White House announces economic assistance to Arab world
May 20th, 20110 Editor's note: The following information was released by the White House on Wednesday evening this week: A Libyan watches a television broadcast of a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama in U.S., at a shop in Benghazi May 19, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemThe revolutions in the Middle East and...Photo of 8-month old baby getting TSA pat-down causes stir
KANSAS CITY — Passenger Jacob Jester, a reverend, shot a photo of an 8-month-old baby being patted down by TSA agents at Kansas City International Airport that has once again raised questions of overzealous security measures. Mainstream news sources have questioned the radiation delivered by...Conyers introduces PATRIOT compromise
Washington — House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) has introduced the "USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011," the House counterpart to a bipartisan bill that recently passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The proposal makes meaningful improvements to the...$5 million lawsuit targets Jimmy Carter for “attacking Israel”
WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The lawsuit, filed in New York by an Israeli firm, alleges that the book "contained numerous...Rights groups: U.S. government targeting Muslims via immigration system
NEW YORK —The U.S. government's aggressive use of the immigration system in its counterterrorism efforts discriminates against Muslims and violates international human rights law, said the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law and the Asian American Legal and...Washington showdown with AIPAC
Prohibited activities again catching up with lobby When former AIPAC director Steven J. Rosen interpreted the contents of stolen classified U.S. national defense information to Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler in 2004, he peddled it as proof that Iran was engaged in "total war against the...Saudi money wins Obama’s mind
Twice during the past week senior United States officials have let it be known that the Barack Obama administration has chosen to adopt a highly selective approach to the ferment in the Middle East. The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton couched the message in appropriate diplomatic idiom in Washington last Tuesday in a...Obama resists allied pressure for escalation in Libya
A rebel fighter walks beside a Grad multiple rocket launcher on the front line along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah April 19, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshWASHINGTON (IPS) — Even as the conflict in Libya appears increasingly stalemated, the administration of President Barack Obama seems determined to resist growing allied...Poll: Americans overwhelmingly sympathetic to Arab democracyuprisings
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new poll released on April 11 found that Americans strongly support Arab World uprisings but are split on whether or not democracy will be the final result, according to a new poll. When asked about the effect on the U.S. "if the countries of the Middle East become more democratic," respondents said it would...ACLU seeks records about state police searches of cellphones
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Obama secretly authorizes help for Libyan rebels
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Plea agreement entered for pair who conspired to strike Levin with pie
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator John Kerry said Wednesday that U.S. policy toward the Middle East needs a "readjustment" to reflect the new realities of the region, which is at a boiling point with mass uprisings. "Too often over the past decade we have seen regimes in the region chiefly as bulwarks in the fight against terrorism, while...
The King of Islamophobia
March 12th, 20110 'Witch hunt:' King's Muslim 'radicalization' hearings begin House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-NY) listens to witnesses during a hearing on "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response" on Capitol Hill in Washington March 10, 2011. REUTERSWASHINGTON,......
Zogby International polling firm merging with Brazilian company
The Zogby International polling firm, which was founded in 1984 by Lebanese American John Zogby and has become a trusted source of information about issues affecting Arab Americans and the Arab world among many other issues, announced that it will officially begin transitioning with IBOPE Inteligencia, a subsidiary of the IBOPE Group....Zogby International polling firm merging with Brazilian company
The Zogby International polling firm, which was founded in 1984 by Lebanese American John Zogby and has become a trusted source of information about issues affecting Arab Americans and the Arab world among many other issues, announced that it will officially begin transitioning with IBOPE Inteligencia, a subsidiary of the IBOPE Group.......
U.S. considering “full range of options”
WASHINGTON (IPS) — As more Libyan towns and cities fell to anti-government forces Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington is preparing "the full range of options" to respond to the ongoing violence in the oil-rich North African state. In a five-minute televised statement from the White House, Obama stressed that...Al Jazeera English in talks with Comcast
The Comcast cable network, America's largest provider, is reportedly in discussions with Al Jazeera English to bring the channel into millions of U.S. homes, the Doha, Qatar-based network said on Tuesday, Feb. 22. The channel has received a great deal of extra attention because of its unfiltered coverage of Arab uprisings in Egypt as......