BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A United Nations (UN) probe said, on Thursday, that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes killing scores of Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 suppressing weekly protests in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past year. Santiago Canton, Chairman of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry said, in a statement, […]
Racism v. Racist: Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I noted yesterday, in Michael Cohen’s opening statement during his public testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he alleged that Donald Trump is a racist, saying: ‘ He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . […]
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement
“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . ”
In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty
Beirut (AFP) – “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” the rights watchdog said in its annual regional report. “Is it acceptable for activists to undergo arbitrary detention, torture, sexual harassment … and even enforced disappearances simply for expressing their opinions in a peaceful way,” […]
New Archeological Evidence for the Kaaba, Sanctuary of Peace, in Early Islam
“This inscription was written in the year when construction work was done on the sacred shrine in the year 78 [697-8].”
A Victim of Trump? Iran’s Centrist Foreign Minister Mysteriously Forced Out
Was Zarif forced out by regime hard liners angry about his role in the 2015 Nuclear Deal?
Not Trump’s America: On How the Oscars looked Like the Real America this Year
Cuarón: “”I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a film centered around an indigenous woman. One of the 70 million domestic workers in the world without work rights”
Can AIPAC sell Netanyahu’s Kahanist Terrorists to Middle America?
The Israel lobbies demand silence from Americans and now are even attempting to deep-six the First Amendment by more or less outlawing BDS
Leftist Syrian Kurds Rejoice that Trump will Keep Hundreds of US Troops in Syria
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The left wing Democratic Union Party of Kurds in Northeast Syria and its paramilitary, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), warmly welcomed President Trump’s about-face and decision to keep at least 200 US troops in Syria on Friday. A YPG militia commander said that this American step “will prevent the region […]