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Gaza’s children dare to dream
GAZA CITY (IPS) - Despite the lingering trauma of living under siege, regular Israeli military attacks and the consequences of a bloody war several years ago, Gaza’s children still dream of happiness and of normal lives. Palestinians gather around a destroyed motorcycle after an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern...
Government collapse throws Lebanon into worst political turmoil since 2008
January 15th, 20110 Another drawn-out crisis and possible civil unrest is feared in Lebanon following the collapse of its government on Wednesday, Jan. 12 when the powerful Hizbullah and its allies withdrew from the country's coalition government. Analysts believe that Hariri will not be renamed prime minister if he refuses to reach a deal that is...
Tunisian President Ben Ali quits amid protests, flees country
January 15th, 20110 TUNIS – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has quit today after more than 23 years in the position and has reportedly fled the north African country, with Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi taking over for the time being. The new interim leader called for unity after weeks of protests against the western-backed regime...Ford: 7,000 new jobs to be added; Dearborn positions likely
Last Monday, Ford Motor Company announced it would add 7,000 new jobs around the United States by the end of 2012. An estimated 750 engineering jobs are expected to come to Dearborn as part of the hirings. Ford is preparing to launch more SUVs and a line of hybrid electric cars. Ford reportedly earned a profit of $8.2 billion...Henry Ford Community College’s English Language Institute builds confidence, proficiency
DEARBORN —Could Henry Ford ever have imagined that the college bearing his name would one day be the gathering place for over 70 nationalities, all with one goal in mind: learning proficiency in English? Ford, whose father was an Irish immigrant, would be proud of Henry Ford Community College’s (HFCC) English Language Institute...ADC-MLK Scholarship essay submission deadline is Jan. 18, sponsors also sought
ADC-MI's Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Program has announced that the deadline for student essay submissions is Tuesday, January 18, 2011 by 5 p.m. The organization's 12th annual dinner and reception will be held on February 11, 2010 in Dearborn at Byblos Banquet Hall at 6 p.m. For information on the scholarship and an application...WSU should honor diversity pledge, re-instate award
Wayne State University surprised many in the metro Detroit community with a decision that was clearly not studied carefully enough. "Retiring" the Helen Thomas Spirit of diversity Award in the media due to political pressure was not only unbecoming of a respectable public university administration, it was also a strategic mistake....Israeli Mossad-linked Fash confesses in Iran scientist’s murder
TEHRAN — The alleged killer of a top nuclear scientist who was murdered last year said he was trained in Israel by the Mossad spy agency, state-television reported on its website on Monday. On Thursday, Majid Jamali Fash, who was the lead suspect among ten arrested, confessed to being behind last year's assassination of nuclear...Western-backed Ben Ali’s regime on last legs
Embattled Tunisian leader: No more deadly force against protestors TUNIS – A TV announcement was made by Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Thursday, Jan. 13, his third since unrest began, ordering his nation's security forces to stop firing on demonstrators as the country's economic turmoil has continued and protests...
Lebanese government collapses
January 12th, 20110 BEIRUT - Lebanon's unity government has collapsed after the Hizbullah movement and its political allies resigned from the cabinet over arguments stemming from a UN probe into the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister,on February 14, 2005. There has been growing political...Aoun says Saudi-Syrian efforts fail, March 8 ministers to meet in Rabiyeh
BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement (F.P.M.) leader M.P. Michel Aoun said Tuesday Hizbullah and Speaker Nabih Berri's Amal Movement have been informed of the failure of Syrian-Saudi efforts to break the deadlock over the U.N.-backed tribunal investigating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination. Aoun said a delegation of the...CAIR claims partial victory in case against Debbie Schlussel
This afternoon at a hearing at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in downtown Detroit, local attorney and blogger Debbie Schlussel, known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric that many have deemed extremist in nature, announced through her attorney Andrew Kochanowski that she had changed the name of a website she created with the same name...
SPJ final decision over pulling Helen Thomas award delayed 10 days
January 10th, 20110 The Society of Professional Journalists Executive Committee voted on Saturday, Jan..8 to recommend removing its Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, however, the recommendation must be looked over by SPJ’s full board before being approved. A final decision is expected to be announced in 10 days. The full board includes the...Vigil at Dearborn City Hall remembers victims of Gaza attacks
DEARBORN — A group of about 75 people gathered at the steps of Dearborn City Hall on Monday, December 27 in remembrance of the more than 1,400 victims, most of them civilians, of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza on the second anniversary of the attacks. Community members take part in a vigil to remember the more than 1,400...CAIR-Michigan sues Debbie Schlussel over trademark violations
SchlusselDETROIT - The Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan (CAIR-MI) filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Jan. 5 against extremist Southfield blogger and attorney Debbie Schlussel for trademark infringement violations. Schlussel created the website cairmichigan.com which may be confusing supporters of the group who wish to......
Alexandria attack has nothing to do with religion
I strongly condemn the recent assault on the sanctity of Christian places of worship in Alexandria, Egypt. This heinous crime did not target only the Christian community, who are our partners in homeland, blood and history in our dear country. Rather, it is a wicked attack on our national unity and coexistence. It is an attack on the...Wikimania and the First Amendment
Thomas Blanton, the esteemed director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University described Washington's hyper-reaction to Wikileaks' transmission of information to some major media in various countries as "Wikimania." In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last Thursday, Blanton urged the Justice......
Wikileaks cables: Israel exposed through Norwegian newspaper
Bribes charged at crossing for goods to Gaza A June 2006 diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks last Thursday by the Aftenposten daily newspaper in Norway said that American companies told U.S. officials that large bribes were demanded in order to get goods into the blockaded Gaza Strip at an important cargo crossing. One distributor...The U.S. media hit on Helen Thomas
In recent years, my faith in the power of dialogue in politics has been severely tested – as, no doubt has hers (Helen Thomas) – in an age where diatribes and calculated demonization chills debate and exchanges of opposing views. Once you are labeled and stereotyped, especially if you are denounced as an anti-Semite, you are...Tunisian unrest stirs Arab world
CAIRO (IPS) – As Western countries were busy celebrating Christmas and dealing with air traffic holiday delays because of snow blizzards, the tranquil North African country of Tunisia was going through events that would have been thought unthinkable just three weeks ago – public unrest that saw thousands demonstrate against the...Turks see U.S., Israel as top threats
ANKARA (Middle East Online) – The United States and Israel top the list of countries that Turks see as a threat, according to an opinion poll Wednesday. The survey, conducted by the Ankara-based Metropoll research company last month, found that 42.6 percent saw the United States as "the greatest external threat," with another 23.7......
Woman who threw pie at Levin charged
BIG RAPIDS — An antiwar protester who hit Michigan Sen. Carl Levin in the face with an apple pie has been charged with assault. An indictment filed Thursday charges Ahlam Mohsen of Coldwater with two counts of assault against the Democrat while he was meeting with constituents in August in Big Rapids. Her friend Max Kantar of Big...Helen Thomas back in action
Helen Thomas is back at work--this time, with a column in a weekly Virginia newspaper. Thomas was forced to resign last summer from her job as a columnist for Hearst after the controversy over her comments about Israel. But she has now secured a home for her weekly column in the Falls Church News-Press, which is located in Falls Church,......
Egyptian church bombing fuels sectarian rift
January 8th, 20110 An Egyptian Coptic Christian lights candles for victims of the January 1 attack on an Orthodox Coptic church in Alexandria, in Amman Januray 5, 2011.REUTERS/Ali JarekjiCAIRO (IPS) – It was a tragic year for Egypt's minority Coptic Christian community that began with a drive-by shooting at a church in southern Egypt, and ended in...SPJ board to discuss the fate of Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award
SPJ Director of Communications, Scott Leadingham said the group initially considered removing Thomas' name from the award following her comments last summer. He says the decision isn't being rushed and may be based on the discretion of both SPJ's headquarters staff and board of directors.The Society of Professional Journalists'......