Voyager: Inside the world’s greatest space mission
Source: BBC News By Richard Hollingham In a beige-coloured cubicle, on the ground floor of a nondescript suburban office block in Pasadena, California, history is being made. In fact, […]
Trump pushes debunked ‘pig’s blood’ myth, hours after Barcelona attack
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has invoked a debunked myth about a general who fought Islamist militants by using pig’s blood to commit mass executions. The president’s tweet […]
Israel’s response to Charlottesville hasn’t been as clear as you might have expected
Source: The Washington Post By Loveday Morris and Ruth Eglash August 16 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Aug. 13. (Dan Balilty/Reuters) As neo-Nazis and white supremacists […]
US forces to stay in Syria for decades, say militia allies
By Reuters – Aug 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Daesh militants in Raqqa, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) AIN ISSA, Syria — Washington’s main Syrian ally in the fight against the Daesh terror group […]
Trump’s claim that a general dipped bullets in pigs’ blood is fake news – but the US massacre of Moro Muslims isn’t
Pershing had left the islands and the Philippine-US war was officially over when the Americans slaughtered the Moro Muslims in their hundreds – men, women and children. With Trump-like enthusiasm, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt congratulated the US commanders on their ‘brilliant feat of arms’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices I don’t know […]
Steve Bannon fired as Trump White House’s top strategist
Source: BBC Mr Bannon is known to have competed for influence in the West Wing against more moderate factions, including members of the Trump family.He told the Bloomberg TV network: “I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents – on Capitol Hill, in the […]
After Charlottesville, white pastors are asking: are we complicit?
Source: Vox In the weeks leading up to Sunday, August 13, Emily C. Heath, a United Church of Christ pastor in Exeter, New Hampshire, was preparing her sermon for that […]
The public will be allowed to visit the Mormon temple on the Beltway for the first time in 46 years
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer August 16 The Mormon Temple in Kensington, Md., is visible from the Beltway. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) For anyone who drives around the Capital Beltway, […]
After Charlottesville, black pastors are confronting how political to get
Source: Vox ANNISTON, Alabama — The morning after white supremacists and neo-Nazis sparked violent clashes in Virginia, the Rev. Titus Roberson delivered a 45-minute sermon to his historically black church […]
Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed With Jews
Source: The Atlantic The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of “white culture” and […]
What Jewish Children Learned From Charlottesville
Source: The New York Times By NATHAN ENGLANDER This dirty Jew remembers every penny thrown at him. The ones thrown from above, as we waited to be picked up from the […]
Trump Defends Initial Remarks on Charlottesville; Again Blames ‘Both Sides’
Source: The New York Times By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMAN WASHINGTON — President Trump reverted Tuesday to blaming both sides for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and at one point […]
China angered at U.S. criticism of religious freedom, says U.S. not perfect
Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – China hit back on Wednesday at criticism by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of its record on religious freedom, saying the United States was […]
White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy
Source: Religion And Politics By Marie Griffith The hatred exhibited by an array of white supremacists this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, horrified much of the nation. The frenzied scenes of […]
Why GoDaddy’s decision to delist a neo-Nazi site is such a big deal
Source: The Washington Post By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Tracy Jan August 14 SAN FRANCISCO — The push for Internet businesses to remove hateful speech spread to an influential corner of the tech industry on Monday […]
A Christian School Official Allegedly Told A Boy To “Turn The Other Cheek” After He Reported He Was Raped
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Mary Ann Georgantopoulos A Tennessee mother and her middle school–aged son are suing the child’s private Christian school claiming officials did not protect the boy from repeated […]
New York gets tougher on community center bomb threats
Source: Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law new penalties for those who make bomb threats against community centers. The Democratic governor […]
Hillary Clinton’s pastor plagiarized portion of new book
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)Hillary Clinton’s longtime pastor plagiarized the writings of another minister in a new book scheduled to be released on Tuesday. “Strong for a […]
Bush presidents wade into Trump furore over Charlottesville
Source: BBC News Former Presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have called on the US to “reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms”. They are the […]
Obama’s Charlottesville tweet most liked tweet in history
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: An anti-racism tweet by former US President Barack Obama after the Charlottesville violence in which he quoted iconic South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has become the most liked tweet ever, garnering more than 2.8 million likes. “No one is born hating another person because of the color […]