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President Trump seeks to seize a starring role in D.C.’s Fourth of July festivities with a speech from the Lincoln Memorial being pitched as a patriotic salute to the military. This reporter seizes this day to counter Trump’s injection of partisan politics into the celebration of America by citing President George Washingtons Farewell Address and…
Algeria: The People Are Missing In Algeria, Saïd’s name was firmly rooted as a passe-droit code among a relative consensus of the Algerian regime’s clans. By Abdennour Toumi The relation between the Algerian regime, finance, and the powerful business barons of the private sector under the Bouteflika system have pushed many observers and political analysts…
Responding to Jared Kushner’s “Peace to Prosperity Economic Plan” is Sam Bahour’s “Open Letter To My Fellow American, Civil Servant Jared Kushner: From one American to another: Get out of the car. Go home” that follows this reminder from Jonathan Ben Artzi, a nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who went to prison for 18 months for refusing to serve…
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Middle East Analyst: Solution to Iran Issue is Israel-Palestine Middle-East analyst Jerome Segal, who last June challenged Senator Ben Cardin in the Maryland Democratic Primary because of his vote against Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, and because of Cardin’s support for the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, argues that unresolved Palestine-Israel peace process…
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UN Human Rights agency releases report on Khashoggi murder The United Nations Human Rights Council released a 99 page report detailing the gruesome murder of former Saudi advocate and later Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi Government, Jamal Khashoggi, on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Khashoggi had been an insider with special access and…
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Census and (lack of) Sensibility in the way nation’s manipulate population data Governments around the world manipulate their Census data on populations in order to undermine minority rights and strengthen government abuses against minorities. In the United States, the government has used the Census for decades as a means of suppressing the actual numbers of…
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UN and rights groups denounce Egypt’s abuse of Morsi The United Nations Human Rights joins in denouncing the abuse of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi who died in Egyptian custody after being held in solitary confinement for years following the military coup. Morsi had brought on his own troubles by seeking to amend the Egyptian…
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Plan approved to encourage Academic Excellence for Israeli students of Ethiopian descent $40.4 Million (145 Million NIS) Allocated in Multiyear Budget The Council for Higher Education (CHE) recently approved a $40.4 million (145 million NIS) multiyear plan to encourage academic excellence and leadership among students of Ethiopian descent. The program sprang from Israel’s 2015 Government…
Algeria: Hirak Act II The Hirakists persist in their demands for regime change, while the Military are pushing for the Constitutional order. By Abdennour Toumi Algeria’s “triangle of hope” could lead to the question the street, the Generals, and the Presidential Palace are asking: Will democracy in Algeria really be workable? According to classic political…
26 civilians, including 3 women and 2 children, injured in Houthi attack on Saudi airport Colonel Turki Almalki, the official spokesman of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, said that at (02:21 am) Wednesday morning a hostile projectile fired by Houthi militia hit the arrivals hall at Abha International Airport in Asir Province in…
New book: The Road to Nablus The Road to Nablus is the extraordinary fictionalized true story of the author’s father, Abed Hadi, and his escape from a Palestinian refugee camp in the 1940s, chronicling his remarkable journey to his eventual home in St. Louis, Missouri. As a young boy Abed Hadi survived a massacre, a death…
Syria Direct launches audio series highlighting Syrian women’s voices Syria Direct, a non-profit journalism organization dedicated to telling the stories of the Syrian conflict, has launched its first-ever audio journalism reporting series, Souriyeh / سوريّة. The 10-part series, featuring both Arabic and English-language reporting, takes its title from the feminine adjective of “Syrian.” The goal: to…
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Fifty-two years ago today the USA Government failed to support the crew of USS Liberty; but attempted to cover up Israel’s attack on America’s premier spy-ship as it navigated in international waters during what became known as The Six Day War. By Eileen Fleming On 8 June 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty killing thirty-four and…
Algerians want regime and Elite change The Generals are thinking Machiavellian and acting Clausewitzian, are leaning toward a unique scenario in the Arab country’s’ political struggle dynamic. By Abdennour Toumi The time has come for a true change in Algeria and for action from elite, political party leaders and civil social activists regarding the new…
Ashrawi: Palestinians will not surrender to permanent dispossession and subjugation Fifty-two years after Israel occupied the Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, the Palestinian people continue to resist this colonial occupation with dignity and inspiring steadfastness. The occupation that began in 1967 is part of a continuum of injustice, dispossession, and disenfranchisement that was penned in…
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At Facebook on Sunday, Israel’s nuclear whistle blower Vanunu Mordechai reported that for the 16thyear, after 18 years behind bars Vanunu is still “not to meet foreigners, not leave the country” and all Vanunu can “do is to continue to wait, continue to demand my freedom, from 1986-2019.” By Eileen Fleming Image is a screenshot…
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Kushner and Greenblatt making same mistake Begin made in 1977 Analysis of the upcoming Economic Summit in Bahrain on June 25-26 to be led by President Trump’s Middle East “advisers” Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, two fanatic supporters of Israel’s rightwing government policies that have undermined peace. Kushner and Greenblatt are pursuing an extremist pro-Israel…
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UIC student goes to Morocco on State Department scholarship University of Illinois at Chicago sophomore Luana Davila of Joliet has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco this summer. Davila, who is a classics major and Arabic minor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and…
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