Month: June 2016

The most important election of your life

Source. Asia Times. The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And they […]

Among the dead are citizens from China, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iran and Ukraine

Source:Asia Times. ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish investigators pored over video footage and witness statements on Wednesday after three suspected Islamic State (IS) suicide bombers opened fire and blew themselves up in Istanbul’s main airport, killing 41 people and wounding 239. The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport was the deadliest in […]

US president warns against Brexit ‘hysteria’

Source: Arab News. WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned against international “hysteria” following last week’s vote for Britain to leave the European Union. In an interview with National Public Radio, the US president said that he respected the results of the referendum. However for Obama, the vote means that, […]

New Jersey passes anti-BDS legislation

Source: JTA (JTA) — The New Jersey Legislature passed legislation that prohibits the state from investing  pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses. The bipartisan bill in response to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel passed the state’s General Assembly on Monday by […]

Genocide in Burma

Source: Washington Monthly by Joshua Kurlantzick Of all the ethnic, racial, and religious minorities in the world, wrote the Economist last year, the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, may well be the most persecuted people on the planet. Today nearly two million Rohingya live in western Myanmar and in Bangladesh. […]