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June 16, 2016 |Islam is Responsible Mantra
The blame Islam mantra, a favorite pastime for the media and political talking heads, got a new lease on life after the horrific attack at the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida. Immediately after news of the attack spread, media talking heads and political pundits began to pontificate on Islam’s supposed responsibility and the homophobic nature…
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May 25, 2016 |Targeting Chinese-Americans is an Old Ploy!
In December 1999, a grand jury charged Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese -American scientist, with espionage and passing secrets to the Chinese government about the U.S. nuclear W88 program. From the charges and the media frenzy generated by it, one would have expected that the government had a mountain of evidence against this very accomplished scientist….
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May 18, 2016 |Could Trump Win the White House?
The Republican Party primaries are slowly winding down with Donald Trump being the clear presumptive nominee. Certainly, the Republican establishment is trying to find a way to thwart the possibility of a Trump nomination, nevertheless all indications point to Donald at the top of the ticket in the general election . Assuming the clear evidence of…
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April 28, 2016 |FDD congressional testimony: McCarthyism, Islamophobia driving foreign policy
At the April 19 hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade as well as the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, the testimony from Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of the Research Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), was a spectacle that qualified as theater of the…
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April 6, 2016 |Israel and BDS: Assassinating an idea?
Israel’s attempt at assassinating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction idea qualified to be included in the theater of the absurd; if it was not a very serious threat by a militaristic state that is trigger happy. At a March 28, 2016, conference held in Jerusalem, current Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz brazenly called for the…
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March 30, 2016 |Islamophobia and the Ballot Box!
American negative attitudes toward Muslims is at an all-time high and the upward trend will continue unabated for the foreseeable future. More alarming is the fact that Islamophobia has met the ballot box, and politicians in the U.S. and Europe have found an easy path to seats of power by creating and riding a Muslim…
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March 15, 2016 |US Presidential Election: the Pandering for Israel Festival!
On March 9, 2016 CNN hosted yet another Republican debate which witnessed the candidates outdueling each other in who is in support of Israel and is ready to embrace their agenda. Pandering to Israeli supporters is a full time job for politicians in the U.S., even more so during the presidential elections every four years…
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March 15, 2016 | Huffington PostTrump and the Islamophobia Imaginary
“I think Islam hates us,” was Donald Trump’s response to Anderson Cooper’s question to the candidate if “Islam is at war with the West.” Trump added, “But there is a tremendous hatred. And we have to be very vigilant. We have to be very careful, and we cannot allow people coming into this country who…
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March 2, 2016 |Trump: Bigotry’s Triumph at the Polls!
The results of Super Tuesday primaries brought the Republican Party the unthinkable: the possibility of Trump being the nominee going into the 2016 Presidential elections. While it is still too early in the contest, the writing on the wall is clear for everyone to read and no one seems able to stop Trump’s steam train. …
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February 24, 2016 |Palestine: Where the Disabled Are Not Spared!
The video images of Majed al-Fakhouri, a Palestinian man in al-Khalil, who is 53 years old, disabled, and bound by a wheelchair of being thrown to the ground by an Israeli soldier is sickening and alarming to say the least. Majed’s “crime” was that he saw a youngster, 13 years old girl, Palestinian Yasmin al-Zaro,…
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