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Archives: May 2016

ISIS and Israel on the Golan Heights

ISIS and Israel on the Golan Heights

By Sam Brennan | ( Open Democracy ) | - - The Yarmouk Valley is run by ISIS – and left alone by Israel. This is a testament to the complex, cynical…
Trump too Horrifying for Stephen King

Trump too Horrifying for Stephen King

TeleSur | - - The writers condemn Trump's appeals to the most violent elements of society, while encouraging aggression, intimidating his opponents and promoting racism. Stephen King, the master of horror, is…
Give Syria’s Survivors a Voice

Give Syria’s Survivors a Voice

By Hadeel al-Shalchi | ( Human Rights Watch ) | - - Twelve days ago Fatema Qaitani, a 35-year-old mother of four, was sitting in a tent teaching her daughter how to…
Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority

Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority

VICE News | (Video report) | - - "In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took…
Sadiq Khan and the End of Islamophobia

Sadiq Khan and the End of Islamophobia

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - The victory of Sadiq Khan has "normalized" Muslims in UK politics in much the same way that JFK normalized Catholics…
Yemen: Saudis Using US Cluster Munitions

Yemen: Saudis Using US Cluster Munitions

Human Rights Watch | - - End Production, Transfer of These Banned Weapons (Washington, DC) – Saudi Arabia has used US-made cluster munitions near civilian areas in Yemen, leaving behind unexploded submunitions,…
I Blame the US Media for Donald Trump

I Blame the US Media for Donald Trump

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez | ( TeleSur | - - The entire premise of an industry, like the U.S. media, is based on exploitation and political corruption at the cost of…

Trumping Terrorism with Torture?

By Rebecca Gordon | (Informed Comment) | - - Why do Republican candidates for the presidency keep promising to commit war crimes? Donald Trump guarantees he’ll torture terrorists and “take out their…
Confused Muslim-hating Bigots Target American Sikhs

Confused Muslim-hating Bigots Target American Sikhs

Hasan Minhaj | (Comedy Central video report) | - - "Hasan Minhaj sits down with designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia to find out how Islamophobia is affecting America's (non-Muslim) Sikh population." Comedy…