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Big three block Iran attack
The United States is in a huge foreign policy muddle in the Middle East. It wants to dominate and control Iran but requires the support of the world community to accomplish its aims. Diplomacy and sanctions require only a low level of support. On the other hand, to launch a military attack or green-light one by Israel, the United...McCain shows same intellect as Bush
New York � Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation. His time away from the Oval Office included the month leading up to 9/11, when there were signs Osama bin Laden was planning...
Back to school with new backpacks
August 22nd, 20080 Over the past five years, 5,000 young lives have been touched by Wayne County's hugely popular Back-to-School program started by Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano. This year, 1,500 more children were presented with backpacks filled with school supplies to start the school year off right. On August 20, as part of the...
Tlaib credits pounding the pavement for her landslide win
August 22nd, 20080 DEARBORN � In today's political age, it seems as if the best way to win an important race is to spend more money on advertising than the next candidate. But after her win in the Democratic primary election (with 44% of the vote) for State Representative in Michigan's 12th House District, Rashida Tlaib is giving most of the credit...
5th annual NAAMA walk for women’s cancer
August 22nd, 20080 One out of every four deaths in the U.S. is from cancer, making it the second leading cause of death in the U.S. More than one-third of these victims are women. On October 18, 2008 at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, the National Arab American Medical Association (NAAMA) will hold its fifth annual walk aimed to raise awareness...Hang up on Motorola
Advocates for Palestinian rights are calling for a boycott of Motorola phones. The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an advocacy group based in Washington, DC, urged its members to contact Motorola leaders about the company's role in providing communications technology to Israeli occupation forces. Motorola...Documentary on gay Muslims
Homosexuality and Islam. Can the two coexist? Parvez Sharma, a secular Muslim, has put together a documentary film about gay and lesbian Muslims who ask themselves the same question, not always with the same answer. One constant, however, is lots of suffering. Some people in the film do in fact marry, with tragic...U.S. deserter facing deportation
HinzmanJeremy Hinzman, who deserted the U.S. army in 2004 to avoid being sent to Iraq, has been ordered to leave Canada by Sept. 23. It is uncertain if he will try a further appeal in the courts. In July, Robin Long, another deserter, was sent back to the U.S. Currently there are nine other men seeking refugee status...The race for renewable energy sources
DUBAI (IPS) � As the world scrambles to develop renewable energy sources (RES), the oil-rich Gulf countries that benefit from high prices on fossil fuels are making sure that they are not left behind. According to "REN 21: Renewables Global Status Report 2007," though the share of fossil fuels in the global final energy...Spying law quickly challenged
NEW YORK (IPS) � Civil liberties advocates lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last month. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a coalition of other groups declared that the new law...Israel clears soldiers in killing of Palestinian journalist, youths
The Israeli government has announced it won't prosecute soldiers involved in the death of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana and eight Palestinian youths. The twenty-four-year-old Palestinian died on April 16 in Gaza when an Israeli tank shelled his vehicle clearly marked "press." Shana's final piece of footage shows the tank firing a...An awful shame
The 1980s were a difficult time for Arab Americans. Politicians returned our contributions, rejected our endorsements, and many effectively hung "No Arab Americans allowed" signs on their campaign doors. Back then, we wrote about this situation, calling it "the politics of exclusion." We fought back. We organized, worked hard, and...Little hope of peace after Olmert
CAIRO (IPS) � With Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent resignation announcement, the self-proclaimed Jewish state is headed for new leadership. Egyptian commentators, though, entertain few hopes that Olmert's successor � whoever he or she may be � will temper Israel's hard-line approach to the peace process. "Israeli...Newly released documents show preferential treatment for Israeli lobby
WASHINGTON � More than one thousand documents released under Freedom of Information Act filings reveal details of a secret battle that raged between founders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and top U.S. law enforcement officials. The new book "America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register...Gaza and West Bank in muddied separation
RAMALLAH (IPS) � Over a hundred Fatah fighters loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement fled to the West Bank from Gaza last week, fearing for their lives at the hands of Hamas, the Islamic movement which took over the Gaza Strip in June 2007 after it routed Fatah forces. The Fatah men barely managed to escape......
One-fifth of Iraq funding paid to contractors
NEW YORK (IPS) � As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors in Iraq and neighboring countries will cost U.S. taxpayers more than 100 billion dollars by the end of 2008, an under-the-radar Florida court case suggests that U.S. President George W. Bush � a staunch contractor supporter � is preparing to throw...U.S. officials admit worry over a “difficult” al-Maliki
WASHINGTON (IPS) � U.S. officials privately admit being concerned that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki has become "overconfident" about his government's ability to manage without U.S. combat troops, according to an Iraq analyst who just returned from a trip to Iraq arranged by U.S. commander General David Petraeus. Colin......
Arab American beaten to death outside Detroit gas station
August 22nd, 20080 DETROIT � A 21-year-old Yemeni American was beaten to death Thursday morning at a Sunoco gas station on Detroit's southwest side. Maher Almaweri's family told local television news stations a group of men beat him to death at the gas station located at McGraw and Tarnow Roads. EMS arrived at the scene around 1 a.m. and...
Presidential candidate to celebrate Labor Day in Detroit
August 22nd, 20080 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney plans to visit Michigan over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30 - Sept. 1. The Green Party of Michigan is set to host a press conference for the former Congresswoman from Georgia at 7 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the International Institute, 111 East Kirby in Detroit. The...Voting rights of Arab American citizens
No day is more important in the United States than election day. It is a day on which all Americans are equal as they go to the polls. Too often, though, discrimination, ignorance or incompetence take away the right to equal treatment and interfere with the right to vote. In 2000, the Department of Justice successfully...
Priest irks community with bizarre, offensive comments about Islam
August 15th, 20080 Local religious leaders believe they've successfully convinced a local AM radio station to force a regular guest on one of its programs to tone down his intense, often strange commentaries critical of the Islamic faith. Egyptian Coptic priest Zakaria Botros, known around the world for his controversial theological rants about......
Dearborn Recreation Department Summer Theatre Fest presents Disney’s High School Musical
August 15th, 20080 DEARBORN � The Dearborn Recreation Department's Summer Theatre Fest program will present Disney's "High School Musical" on stage in the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center's Michael A. Guido Theater on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 22-23, at 8 p.m. Reserved seating tickets are $15 and $10 per person and are available by phone at...
La Hookah Lounge spreads family’s love of good food
August 15th, 20080 WESTLAND, Mich. � When La Hookah Lounge first opened two weeks ago on Ford Road in Westland between Wayne and Wildwood Roads, passers-by didn't know what to make of it. Most thought it was a hangout spot for smoking hookah only, which shied many possible customers away. But once people started coming in and seeing that......
ADC seeks donations to continue construction
August 15th, 20080 DEARBORN � With mostly clear weather, summer is the best time of year for construction workers to make progress on their building projects. But in the case of the new American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) building on Chase Road near Ford Road, construction has been halted while the organization attempts to gather more...Book makes good start, doesn’t go far enough
Years from now, when historians look back on this decade and try to understand the first years of the so-called "war on terror," any progress made will be determined by whether the narrative of the Muslim experience is included in this historiography. If it is, then Moustafa Bayoumi's book, "How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?" will......