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Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?
By Emily Cury | (The Conversation) | – – The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 […]
Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It
By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s various public statements have made clear that he is not an avid reader. He […]
Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances
By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | – – Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing […]
Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. The Christian Science Monitor says that in 2016, US solar businesses employed 260,077 workers – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are Muslims allowed to be Sympathetic Victims in US Media, or only Perpetrators?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Libyan activist Hend Amry makes an important point about the relative lack of interest of television […]
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 […]