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Shadow armies: The unseen, but real U.S. war in Africa
January 12th, 20180 By Ramzy Baroud There is a real — but largely concealed — war which is taking place throughout the African continent. It involves the United States, an invigorated Russia and a rising China. The outcome of the war is likely to define the future of the continent and its global outlook. It is easy to pin the blame on President...
Ahed Tamimi offers Israelis a lesson worthy of Gandhi
January 12th, 20181 By Jonathan Cook Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticized Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Eventually, colonized peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them....
Damn it! This is cultural genocide, Tabouli is ours!
January 12th, 20180 By James Zogby Between Christmas and New Year's Day, I became embroiled in what The Jerusalem Post termed a "Twitter war", which it claimed "raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic." What started the heated exchange was my response to a tweet by celebrity chef Rachael Ray in which she called "Israeli"—"meze, stuffed grape...
Ford urges 2,900 pickup owners to stop driving after new airbag death
January 12th, 20180 DEARBORN — The second largest U.S. automaker said it confirmed in late December that a July 2017 crash death in West Virginia in a 2006 Ford Ranger was caused by a defective Takata inflator. It previously reported a similar death in South Carolina that occurred in December 2015. Ford said both Takata deaths occurred with inflators...
Supreme Court considers putting brakes on police searching vehicles without warrant
January 12th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, Supreme Court justices wrestled with the scope of police authority to search vehicles without warrants, with Chief Justice John Roberts referencing the shiny red convertible taken for a joyride in the 1986 comedy film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" to make a serious legal point. The justices heard...
Judge blocks Trump move to end DACA program for immigrants
January 12th, 20180 SAN FRANCISCO — President Trump blasted the federal court system on Wednesday as "broken and unfair" after a judge blocked his administration's move to end a program protecting young immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents. A U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco ruled late on Tuesday that Deferred...
Bannon steps down from Breitbart News after drawing fire from Trump
January 12th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Steve Bannon has stepped down as executive chairman of Breitbart News, the right-wing news website said on Tuesday, after the former White House chief strategist drew fire from President Trump for harshly criticizing his eldest son. Bannon was quoted in a new book about the Trump White House as calling Donald...
House passes NSA spying bill after Trump tweets cause confusion
January 12th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency's warrantless Internet surveillance program, overcoming objections from privacy advocates and confusion prompted by morning tweets from President Trump that initially questioned the spying tool. The legislation,...
Federal immigration operation targets 7-Eleven stores in 17 states
January 12th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. immigration agents fanned out to nearly 100 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide on Wednesday, arresting 21 people suspected of being in the country illegally and giving owners a tight deadline to prove other employees are authorized to work. The operation was the largest worksite enforcement by U.S....
‘Changing of the guard’ taking place at both the Detroit FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office
January 11th, 20180 TROY — A transition in leadership is taking place at both the FBI's Detroit office and in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan. David Gelios, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit office, is retiring on Jan. 31 to take a private sector job in San Diego. Gelios, who turns 57 in September, would...
10 things to avoid if you want to stay healthy this winter
January 5th, 20180 1. Sugar Avoid sugar, especially artificial sugars like aspartame. Sugar is in everything that comes in a package, from candy bars to even the "healthy" items like granola bars. Sugar is a huge threat to the body because it weakens the immune system. When the immune system is weak your body has to work harder and this puts it in a...
Iran’s unrest: The government turns the tide
January 5th, 20180 Huge pro-government rallies sweep major Iranian cities where tens of thousands of supporters waved Iranian flags and pictures of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as placards saying "death to seditionists." TEHRAN — Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief announced the "end of the sedition" Wednesday as hundreds of thousands...
Trump threatens to withhold humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees
January 5th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — President Trump said in tweets on Tuesday that the United States may withhold future aid payments to Palestinians, accusing them of being "no longer willing to talk peace" with Israel. Trump said that Washington gives Palestinians "HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and gets no appreciation or respect. They don't...
Israel offers African migrants money to leave or face imprisonment
January 5th, 20180 TEL AVIV — Israel said on Wednesday it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in public remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment program, said a barrier Israel completed in 2013 along...
Russia denies report that seven planes were destroyed in Syria attack
January 5th, 20180 MOSCOW — Russia denied a report in daily newspaper Kommersant that seven Russian planes had been destroyed by rebel shelling at Syria's Hmeymim air base on Dec. 31, the TASS news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying on Thursday. At least four Su-24 bombers, two Su-35S fighters and an An-72 transport plane, as well as an......
WHO: Suspected diphtheria cases in Yemen near 500
January 5th, 20180 GENEVA — At least 471 people in Yemen are believed to have been infected with diphtheria, killing one in 10 of them since the outbreak began in mid-August, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, is embroiled in a proxy war between the Houthi armed movement, allied with...
Will 2018 usher in a new Palestinian strategy?
January 5th, 20180 By Ramzy Baroud 2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called "peace process", at least in its American formulation, ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has served as the foundation for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has also collapsed. The Palestinian leadership and its Arab and international......
Taking stock as we begin a new year
January 5th, 20180 By Lee H. Hamilton This may seem odd, but as I look ahead to a year we all know will be momentous, you want to know what I feel most strongly? Gratitude. I'll tell you in a moment how much work we have ahead of us to strengthen our country. But I'm mindful of just how strong we already are. A resilient economy has been performing...
Everything wrong with the reaction to Ahed Tamimi’s prosecution
January 5th, 20181 Where were the international calls for compassion, the reminders that this was a potentially traumatized child? By Hiba Khan Everyone now knows that 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi slapped an Israeli soldier. How many of us know about the events that led up to this? Telling half of a story can be more of an injustice than fabricating the...
Trump administration drops relaxed Obama-era marijuana policy
January 5th, 20180 WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Justice Department rescinded an Obama administration policy that had eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that legalized the drug, instead giving federal prosecutors wide latitude to pursue criminal charges. The action by Attorney General Jeff Sessions could have damaging consequences...
What happens if Trump does stop aid to Palestinians?
January 5th, 20180 By Ali Abunimah A million Palestinians in Gaza depend on UNRWA emergency food rations. That number soared from just 80,000 in 2000, after years of Israeli siege and military assaults on the territory. What would happen if Donald Trump carries out his threats to stop U.S. aid to Palestinians? If he means a cutoff of U.S. funding......
AT&T to launch 5G in U.S. this year
January 5th, 20180 AT&T, the second largest U.S. wireless carrier, said it would launch fifth-generation (5G) mobile network service in a dozen cities in the United States by late 2018, after international wireless standards for the network were finalized last month. The 5G technology is expected to provide higher speed and response times than 4G...
Buying or selling a ‘smart’ home? Read this.
January 5th, 20180 By Sheryl Roth Whether you are buying or selling a home, think about the technology you may be buying or selling along with it. Many homes are now "smart" — featuring Internet of things (IoT) devices such as connected thermostats, light bulbs, security systems and energy saving appliances. Here are tips for making sure you are......
Year-in review: The top local, national and international stories of 2017
January 5th, 20180 Here's our 2017 year-in-review of the most important news and developments as reported by The Arab American News locally, nationally and internationally. Community and local 1. Former Dearborn City Clerk Kathy Buda was convicted on embezzlement charges, after clerk office employees reported suspicions she was stealing cash from fees...
Russia: U.S. call for U.N. emergency session on Iran is “destructive”
January 4th, 20180 MOSCOW - Russia considers a U.S. proposal for an extraordinary meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the turmoil in Iran “harmful and destructive”, RIA news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday. “We see no role for the United Nations Security Council in this issue,” he said,......
