RACE: Do You See Me?
Source: Time By John Legend John Legend is a singer, songwriter, philanthropist and prison-reform advocate. ‘We need to see each other in all of our humanity’ We’re living in a moment […]
Nazi Grandma’ sent to jail again for Holocaust denial
Source: The Local Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel, 87, has been sentenced by a district court in Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, to 11 months imprisonment without parole, Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.Haverbeck-Wetzel was convicted for the crime of incitement of hatred for denying the Holocaust in a letter she sent to the Central Council […]
800 crimes against refugee homes reported this year
Source: The Local The number of crimes committed against refugee homes has increased across the country, reaching 797 cases so far this year, according to BKA figures seen by publishing group Funke Mediengruppe. The overwhelming majority of these cases – 740 – were perpetrated by “right-wing motivated offenders”, including neo-Nazis.As Germany […]
Syria now on the table as Putin comes to Berlin
Source: The Local France on Tuesday confirmed that the French, Russian and German leaders will hold a “working meeting” on the Syrian crisis in Berlin, in addition to discussing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine with the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko. Host Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Ukraine talks would be aimed at “offering a brutally […]
How rivalry destroyed a country
Oct 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud “The United States has the power to decree the death of nations,” wrote Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe. Kinzer’s article was titled “The media are misleading the public on Syria”. In his piece, the scholar at a Brown University Institute contested that […]
Asylum requests in Switzerland tumble
OCT 18, 2016 – Asylum seekers play cards in a chalet near Villars-sur-Ollon in the Vaud Alps (Keystone) Requests for asylum in Switzerland were down by almost half in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) reported […]
Boy asks mother for two lunches to ensure his classmate does not go hungry
Josette Duran spoke about her pride in her son on Facebook Andrew Buncombe New York @AndrewBuncombe 0:07 / 0:38 Not one sandwich, but two. And to go with them, two packets of chips and two cartons of yoghurt. For several months, Josette Duran packed her son two lunches to take […]
Saudi Arabia cannot go on throwing every decent man who speaks out on human rights into jail
If the King really wants his country to be a ‘pioneering global model of excellence on all fronts’ then what is he doing shutting Saudis who want basic freedoms and rights in the clink? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Activists who have spoken out about human rights abuses have been given lengthy prison sentences and travel […]
What does this Trump billboard say in Arabic?
The sign went up last weekend in Dearborn, Mich., an area with a high percentage of Arab Americans in a swing state. DEARBORN, MICH.—A billboard written in Arabic located along a Michigan interstate near an Arab-American community is calling Donald Trump “afraid.” https://twitter.com/mina_ysf/status/788340083644510209/photo/1 The Detroit Free Press reports the sign […]
Sexual Harassment Is a Man’s Problem Not a Woman’s
Huff Post: by Marilyn Katz — The ten women who spoke out about their sexual harassment by Donald Trump have opened a veritable flood-gate, with personal revelations of abuse from both the famous and the unknown, and with commentators and columnists asking “Will more women now believe their own stories?” […]