “fait accompli situations” next to its borders, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday (1 October), a day after Russia launched air strikes in neighboring Syria. Russia launched its biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades on Wednesday (30 September), targeting […]
The Young Iraqis Promoting Darwinism and Rationalism To Save Iraq
Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – One of the more unusual, grass roots groups in Iraq today is Real Sciences. They are young Iraqis who translate scientific articles into Arabic, believing that a little more of this could combat violence. In the midst of the conflicts that Baghdad in particular, and the […]
Palestine – The Exception To Free Speech In The U.S.?”
AJ+ | (Video News Report) – – “University campuses are the front line of Palestinian human-rights advocacy in the U.S., but a new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal documents hundreds of cases in which students and scholars have been punished for their free speech.” AJ+: “Palestine – The Exception To […]
Kathleen Turner: The Real Target of the Planned Parenthood Attacks
By Kathleen Turner | (Otherwords.org) “The leading GOP candidates have aligned themselves with a platform based on endangering women’s health care access. In the first two Republican presidential debates, the candidates slugged it out over who hated Planned Parenthood the most. Virtually every hopeful promised to defund the organization. Some of them, including Senator Ted […]
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