Everything You Need to Know About Indigenous Peoples Day
Source: Time BY Lisa Marie Segarra Aug 31, 2017 Los Angeles just became the latest city to adopt Indigenous Peoples Day in favor of Columbus Day. The holiday has been gaining […]
US approves first cancer drug to use patient’s own cells – with $475,000 price tag
Source: The Guardian BY Jessica Glenza in New York US regulators have approved the first cancer drug that uses a patient’s own cells to fight cancer. But the drug is priced […]
Why Houston Will Never Be Able to Stop Flooding for Good
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Aug 31, 2017 The scale of Hurricane Harvey is unprecedented in U.S. history: more than 50 inches of rain falling in less than a week inundating a […]
U.S. Shuts Down Russia’s Consulate in San Francisco
Source: Time BY Josh Lederman / AP Updated: Aug 31, 2017 2:57 PM ET (WASHINGTON) — In an escalating tit-for-tat, the United States forced Russia on Thursday to shutter its […]
Here’s How Low President Trump’s Approval Rating Could Drop
Source: Time BY Chris Wilson President Trump loves breaking records, even when the evidence is dubious, but here’s one he probably doesn’t want to shatter: It is conceivable that he could become the […]
Here’s why people hate Joel Osteen
Source: The Washington Post By Kate Bowler August 29 Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch transforms into shelter Lakewood Church, a 606,000-square-foot megachurch in Houston where Joel Osteen preaches, is being used as a […]
Where are the condemnations of Harvey as God’s punishment?
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area in 2012, the floodwaters in Lower Manhattan were still rising when some pastors pointed […]
The price of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Aug 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The overwhelming majority of takfiri men who in the past two years mounted attacks against civilians in France, Belgium and Spain have been of Moroccan and Tunisian origin. Their hostility is difficult to explain as these North African countries have escaped the mayhem […]
When did protest against the Assad government turn to war in Syria?
Instead of serious political advice, the West, especially the US and their proxy Arab allies in the Gulf, then poured weapons into Syria – enough arms to destroy Syria but not enough to overthrow the regime, as one ex-rebel told me Robert Fisk @indyvoices 23 comments Bashar al-Assad has clung […]
U.S. Muslims are religiously observant, but open to multiple interpretations of Islam
Source: Pew Research Center For American Muslims, being highly religious does not necessarily translate into acceptance of traditional notions of Islam. While many U.S. Muslims say they attend mosque and […]
Houston Businessman Turns His Furniture Stores Into Storm Shelters
Source: Huffington Post By Nina Golgowski As many Houston businesses close down amid widespread flooding, one local businessman has opened his furniture stores as shelter to hundreds of displaced Texans. […]
Christian Resistance To Trump Is Growing
Source: Huffington Post As of yet, only one pastor has resigned from Trump’s evangelical council, and this Tuesday, many evangelical pastors signed the Nashville Statement, which in its fifteen articles condemn […]
Hurricane Harvey Just Set the Record for Most Rain in the Continental U.S.
Source: Time BY Nomaan Merchant & Juan Lozano / AP Updated: 1:28 AM ET | Originally published: Aug 29, 2017 (HOUSTON) — With its flood defenses strained, the crippled city […]
Professor Fired After Calling Hurricane Harvey ‘Karma’ for Texas
Source: Time The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Harvey’s destruction is “instant karma” for Texas because it voted Republican. Sociology […]
President Trump Hopes His Response to Hurricane Harvey Will Be a Model
Source: Time BY Toluse Olorunnipa and Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Aug 29, 2017 President Donald Trump called Hurricane Harvey a storm of “epic proportions” and said he hopes his administration’s […]
Secretary James Mattis Will Allow Transgender Service Members to Stay in the Military (For Now)
Source: Time Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Tuesday that he will retain the current policy that allows transgender members of the military to continue to serve while his department […]
Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. visit to military sites
Reuters International AUGUST 29, 2017 Iranian president Hassan Rouhani attends his swearing-in ceremony for a further term, at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2017. President.ir/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for United Nations nuclear inspectors to visit its […]
Another sterile peace mission
Aug 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah As many feared, the US team led by the president’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner ended its effort to resuscitate the moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace process without any tangible result. And yet, neither of the two directly concerned sides nor the Arab capitals […]
An offshoot of the Mormon church is drawing away members. But what does the ‘Remnant’ believe — and will it last?
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack Sandy • Don’t call Denver Snuffer Jr. a prophet and don’t view his Remnant movement as a church. Of course, it was […]
Judge: Prisons must recognize offshoot of Nation of Islam
Source: Associated Press By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Virginia’s prison system must recognize an offshoot of the Nation of Islam as a religion and allow inmates who are followers to congregate and possess its publications, a federal judge ruled Monday. The Virginia Department of Corrections has long considered the Nation of […]