ISIS claims to behead American journalist Foley in retribution for air strikes
The Islamic State released a YouTube video of the apparent beheading of American journalist James Foley.
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Word of the week: Anti-Shi’ism
WASHINGTON, August 19, 2014 — Anti-Shi’ism (noun) – Prejudice against or hatred of Shia Muslims. Coined by Shia Rights Watch in 2011, this term describes the wave of discrimination and violence that has crashed against Shia Muslims in recent decades. Shia Muslims comprise between 10 and 20 percent of the world’s Muslim population. They have been the target ...
Obama’s choice: Politics, or national security?
With the right to carry the title of commander-in-chief, comes the responsibility of making decisions for the protection of national security interests
NATO spots Russian incursion, Ukraine attacks, stocks down
WASHINGTON, August 15, 2014 – According to a Reuters report, “NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday a ‘Russian incursion’ into Ukraine had occurred overnight, but stopped short of characterizing it as an invasion. Wall Street, which had started out in a positive mood Friday morning, quickly tanked—no pun intended—down roughly one percent ...
Hatred in Gaza, peace in an exploding world
WASHINGTON, August 14, 2014 — In the last year, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Syria’s civil war and by the Islamic State. Two thousand Palestinians have died in Gaza, and more thousands have died in Ukraine and North Africa. In an unguarded moment, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told an audience ...
Two questions every Palestinian supporter must answer
As Israel defends itself from Hamas-fired rockets, a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems slim.
How Obama and Kerry can become heroes on Israel
Despite all of the bureaucratic bungling, there is one thing that Obama and Kerry could both do that would make them both heroes.
Discrimination against Shia led to genocide of Christian and Yazidi
International committees, governments, and NGOs must end discriminatory or oppressors and terrorists will not fear to violate human rights.
Obama’s Iraq dilemma: UN declares a Level 3 humanitarian crisis
More US troops arriving on the ground as fact finders. US working with Iraqi and Kurdish leaders to move Yazidi from Mount Sinjar before they die or are captured by ISIS
Bahraini Shia show solidarity with jailed Shia sheikh
A large number of Bahraini Shia took to the streets on the island of Sitra on Sunday August 10, 2014 to show solidarity with Sheikh Nimr al Nimr who has been in Saudi Prison for two years.
Dissenting Israeli voices that call for a Palestinian state
The root of the matter is that Israel is occupying the Palestinian territories, the territory of the West Bank and the territory of the Gaza Strip - Uri Avnery
Remember the “Global War on Terror”?
WASHINGTON, August 11, 2014 — For many Americans, the “war on terror” was a figment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s fevered imagination and that of his affable marionette, President George W. Bush. Lumping al Qaeda and other international Islamic extremists into one neat group, critics said, closed off a more nuanced approach to achieving U.S. ...
Iraq 2003: Right war, right time, right president
LOS ANGELES, August 10, 2014 — Whenever Iraq is in the news, Iraq War critics feel compelled to deflect current policy failures by attacking the original mission. All the revisionist history in the world will not change the truth. After seventeen broken United Nations resolutions, President George W. Bush enforced Resolution 1441. America was now ...
Islamic State stones women, threatens US
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2014 — Even as America is conducting military airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq, reports that Islamic State jihadi fighters have stoned to death a young woman accused of adultery have been verified by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On July 18, the woman, clad head to toe in black, was ...
China’s abandoned babies – male bias, one child policy, poverty all to blame
No one takes care of the babies and legally these children have no protection. They are sent to the Child Welfare Office where they face an uncertain fate.
Can the Taliban make a comeback in Afghanistan?
KANDAHAR, August 9, 2014—Pessimism has infected Americans’ outlook on the world. Nowhere is the tendency more evident or pronounced than in Afghanistan. It is a bipartisan affair, too. Conservatives seem resigned that a Muslim country will go the way of our other two recent interventionist projects in Iraq and Libya. Liberals are convinced that military ...
Uncle and nephew killed outside of Karachi barbershop
This is the second such loss for the Hussain family who lost another relative to similar violence just a few days ago.
For peace in Gaza to be maintained, Hamas must be destroyed
Golda Meir once said that peace would come to the Middle East when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
Obama’s new Cold War: U.S. aircraft flies into Swedish airspace to avoid Russian fighter jet
CNN reported that the aircraft, in international airspace, altered its course when the Russians began tracking the plane using land-based radar.
Gaza and Jewish values: The thoughtful Jewish voice most Americans never hear
WASHINGTON, August 4, 2014 — The current conflict between Israel and Hamas is taking a terrible toll in human lives, mostly Palestinian civilians, many of them women and children. In one instance, artillery shells slammed into a U.N. school, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens as they slept. The building was the sixth ...