By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | – – Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing problems for public health and education, warned Save the Children on Tuesday. The international NGO says Israel’s ongoing land, air and sea blockade of Gaza, which has been in place […]
Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?
By Marcelo Rochabrun | (ProPublica) | – – With the president reportedly at the point of canceling DACA, some of its 800,000 beneficiaries describe what they gained — and now fear losing — from the program. Marco Guajardo starts a new job today that, he said, will provide him with health insurance for the first […]
How Trump’s pardon of Arpaio changed America
By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson | (Otherwords.org) | – – The president called a man who freely violated people’s constitutional rights a “patriot.” What does that make his victims? During a speech to a group of police officers in July, President Trump returned to one of his favorite themes of the campaign season: violence. “Please don’t be […]
Syria’s Heritage, and the World’s, that the War Destroyed–From Palmyra to Castles
Written by Alreem Kamal | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – Syria's story is one that has been weaved through families from one millennium to the next. Subjugated as a Roman province under the command of Pompey the Great in 64 BC, and brought under Ottoman rule 16 centuries later by Sultan Selim I in 1516, […]
Media Ignore Harvey’s Devastation of Working Class Communities
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “Hurricanes don’t care if you’re rich, poor, white, or black—but that doesn’t mean that every person is equally vulnerable to a storm.” People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, […]
Burma: Satellite Shows Massive Arson against Muslims by Buddhists
Human Rights Watch . | – – 700 Buildings Destroyed in Single Muslim Village in Rakhine State (New York) – New satellite imagery shows several hundred buildings burned in Burma’s Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township shows 700 buildings burned, a […]
Khizr Khan: Liberty requires Vigilance & Sacrifice in defense of Constitution
The Atlantic | (Video Report) | – – “Liberty requires vigilance and sacrifice so we remain standing in defense of our Constitution and its values,” says Khizr Khan. The lawyer and Gold Star father of Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq, spoke out against President Trump at the Democratic National Committee Convention […]
Arabs, Thomas Friedman and the “iron fist”
By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com) Writing about conflicts in the Middle East for the New York Times yesterday, columnist Thomas Friedman talked of “the power that is lost to a society like Syria or Iraq that needs an iron fist to make its many into one, and when that fist is removed, how the […]
Heavy Smoke from SF Russian Consulate Chimney as Moscow Fears Search by US
By Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL ) | – – WASHINGTON — Russia’s Foreign Ministry said that U.S. law enforcement officials intend to search its San Francisco consulate and some diplomatic residences, and it complained the U.S. demands were posing a “direct threat” to its citizens. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement […]
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