Source: Asia Times. By Pepe Escobar (Spoiler alert: this is the alternate remix of a New York Times original.) BAGHDAD – The Pentagon officially pronounced its US$3 trillion-and-counting, “war on terror”-related invasion, occupation and decimation of the Iraqi nation dead on Thursday even as the country prepared for a low-intensity […]
Source / Courtesy: Loonwatch.com Pro-Israel propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg made an inadvertent but profound admission the other day when he said: “[T]he U.S. have been waging a three-decade war for domination […]
Source: Chatham Daily News Canvassing to promote harmony A Muslim youth group will visit Chatham this weekend in an effort to promote peace. “Our plan is to visit 3,000 houses, knocking on doors, asking people if they have any questions about Islam to promote religious harmony,” Rizwan Rabbani, national executive-director […]
Amir Guatemala Abdul Sattar Khan, Naib Amir USA Imam Daud Hanif and Brother David Gonzalez, met with former president of Guatemala (now currently serving his 3rd term as Mayor of […]
Source: CNN ‘I don’t know if it was all worth it’ Emily Trageser, 31, joined the Army in 2000 and deployed to Iraq for the 2003 invasion with the 101st Airborne Division. She returned to the United States in early 2004. I don’t think that the gravity of what we […]
By Carol Morello, The Washington Post The proportion of adults who are married has plunged to record lows as more people decide to live together now and wed later, reflecting decades of evolving attitudes about the role of marriage in society. Just 51 percent of all adults who are 18 […]
By: Meher Usman We’re often told that international relations are not bound by any morality or values, may it be a relationship of friendship or animosity, and they ought to be based on either of the actor’s personal and selfish interest. Amazingly enough, in the same world, we have witnessed […]
Source: NYTimes BAGHDAD — One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America’s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. “I mean, whether […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: Contending that US relationship with Pakistan had reached a dead end, an American lawmaker has said there was a sense among Congressmen that time had come to “side” with India to “cut off the ISI”. Senator Mark Kirk said at a discussion forum by prestigious Washington-based think […]
FORT Bragg, North Carolina (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday honoured America’s nearly nine years of “bleeding and building” in Iraq, hailing the “extraordinary achievement” of a war he once branded “dumb”. “Welcome home, welcome home,” Obama cried in an aircraft hangar in North Carolina, basking in the “Ooh […]
Abrahamic faiths should and can be working partners in the service of God. Land buys a big Tri-Faith leap By Christopher Burbach: WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER Omaha Jewish, Muslim and Christian […]
Source^: NY Times: By the time he was 16, Newt Gingrich was sure of two things. He would marry his high school geometry teacher. And he would save Western civilization. Gingrich has moved on to younger wives. But he’s still obsessed with numbers and rescuing the planet. In 1994, he […]
Source: Asia Times. By Nick Turse As the Arab Spring blossomed and President Barack Obama hesitated about whether to speak out in favor of protesters seeking democratic change in the Greater Middle East, the Pentagon acted decisively. It forged ever deeper ties with some of the most repressive regimes in […]
Source: September 2011 Alislam-eGazette This post is part of the Muslim Times’ campaign to demystify Sharia Law and diffuse the propaganda of the fundamentalist Christians and power grabbing politics of the […]
Source: The Independent By Robert Fisk: A multiple award-winning journalist on the Middle East, based in Beirut. Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN: Iran claims its experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the US surveillance drone captured by Iranian armed forces. Lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, from […]
Washington Post: Opinion by Michael Gerson: ……Who else shares this interpretation of sharia law? Well, totalitarians naturally do. Gingrich joins Iranian clerics, Taliban leaders and Salafists of various stripes in […]
The private firm hired by the U.S. that became synonymous with civilian killings in the Iraq war has once again decided to rename itself (via the Washington Post). First known as Blackwater, the security contractor changed its name to Xe about three years ago to distance itself from all […]
Between its nuclear program and its general sabre rattling foreign policy, Iran’s position with the U.S., and the world, is easy to take for outright aggression. With that in mind, it’s interesting to look at the world as Iran sees it from inside its borders. This map from Democratic Underground puts a […]
Lowe’s may not be the only big company to cave under pressure from the Florida Family Association. The conservative Christian group claims that more than 60 companies that it emailed, from Amazon to McDonald’s, have also pulled adds from TLC’s All-American Muslim, according to the AP. So far Lowe’s is the only major company to […]