North Korea ‘ready for nuclear attack’ amid show of force
Source: BBC North Korea has warned the US not to take provocative action in the region, saying it is “ready to hit back with nuclear attacks”. The comments came as […]
‘Big Talk’ considers religious extremism
Source: The Cougar By Katelyn Kenney Students filed into the Agnes Arnold Auditorium Tuesday for a conversation about countering religious extremism. The event, part of the Jack J. Valenti School […]
USA: The polygamy bill: Questions and answers
The Polygamy Blog The polygamy bill: Questions and answers Nate Carlisle First Published Mar 21 2017 Ariel Barlow, right center, carries a sign following a news conference with former polygamists speaking in favor of Republican Rep. Mike Noel bigamy offense amendments Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at the Utah State Capitol, […]
Massive US bomb death toll rises to 94
Associated Press | Published — Saturday 15 April 2017 A general view of the area bombed by the US forces is seen in Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, […]
Dropping ‘the mother of all bombs’ might boost Trump’s ratings, but defeating Isis calls for different tactics entirely
Trump knows that this isn’t about defeating Isis – the Taliban is the biggest problem is that region anyway. To defeat Isis, we have to start accepting that they’re not driven by revenge for western foreign policy but by an ideological hatred for ‘unbelievers’ Sunny Hundal @sunny_hundal What’s worse than […]
It’s time America explored how to end the multiple wars it has helped cause since 2001, rather than dropping more bombs
Source: Independent Moan about Trump all you like, but his approach to Syria was always much more realistic than Hillary Clinton’s. ‘You are fighting Syria, Syria is fighting Isis, and you have to get rid of Isis,’ he said during his election campaign. ‘Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and […]
Scorpion stings passenger on United Airlines flight
Source: CNN It’s been a rough week for United Airlines. The same day a passenger was infamously dragged off a United plane in Chicago, a man on a United flight from Houston to Calgary was allegedly stung by a scorpion. More:
Trump signs measure targeting Planned Parenthood funding
Source: BBC US President Donald Trump has signed a new measure aimed at rolling back federal funding for the US women’s health group Planned Parenthood. The legislation removes an Obama-era […]
What does all this bombing tell us about Trump?
Source: BBC BY Katty Kay Donald Trump has not only normalised American foreign policy, he has arguably made it more effective. With two high-profile, signal-sending bombing raids and a series […]
Minneapolis Muslims protest ‘sharia’ vigilante in Cedar-Riverside area
Source: Star Tribune By Faiza Mahamud Star Tribune APRIL 13, 2017 — 2:06PM Abdullah Rashid, 22, a Georgia native who moved to Cedar-Riverside last year, says his group, General Presidency […]
The ADL offers Sean Spicer a personal Holocaust history lesson
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer April 13 at 7:45 PM White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized during “The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the […]
Chicago Archdiocese pays $3.15 million to settle abuse suits
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Manya Brachear Pashman Contact ReporterChicago Tribune The Archdiocese of Chicago will pay $3.15 million to settle lawsuits brought by three men who allege they were sexually abused […]
The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society
Source: The New York Times By Molly Worthen THE arrival of the “post-truth” political climate came as a shock to many Americans. But to the Christian writer Rachel Held Evans, charges […]
11 breathtakingly beautiful waterfalls in the U.S.
Source: USA Today BY Jamie Ditaranto, SmarterTravel.com Once you’ve seen one great waterfall, you have to see them all. These cascading beauties come in all varieties: tall, skinny, massive and wonderfully […]
US Sikhs launch ad campaign that looks to push back on hate
Source: Associated Press By STEVE PEOPLES NEW YORK (AP) — Sikhs in the United States are launching a million-dollar awareness campaign that aims to stop hate-fueled attacks by explaining more […]
USA: How to stand up to Trump and WIN
Nicholas Kristof APRIL 13, 2017 NYTimes .com BOSTON — After President Trump’s election, a wave of furious opposition erupted. It was an emotional mix of denial and anger, the first two stages of grief, and it wasn’t very effective. Yet increasingly that has matured into thoughtful efforts to channel the passion […]
Donald Trump’s air attack on Syria may have been unlawful – but nobody seems to have noticed
International law is degraded when a breach of the UN charter is declared ‘illegal but legitimate’. The rule of law requires a straightforward answer Geoffrey Robertson 22 hours ago Vladimir Putin and Jeremy Corbyn are among the few to show concern that the US’s Tomahawk missile attack on a Syrian air base was […]
Donald Trump, who doesn’t read books, is ignorant of history – and so is his pet chump Sean Spicer
The White House press spokesperson apparently could not grasp that Hitler used a chemical weapon called Zyklon B, with which the Nazis gassed up to a million of the six million Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologised for causing […]
Malala is ‘humbled’ by honorary Canadian citizenship
Source: BBC Nobel Peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says she is “humbled” to become the sixth person to receive an honorary Canadian citizenship. At 19, she is also the youngest […]
United States’ first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River
Source: Dawn A groundbreaking black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a US judge was found dead in New York’s Hudson River on Wednesday, police said. […]