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Poll: Arab Americans favor Obama by wide margin
September 26th, 20080 WASHINGTON (IPS) — With less than two months before the November elections, Arab American voters in the United States are poised to vote heavily Democratic, according to a poll released here by the Arab American Institute (AAI). The poll, which was conducted by Zogby International for AAI, a Washington-based lobby and public...
Neo-cons, ex-Israeli diplomats push Islamophobic video
September 26th, 20080 WASHINGTON (IPS) — A group of hard-line U.S. neo-conservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November U.S. presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic. The group, the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), is working with...Bipartisan group urges deeper diplomacy with Muslim world
WASHINGTON (IPS) — In an implicit indictment of President George W. Bush's "global war on terror" and the hawkish pronouncements by Republican candidate John McCain, a bipartisan group of nearly three dozen U.S. leaders called here Wednesday for Bush's successor to place much greater emphasis on high-level diplomacy — including...
ACC gala honors charitable organizations
September 19th, 20080 DETROIT — A wide network of supporters of the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) gathered at the Renaissance Center on Sept. 13 to celebrate the power of human creativity and generosity. At the 29th annual ACC Civic and Humanitarian Awards Gala, the group recognized Detroit-area charitable organizations and featured...
Arab American PAC interviews candidates
September 19th, 20080 DEARBORN — With election season fast approaching, the Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) conducted personal interviews of five local candidates at The Arab American News office in Dearborn on Monday. The goal of the interviews was to get to know each candidate on a deeper level through 15-minute question-and-answer...
Local martial arts school produces champions
September 19th, 20080 DEARBORN — It's often said that the key to success in martial arts is to have a great teacher. In the case of Master Ali Koubeissi's tae kwon do students, that statement couldn't ring more true. Koubeissi, who teaches at Kouibessi Tae Kwon Do School on Michigan Avenue between Schaefer and Greenfield in Dearborn, has helped many...
Leaders reject Wygonik statement again
September 19th, 20080 DEARBORN — Local Arab American leaders rejected a second letter submitted to them by 19th District Court Judge Richard Wygonik on Thursday addressing alleged offensive remarks he made during a July conversation with Dearborn Heights Councilman Tom Berry. After meeting with a committee representing the Congress of Arab American...
Public Service Day parking enforcement starts Oct. 6
September 19th, 20080 Residents also advised about new rules for loose leaf collection DEARBORN — Enforcement begins in Dearborn the week of Oct. 6-10 of the rules that prohibit on-street parking during Public Service Days. Public Service Days mean cleaner neighborhoods. To allow work crews the chance to deliver the maximum level of services like...
Sheriff warns parents about posting videos of children on Internet sites
September 19th, 20080 To a proud parent it may seem innocent enough: Your child is doing something completely adorable while taking a bath or while in their "birthday suit," so you take some video and post it online to share it with the world. No big deal, right? Not so fast, according to Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, who says that there...
Dearborn High School Football
September 19th, 20080 Dearborn High: (2-1, 1-1 in Mega Red Division) Last week: Lost to Southgate Anderson, 25-22. This week: at home vs. Allen Park, Friday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Edsel Ford: (3-0, 2-0 Mega Blue) Last week: Defeated Melvindale, 28-12. This week: at Inkster, Saturday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. Fordson High:...Vested interests drove new Pakistan policy
WASHINGTON (IPS) — The George W. Bush administration's decision to launch commando raids and step up missiles strikes against Taliban and al Qaeda figures in the tribal areas of Pakistan followed what appears to have been the most contentious policy process over the use of force in Bush's eight-year presidency. That decision has...
New police chief named for Detroit
September 19th, 20080 DETROIT — Incoming Detroit Mayor Kenneth Cockrel announced James Barren, a psychologist and counter-terrorism expert who has spent time training Iraqi police, as the city's new chief of police. Barren, who spent 31 years on the force before his retirement four years ago, replaces former Chief Ella Bully-Cummings, who retired...The Syria-Israel peace gambit
Few would argue that the indirect Israel-Syria talks through Turkish mediation, which were first announced 21 May, were a sign of political maturity and readiness for peace. In fact, while the discussions seemed concerned with the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Israel's desire for security at its northern borders, the true...Boycott group: McCartney embraces Israeli apartheid
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) says it regrets Paul McCartney's insistence on going ahead with his September 25th gig in Israel despite many appeals to him to cancel it due to Israel's crimes against the Palestinians, particularly its current brutally devastating siege of 1.5 million...Arab women artists create “Utopian Visions”
DEARBORN — Have you ever dreamed of a better, more perfect world? The word "utopia" represents a grand vision for an ideal society, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects. This imaginative concept reflects the human desire for civic improvement and perfection. In Utopian Visions, running from......
To hell and back
It was one of the worst killing sprees of the twentieth century. The actual number is still in dispute, but as many as 3,000 unarmed men, women and children of the Sabra/Shatila refugee camps in west Beirut were systematically slaughtered by Lebanese Christian militiamen with Israeli help for the crime of being Palestinian. The...The license to target Islam
The late Reverend Jerry Falwell's comment about the "impersonal" God of Islam is a dramatic example of televangelical deviation from ethics of interfaith dialogue. Pope Benedict's unfortunate lecture on Islam and reason illustrates the characteristically condescending stance of the church on the faith of Mohammad. President Bush's......
Car bomb, ambush at U.S. Embassy in Yemen, 16 dead
September 19th, 20080 SAN'A — Attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday. Sixteen people were killed, including six assailants, officials said. The U.S. said no Americans were hurt. Multiple explosions rang out outside the...Tzipi Livni needs three things
Here's one major difference between Tzipi Livni, the new leader of Israel's Kadima party, and her rivals for leadership: There are no war crime charges against her. In what must be a relief for some in Israel, Livni doesn't have to look over her shoulder in case she gets arrested when she gets off a plane overseas. Kadima...Israeli, Canadian water experts collaborate
Last month Israeli Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon and Efi Stenzler, head of the Jewish National Fund, returned from a visit to Manitoba with an agreement to share expertise. Manitoba experts will teach Israel about water conservation and Israeli experts will instruct Manitobans about water purification. Water is a major...Five ex-secretaries of state urge talks with Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five former secretaries of state, gathering to give their best advice to the next president, agreed Monday that the United States should talk to Iran. The wide-ranging, 90-minute session in a packed auditorium at The George Washington University, produced exceptional unity among Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell,......
Bush’s war widens to Pakistan
The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration. Senator Barack Obama, aware of this ongoing debate during his own long battle with Hillary...Slow Sunni integration could derail Iraq successes
WASHINGTON (IPS) — Amid reports that the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has launched a campaign to disband the so-called Awakening Movement, or Sahwa, concerns among analysts and policy makers here is growing that such an effort could result in a resumption of sectarian violence, if not civil war. Only a......
Teachers trapped between Fatah and Hamas
GAZA CITY (IPS) - A strike call has trapped thousands of teachers between Fatah unions and the Hamas government. The strike in Gaza called by the Palestine Teachers' Union — a non-elected body supported by the government of Palestine Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank — continues into its third week. Of...
Obama advisor stresses carrots over sticks
September 19th, 20080 DETROIT (IPS) — Dr. Susan Rice, senior foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, says the U.S. would make every effort to avoid resorting to a military attack on Iran under an Obama administration. Tough diplomacy would be used to curtail Iran's reach for nuclear capability instead of rushing to......
