Talks between the United States and Russia to set up a Syrian peace conference produced no deal on Tuesday, June 24, with the powers on either side of the two-year civil war failing to agree when it should be held or who would be invited.Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal accused the Syrian government of "genocide" and...U.S.A
WASHINGTON, UNITED NATIONS — In a reshuffle of top foreign policy posts in his second term, President Barack Obama announced on June 5 that his controversial and blunt-spoken U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, will replace Tom Donilon as his national security adviser.He also announced that another longtime aide on the National Security...Local
DEARBORN — Chants were heard throughout the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus early last month, as students marched in solidarity with the oppressed of Pakistan and various places in the Middle East, like Bahrain, Palestine, Iraq and Syria. The event, titled "The Silenced Genocide: The Forgotten Voices," was held by the...U.S.A
GENEVA — Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank violate international law, and the country must "immediately" withdraw all settlers from such areas, UN human rights investigators have said.Israel has not co-operated with the inquiry, set up by the Human Rights Council (HRC) last March to examine the impact of settlements in the...
September 22nd, 20120There's a true disaster going on in this country today. It's a crisis of no conscience, a revolution over race, a dance with the devil, a handshake with hate.
Nowhere is this culture of evil more evident than in the raging Islamophobia sweeping the country. Day after day, week after week, Muslims and Sikhs are being harrased,...
War drums are beating again in Washington. This time Syria is in the crosshairs after a massacre there (recently) left more than 100 dead. As might be expected from an administration with an announced policy of “regime change” in Syria, the reaction was to blame only the Syrian government for the tragedy, expel Syrian diplomats...
April 27th, 20120Company's role in Israel's Operation Cast Lead against Gaza cited by officials BOSTON — The University of Massachusetts Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the UMass Foundation, the university’s investment fund, divest from Boeing and other companies profiting from war crimes...
A lyrical attack by Germany’s acclaimed novelist and essayist Günter Grass in which he labeled Israel’s alleged atomic arsenal and looming preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear installations a threat to world peace has triggered fury and controversy amongst Israelis. In his 66-line poem entitled ‘What Must Be Said’ and...Other Voices
Those who hoped President Obama might bring a new approach to foreign policy have been repeatedly disappointed. On Sunday, Obama had a chance to partially redeem himself. He failed. Speaking at the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), he declared, “I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from...Other Voices
Khader Adnan’s life was just saved. He paid a terrible price for his freedom. He paid with a health-shattering two months on hunger strike. Shackled, starving, and surrounded by Israeli soldiers, he defeated them all. The Palestinian people are often shackled, often starving, and always surrounded by Israeli soldiers.Yet they just...Local
There is no doubt that the majority of the world is unaware of who the Assyrian people are or where they come from. But Detroit director Andre Anton has dedicated his career to educating the world about his culture and the fact that Assyrians are still very much alive and active. He created Lamassu Productions to help enlighten the world...National Election
SANAA — Yemen needs urgent international aid to head off a humanitarian crisis, a UN mission visiting the impoverished country said on Wednesday, warning of "collective punishment" against civilians."We call on the international community to quickly provide humanitarian aid to Yemen during this difficult time," said a statement at the...
June 4th, 20110
So, it turns out Islam is a religion. Imagine that.
Granted, this would be considered self-evident by most of
us, but it has been a matter of great controversy in the Tennessee town of
Murfreesboro, where 17 people went to court last year to prevent a group of
Muslims from building a mosque. On...
March 18th, 20110
Security agents try to stop supporters of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi from protesting at the hotel where members of the foreign members were staying in Tripoli March 18, 2011. The United Nations authoriZed military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of...
February 4th, 20110We are at one with the people of the Arab world who are now standing up for their individual and collective rights. The Tunisians, the Egyptians, the Palestinians, the Jordanians, the Yemenis, the Lebanese - all of them and the others in the Arab world fighting for democracy and human rights have our full support as they attempt to break...
January 28th, 20110
A supporter of Lebanon's outgoing premier Saad al-Hariri prays at the grave of assassinated former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, during a protest against the appointment of Najib Mikati as Prime Minister, in Beirut January 26, 2011. Hundreds of angry protesters burnt tyres and blocked roads across Lebanon on Tuesday after Mikati,...
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November 15th, 20100Detroit protest urges U.S. and Iraqi governments to stop massacres of Christians
Iraqi Christians express solidarity with the victims of the recent Baghdad church raid during a protest outside the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit. PHOTOS: Natasha Dado/TAANDETROIT — Hundreds protested outside the McNamara Federal...
WASHINGTON — The Egyptian Association for Change - USA and the Coalition of Egyptian Organizations call on President Obama to discuss Egypt's future with President Mubarak. Mr. Obama's invitation to the Egyptian President to participate in the peace talks on September 2, 2010 does not address the severely deteriorating situation in...Other Voices
As a Jew with sympathies for Israel and the Palestinians, I did not expect to agree with much in Jamal Bittar's commentary, "Israel will not last for more than 30 years," (July 3-9, p. 10). But as I read past the title, I found myself in agreement with several of his points: that the 19th century equation of ethnic identities with...World
Omar al-BashirThe International Criminal Court added three genocide counts last Monday to the list of charges against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir in a move hailed by rebels as "victory for Darfur."
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that (Omar al-Bashir) acted with specific intent to destroy in part the Fur, Masalit and...In Our Opinion
In the last couple of years I have come to realize that the two-state solution is not likely to happen, at least anytime in the next 100 years. I'm not a political scientist, and indeed no expert on the conflict, but I do think that demographic realities dictate that unless the Palestinian people are given a homeland, a democratic Jewish...Local
Last week the government of Israel announced the launch of an investigation into the events surrounding the deadly Memorial Day flotilla raid which left nine activists dead. Many international bodies including the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU), as well as human rights groups like Amnesty International, are calling for...
June 5th, 20100
About 450 people from various ethnic and religious backgrounds assembled on the steps of Dearborn City Hall on Tuesday, June 1 in solidarity with protesters from countries across the world to demonstrate against Israel's raid on aid ships heading to Gaza in international waters that killed at least 9 and injured...
With Israel seriously considering how best to destroy Hamas (and Hizbullah and possibly Iran) and bolster the stooge leadership of Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian friends have been asking me what I think the Palestinians could and should now do to improve their prospects for obtaining an acceptable amount of justice.
A Palestinian...Local
At most every local gathering of advocates for Palestinian rights, one figure always stands out - a 74-year-old, Haifa-born firebrand always wearing colorful skull caps, wristbands and knee-high boots over baggy pants.
Yusif Barakat with a group of young Gazans
"I've been unique my whole life. I've always dressed different,...
March 19th, 20100This week the Obama administration – which gives Israel $3bn a year, more than they dole out to any other nation on earth – made a meek and craven request for Israelis to simply have a pause in seizing even more land, and to sit down with the Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded with a big concrete slap: the...
WASHINGTON — Last Thursday's vote by a Congressional committee condemning the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as "genocide" is almost certain to complicate U.S. ties with Turkey, a long-time strategic ally and increasingly influential player in the Middle East and central and southwest Asia.
The 23-22 vote...
