Tearing up the Iran nuclear deal would be ‘disastrous’ and ‘the height of folly’, John Brennan says Adam Withnall @adamwithnall 0:09 / 0:24 The director of the CIA has warned Donald Trump it would be “disastrous” to tear up the US’s nuclear deal with Iran, after the President-elect pledged to […]
Nov 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Adair Turner Donald Trump’s election has been greeted around the world with justifiable bewilderment and fear. His victory — following a fact-free, vicious election campaign — has trashed the brand of American democracy. But while Trump is impulsive and occasionally vindictive — a potentially fatal […]
Nov 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL At a press conference held on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Peru last week, US President Barack Obama showed gloom and doom about the Syrian situation and gave the distinct impression that Washington was and is helpless about doing […]
By David Frey Special to The News-Post Nov 18, 2016 Courtesy photo From left, Shahina Bashir, Fauzia Rehan and Nabeela Malik volunteer at the soup kitchen in Frederick as part of their spiritual work. The women were more nervous than usual last Friday as they arrived to serve food at […]
By Arthur Brice, CNN November 26, 2016 Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies at 90 02:26 Story highlights Castro dominated the small island nation for decades One of the few people on the planet who could be identified by one name (CNN)Fidel Castro, the Cuban despot who famously proclaimed […]
IMAGES STAFF DESK REPORT This hilarious video features some pretty ugly questions One of the questions was: Do Muslims have sex in Ramadan… “What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been asked about being Muslim?” American Muslims answer this question with the most absurd things they’ve been asked, and the result? Hilarious […]
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Thousands of protesters marching in reaction to the election of Republican Donald Trump, Nov. 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. This is not the time to hide away and withdraw from civil society out of fear. The American Muslim community as a whole must develop a united front […]
Anne’s father Otto sought visas to the United States and the door was slammed in their face. I do wonder what the Trump administration would have done Robert Fisk Amsterdam @indyvoices Donald Trump would do well to read Anne Frank’s diary I’ve just visited the hiding place of some troublesome […]
Nov 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has opened the floodgates to wild expectations, exaggerated hopes, much speculation and a range of conflicting emotions. These include hope, prosperity and family security at one end, and terrible fears, racism and hatred at […]
By John W. Whitehead Global Research, November 23, 2016 The Rutherford Institute 21 November 2016 “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s […]
Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History By Victor Marchetti In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies’ resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our […]
THE INDUSTRY November 23, 20163:31 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered LAURA SYDELL FacebookTwitterInstagram “The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” Fanatic Studio/Getty Images A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared […]
RAY HANANIA | Published — Thursday 24 November 2016 Ray Hanania Many Arabs and Muslims are angry over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric vowing to halt Muslim immigration until immigration screening process can be improved. Most are reacting with emotion rather than with reason or logic, and in the long […]
Nov 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud Fear and trepidation are slowly building up, as US President-elect Donald Trump is fortifying his transitional team with people capable of bringing about a nightmare scenario, not only for Americans but for the rest of the world as well. For Palestinians, the signs […]
Nov 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States represents the start of a new phase following eight years of Obama’s administration. His win has surprised many people, but Trump the candidate will be very different from Trump the president. […]
Simon Jenkins A judge granted a dying teenager’s wish to be frozen in the hope she might live again. This decision was about the rights of all of us ‘This hope clearly gave comfort to a dying person.’ Storage facilities at one of two US cryonics institutions. Photograph: Cryonics Institute/Handout/EPA […]
The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected ‘If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for’: Barack Obama on fake […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has added a major new element of uncertainty to a Middle Eastern picture that had already achieved its highest state of confusion, violence and uncertainty in its modern history. The factors that […]
Nov 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]
HASTY EXIT NOV 16, 2016 – LeVine hosted an all-night election watching party in the capital Bern on November 9 (Keystone) The US ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Suzan G. LeVine, has announced that she will be leaving Switzerland for America on the same day the new US president will […]