By Mohamed A. Satti | – The uprising in Sudan has been vocal – and musical. “Tasqut bas!” – just fall, that’s all – was a commonly-used slogan by Sudanese as they revolted against military dictator Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year rule. The uprising, which began in December 2018, intensified over the following weeks, forcing Al-Bashir to […]
Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse
By Saeed Ahmed Khan | – Most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim and that much of what they understand about Islam is from the media. It’s not surprising then to see the many misunderstandings that exist about Muslims. Some see them as outsiders and a threat to the American way of life and […]
How Sudan’s Protesters Forced a Long-Ruling Dictator from Power
By Andrew Edward Tchie | – Following months of protests, and a prolonged sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was placed under house arrest on April 11 as the country’s military prepared for a transitional government. Many have described the Sudanese uprising as a “bread protest” against a rise in […]
Netanyahu won in Israel because his Rivals campaigned as Netanyahu Lite
Guy Ziv | – The close results of the April 9 Israeli elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the apparent winner, represent a missed opportunity for his centrist rivals. As a foreign policy scholar who researches Israeli politics, I believe that perhaps the greatest irony of the election was the failure of Netanyahu’s challengers, […]
Don’t Blame Islamic Law for Muslim Extremism — Blame Western Colonialism
By Mark Fathi Massoud |- Warning that Islamic extremists want to impose fundamentalist religious rule in American communities, right-wing lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have tried banning Sharia, an Arabic term often understood to mean Islamic law. These political debates – which cite terrorism and political violence in the Middle East to argue that […]
Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs
By Simon Beard, Lauren Holt and Paul Upchurch | – “Why did the dinosaurs die out?” The consensus, among palaeontologists and dinosaur crazy seven-year-olds alike, seems to be that about 66m years ago a 10km diameter asteroid crashed into what is now Central America. It raised up a cloud of dust and ash that spread […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy
By Ihsan Yilmaz and Erdoan Shipoli | – Votes are still being counted in local elections that took place across Turkey on Sunday, but so far it appears that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party has lost key cities and towns. That includes the Turkish capital Ankara, which has been run by Islamist mayors for the […]
We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem
By Nicholas Beuret | – American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal – a plan to make the US a carbon-neutral economy in the next ten years, while reducing both poverty and inequality. Lauded by many as a radical and necessary step, president […]
Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That
By Shuang-Ye Wu | – Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued by flood events in recent decades. Floods are triggered by extreme rainfall events, often combined with ground conditions, such as saturated or frozen ground, that make it harder for water […]
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