Trump may have claimed to kill al-Baghdadi, but he has brought Isis back to life
As for claiming that the world ‘is now a much safer place’, well let’s wait and see. These Islamist cults usually have a chrysalis leader waiting to take the place […]
Can church ever be separate from state at a Franklin Graham rally?
Source: Roll Call BY Mary C. Curtis [OPINION] CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After the Rev. Billy Graham became less a counselor of presidents and more a political player, particularly in the unfortunate […]
Donald Trump and Bill Barr Are Setting a Religious War Trap
Source: Slate By DAHLIA LITHWICK In a speech at Notre Dame Law School on Friday, Attorney General William Barr took a break from hassling Rupert Murdoch and running interference on the […]
A mother’s warning: If you have white teen sons, listen up …
Source: CNN By Sara Sidner, CNN Los Angeles (CNN)Joanna Schroeder has a warning for parents of teen and tween white boys: If you don’t pay attention to their online lives, the […]
I Read the Quran to Learn About Terrorist Beliefs but Ended Up Becoming Muslim
By Jennifer R Williams a foreign editor at Vox.com. Before joining Vox, she was a senior researcher at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. If you […]
Looking back to 2007: The $3,850 per second war and its victims: Bernd Debusmann
Editor’s Note: and what has changed? Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Assuming you read at average speed, by the time you get to the bottom of this […]
Trump’s disgrace in the Middle East is the death of an empire. Vladimir Putin is Caesar now
This presidency looks like the manic days that presaged the fall of Rome Robert Fisk @indyvoices In days gone by, I used to compare the Trump presidency with the Arab […]
Trump claims Kurds ‘no angels’ as he boasts of his own ‘brilliant’ strategy
President’s assertion undercuts US mission to Turkey aimed at urging Erdoğan to halt offensive Julian Borger in Washington and Michael Safi in Amman Trump calls decision to withdraw US […]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Developers of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Source: Wall Street Journal By Brianna Abbott, Peter Landers and Joanna Sugden The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their work developing lithium-ion batteries—power sources that touched […]
What’s so special about ‘religious belief’?
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Cohen Correction: A previous version of this op-ed misidentified the diocese that voted to ban the use of the masculine pronoun to refer to God as […]
Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One: A Robot and a Team of Irish Scientists Walk Into a Senior Living Home
Source: Time By Corinne Purtill It’s karaoke-rehearsal time at Knollwood Military Retirement Community, a 300-bed facility tucked away in a leafy corner of northwest Washington, D.C. Knollwood resident and retired U.S. […]
US ‘medical tourists’ seek cheap healthcare abroad
By AFP – Oct 14,2019 -JORDAN TIMES TIJUANA, Mexico — When Veronica Merrill decided to undergo stomach surgery for weight loss, she found two options: pay $12,000 at home […]
Trump is right to take troops out of Syria. Now they must leave Iraq and Afghanistan
Simon Jenkins The president’s motive for abandoning the Kurds is unclear, but the continued US presence in foreign wars is a disaster Mon 14 Oct 2019 Donald Trump is right […]
A look back to 2016: Wikileaks documents highlight sinister relations between Erdogan and ISIS
The connection of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan΄s family with the oil smuggling of the “Islamic State” is revealed after Wikileaks΄ revealing of emails from the Turkish energy minister, […]
Europeans are less likely than Americans to say they would be willing to accept Muslims as family members
Europeans are less likely than Americans to say they would be willing to accept Muslims as family members https://t.co/HEuH7oLDuN pic.twitter.com/heSVFfNA9z — Kat Devlin (@kat_devlin) October 10, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Trump and Erdogan have much in common – and the Kurds will be the tragic victims of their idiocy
Related video: Donald Trump suggests he has no problem with President Erdogan being ‘tough’ on the Kurds How can the EU stand idly by while Turkey conducts such vile business […]
U.S. says deploying more forces to Saudi Arabia to counter Iran threat
Oct 11, 2019 – By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States announced the deployment of additional American military forces to Saudi Arabia on Friday […]
A lawsuit argued the LSAT discriminates against the blind. Now it’s changing for everyone
By Ryan Prior, CNN (CNN) A man in Michigan has won a legal settlement that will change the test all prospective lawyers take to get into law school. Angelo Binno […]
Kurdish soldiers I spoke to feared Trump would be a treacherous ally. But the scale of his betrayal is terrifying
We are already on the downslope leading to the ethnic cleansing of up to 2 million Kurds in the vast triangle of land which they call Rojava in northeast Syria […]
Great and unmatched wisdom, Trump claims to Have
Source: AT As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over… […]