‘Keeping a Jackboot on people’s necks’
Trump’s Visa Ban, Rhetoric Scare off Foreign Students, Threatening 450K Jobs
Educating students from abroad is a $42 bn industry in the US
Remembering Stan Lee
“There is only One in the universe who is All-Powerful, and his only weapon is . . . Love.”
Macron’s Slam of Nationalism got it Right, but didn’t note Dehumanization
The old demons are resurging
The Qur’an and the Modern Self: A Heterotopia
The Qur’an has subsisted in the literature of Christian and post-Christian Europe and the Americas in a shifting borderland between self and other.
The Lessons of World War I– Don’t Trust Hateful Politicians like Trump
Trump is in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I, about which he knows almost nothing. The outbreak of that war in 1914 took many contemporaries by surprise. That it would last four years, when leaders promised a quick victory, was a another shock. That advanced machine guns and artillery would make mincemeat […]
Yemen: Trump admin Further distances Self from Saudi-Led bombers
After Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave Saudi Arabia and its allies a month to start negotiations with the Houthi rebels in Sanaa, nothing much seemed to happen. Friday, an official Saudi source said that the coalition had asked the US, after consultations, to cease its in-flight refueling of […]
Israeli Snipers Shoot 6 Children, 9 Women & 22 Other Unarmed Protesters in Gaza
Witnesses say paramedic, Filastin Qudeih was injured with a live bullet in her leg.
15,549 Gun Homicides in US in 2017; 32 (160) in UK
Revised The mass shooting in a bar in California that left 12 dead was carried out by a Vet, making it doubly tragic. The United States has never dealt with the trauma it has inflicted on a whole generation of young people by sending them to fight a fruitless and illegal war in Iraq and […]
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