Greater Olney Interfaith Ministerium, Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service 2013
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US whips firms evading Iran curbs
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is targeting several companies and individuals for evading international sanctions against Iran and for providing support for Iran’s nuclear program. The Treasury and State departments announced Thursday they are freezing assets and banning transactions of entities they say are involved in the proliferation of material used […]
U.S. wholesale prices remain subdued in November
(Reuters) – U.S. producer prices fell for a third straight month in November, pointing to a lack of inflation pressure that could give the Federal Reserve pause as it weighs the future of its monthly bond purchases. The Labor Department said on Friday its seasonally adjusted producer price index slipped […]
U.S. schools look to guards, technology a year after Sandy Hook
(Reuters) – A year after a gunman massacred 26 first-graders and adults in a Connecticut elementary school, educational officials across the United States continue to face the longstanding question of how to best protect their students. Principals and administrators across the country in many cases are choosing between technologies such […]
Treasury closes the book on GM bailout with final stock sale
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The Treasury Department has sold its final stake in General Motors, closing the book on its 2009 bailout of the auto industry. GM has been revived and is now profitable, but taxpayers are out more than $10 billion dollars. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the final stock […]
New Book "The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad" Sheds Light on Prophet Muhammad's Interfaith Views
Source: huffingtonpost.com No other leader in world history has been more scrutinized and ridiculed than Prophet Muhammad. Since the founding of Islam in 632 AD, Christians and Jews have described the […]
New Book “The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad” Sheds Light on Prophet Muhammad’s Interfaith Views
Source: huffingtonpost.com No other leader in world history has been more scrutinized and ridiculed than Prophet Muhammad. Since the founding of Islam in 632 AD, Christians and Jews have described the […]
Fed’s Plan to Taper Stimulus Effort Is Not Expected Until Next Year
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials are in no hurry to retreat from their bond-buying campaign to stimulate the economy and are likely to postpone any cuts to the program until next year, according to public statements by Fed officials and interviews with some of them. Job growth has strengthened in […]
USA: Blood Drive Honors Victims of September 11th Attacks
Source: wesa.fm “Muslims for Life” is holding a blood drive in Wilkinsburg Monday as part of a national campaign to collect 12,000 pints of blood and save an estimated 36,000 lives. […]
From the history books: FDR SHIPBOARD MEETING WITH SAUDI KING IBN SAUD: 15 FEBRUARY 1945
King Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) confers with the then President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on a cruiser in the Suez Canal, 15 Feb 1945 Ibn Saud meets […]
Freedom and Cleanliness make US the world’s most Islamic Nation
Source: Duluth News Tribune By: M. Imran Hayee Over Thanksgiving dinner a friend asked me a usual question: “What are you thankful for today?” My answer was rather unusual: “I am thankful […]
Whose sarin?
by Seymour M. Hersh You are invited to read this free essay from the London Review of Books. Subscribe now to access every article from every fortnightly issue of the London Review of Books, including the entire LRB archive of over 12,500 essays and reviews. Barack Obama did not tell […]
U.S. ‘security plan’: Another decisive cave-in to Netanyahu
By Larry Derfner |Published December 8, 2013 Once again, the Obama administration hangs Abbas and the Palestinian Authority out to dry. Halfway through the scheduled nine-month Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there’s been a break in the action, or rather the inaction: the Obama administration, once again, has sought to end the […]
U.S. 'security plan': Another decisive cave-in to Netanyahu
By Larry Derfner |Published December 8, 2013 Once again, the Obama administration hangs Abbas and the Palestinian Authority out to dry. Halfway through the scheduled nine-month Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there’s been a break in the action, or rather the inaction: the Obama administration, once again, has sought to end the […]
Kerry meets Israel PM for third time in 24 hours
US Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the third time in 24 hours on Friday for talks understood to be focused on security. […]
‘Nuke Iran’ congressman was on drugs: Analyst
Hawkish US congressman, Duncan Hunter, must have been “on narcotics” when he called for a nuclear attack on Iran, a political analyst tells Press TV. “My analysis of what he has had to say – and I cannot go anywhere else – [is that] he is either on narcotics or […]
Gunmen Kill American Teacher in Benghazi
By SULIMAN ALI ZWAY and KAREEM FAHIM Published: December 5, 2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES BENGHAZI, Libya — Gunmen on Thursday shot and killed a United States citizen who had been working as a teacher in an English-language school here, according to Libyan security officials and residents of the neighborhood […]
Internet Firms Step Up Efforts to Stop Spying
SAN FRANCISCO — When Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief executive, recently announced the company’s biggest security overhaul in more than a decade, she did not exactly receive a standing ovation. Ordinary users asked Ms. Mayer why Yahoo was not doing more. Privacy activists were more blunt. “Even after today’s announcement, Yahoo […]
From Catholic to Muslim: Congressman Keith Ellison first Muslim member of Congress
In 2006, U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison was elected to represent Minnesota’s 5th district, becoming the state’s first African American representative and the first Muslim to serve in Congress. To both […]
History Channel plans Jesus: The Lost Years series that paints Christ as a teenage EXORCIST
Source: capitalbay.com After the unexpected success of History Channel’s miniseries ‘The Bible’ earlier this year, the network has a new show in the works about Jesus’ so-called ‘lost years.’ Deadline.com exclusively […]