by Jackie Wattles @jackiewattlesFebruary 18, 2017: Bill Gates in 83 Seconds Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat: terrorists with pathogens. He’s warning that the threat of bio-terrorism is “right up there with nuclear […]
Matt Agorist February 19, 2017 Harold James received his PhD from Cambridge in 1982. He then received the Ellen MacArthur Prize for Economic History and the Helmut Schmidt Prize in Economic History. While teaching and studying at Princeton for the last three decades, James also serves on the editorial committee of the […]
Reuters International FEB 20, 2017 – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (L) receives a gift from Iraq’s Defence Minister Erfan al-Hiyali during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military is not in Iraq “to seize anybody’s oil”, […]
Abdel Moein and his family were among hundreds of Syrian refugees whose lives were put on hold after an executive order, since stayed, suspended U.S. resettlement. By: Lisa Abou Khaled | 16 February 2017 | Français | عربي Abdel Moein Al Abed, his wife Fatima, eight-year-old twins Mohamad and Jomaa, and daughter, Shahd, […]
Reuters International FEB 19, 2017 – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura delivers his speech during the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 19, 2017. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (reuters_tickers) By John Irish and Andrea Shalal MUNICH (Reuters) – The United Nations and other parties to Syrian peace […]
Reuters International FEB 18, 2017 Demonstrators march during the “Day Without Immigrants” protest in Washington, DC, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein (reuters_tickers) MUNICH (Reuters) – A new version of a Trump administration travel ban will not stop green card residency holders or travellers already on planes from entering […]
Reuters International FEB 18, 2017 – Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman speaks during a news conference in this still image taken from February 1993 video footage on January 18, 2013. REUTERS/Reuters TV/Files (reuters_tickers) By Bill Trott (Reuters) – Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim cleric known as “the blind sheikh” who was convicted […]
But views of both have gotten better. By Antonia Blumberg A new survey asked Americans to rate different religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” from zero to 100. The results revealed that Americans are warming up to people to different faiths. The survey, released Wednesday by Pew Research Center, found […]
The Congressional Ahmadiyya Muslim Caucus was first formed in 2014 By: PTI | Washington | Published:February 18, 2017 Photo from Ahmadiya Muslim conference in 2015 (Representational) Two US lawmakers have re-launched Congressional Ahmadiyya Muslim Caucus in a bid to highlight religious and human rights abuses suffered by the minority community […]
The media circus that is the current administration will come to an end soon, and politics will go back to normal. But what will we do for entertainment? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Not long after the Lebanese civil war ended more than a quarter of a century ago, I found my […]
Source: Reuters International and Swiss Info By Luke Baker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said […]
There was laughter. Not because this was an intended joke by Donald Trump, but because his words were so flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable, that laughter was the only psychological human release available to sane men and women after such tragic frivolity Robert Fisk @indyvoices Donald Trump’s […]
LOCAL NEWS VALENCIA WICKER PUBLISHED: 02/16/17 12:26 AM EST. Every Wednesday evening, the first floor lobby of the Rardin Family Practice Center is turned into a registration area for patients in need of free healthcare. “The motivation is to serve people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and from different […]
Press Release (english) 16 February, 2017 CIA espionage orders for the last French presidential election All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA’s human (“HUMINT”) and electronic (“SIGINT”) spies in the seven months leading up to France’s 2012 presidential election. The revelations are contained within three […]
FEB. 15, 2017 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A United States official said on Tuesday that the US was not necessarily committed to the two-state solution as the sole way out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sparking criticism from Palestinian officials who upheld that the two-state solution remained the only alternative to […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering requiring visitors to turn over their social-media passwords and browsing histories.Mike Blake / Reuters KAVEH WADDELL FEB 10, 2017 “What sites do you visit? And give us your passwords.” That’s what U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly wants foreign visitors to hear […]
From the sectionMiddle East US President Donald Trump has said he will work very hard to deliver “really a great peace deal” between Israel and the Palestinians. After his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump told his visitor both sides would have to make compromises. […]
Since the President’s rise to power, Israel’s government has been drunk with power and impunity. It has dropped its thin mask of supporting the two state solution, moving at a dizzying speed to build as many settlements as possible in the occupied Palestinian territory Omar Barghouti When President Donald Trump […]
Reuters International FEB 15, 2017 People walk past a giant banner on a building congratulating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (reuters_tickers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump supports the goal of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, even if it does not […]
A man from Nebraska has spoken to local press about his change of heart regarding Muslims in the United States. John Dutcher, a resident of Omaha, told KETV news how his prejudice against Muslims had changed when a number of new families from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, moved into his […]