Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “We hear a lot about religious freedom from conservatives these days, but what do they actually mean when they use that term? A new poll out of Iowa sheds some light… Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The […]
Al Jazeera journalists freed in Egypt
John Terrett | (Al Jazeera America Video Report) | – – “Baher Mohammad and Mohammad Fahmy were pardoned by Egypt’s president this morning. John Terrett has more.” Aljazeera America: Al Jazeera journalists freed in Egypt
Israel imposes lockdown on East Jerusalem neighborhoods
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities closed the main entrances to East Jerusalem neighborhoods with cement blocks on Wednesday, preventing Palestinians from preparing for the Eid al-Adha holiday, locals said. Ma’an Images Locals told Ma’an that Israeli authorities closed the three main entrances of the Sur Bahir neighborhood, as well […]
Is the United Nations being captured by Transnational Corporations?
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 2015 (IPS) – The United Nations, which is commemorating its 70th anniversary next week punctuated by a summit meeting of world leaders, is facing charges of being politically manipulated by big business and transnational corporations (TNCs) – some openly violating labour […]
Making money off Nuclear Apocalypse while obsessing about Non-Nuclear Iran
By Richard Krushnic & Jonathan Alan King | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Imagine for a moment a genuine absurdity: somewhere in the United States, the highly profitable operations of a set of corporations were based on the possibility that sooner or later your neighborhood would be destroyed and you and all your neighbors annihilated. And […]
Why the Pope and America won’t leave each Other Unchanged
By Massimo Faggioli | (The Conversation) | – – The papal trip to the United States that Francis will begin on September 22 is the most difficult of his pontificate so far. This is because of what I call the pope’s “American problem” – a cultural and ideological distance between the more socially minded Jesuit […]
Could Daesh/ ISIS bring Russia and the west together?
By Marta Ter | (Open Democracy) | – – For a couple of years after 9/11, there was a solid US-Russia anti-terrorism cooperation that basically gave the Kremlin a freer hand in crushing the Chechens. The first Chechen war: Grozny. Demoted/Alexander Nemenov. All rights reserved.“The Islamic State (IS) is Russia’s main enemy”, the Russian Foreign […]
Syrians welcomed Armenian, Iraqi, other Refugees but now Unwelcome as Refugees
AJ+ | – – “The world hasn’t been very hospitable to refugees from Syria – a country with a long history of taking in people displaced from other parts of the world.” AJ+: “History Of The Refugees Who Fled To Syria”
Dark Money Surge: Conservatives Buoyed by Historic Flood of Contributions
By Sarah Lazare, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) – – A new report from Center for Responsive Politics finds single-candidate groups have spent $16.2 million total so far—- over 55 times levels seen in 2012—- and conservatives disproportionately benefit. Political spending by outside groups seeking to the influence the 2016 presidential election is already dramatically […]
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