Category: USA
Posted on February 11, 2012 by Xende Biradosti
Contrary to what the Turkish government would like you to believe, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, was not born out of thirst for baby’s blood. No, the Kurdish guerrillas in the mountains of Turkey are not all callous sociopaths …
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Posted on January 12, 2012 by Suzan Boulad (Syria)
On January 11th a disturbing video began to make the rounds along various sites on the internet, showing exclusive footage of a group of US Marines in full combat gear huddled around several dead bodies in what appears to be …
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Human Rights,
Iraq,
Middle East,
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Posted on November 21, 2011 by Nuha Serrac (Kurdistan)
In 2010, the Kurdish Youth Festival Committee established an essay contest to help students pay for their college expenses. Each year, we award two outstanding students gifts to foster their educational goals. If you’re a Kurdish-American student let us assist you …
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Posted on October 20, 2011 by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)
Obama celebrated the killing of Gaddafi. He did not talk about Gaddafi’s cozy relationship with the US and the west for the past 8 years including torturing people for the CIA**. On several occasions, the US administration said that revenge …
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Posted on October 12, 2011 by Nissim Dahan
In this increasingly hostile world of ours, it is only natural to search for even the slightest hint that peace may be possible. As I watched the news last night, two such hints came into sharp focus right before my …
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Iran,
Israel,
Palestine,
Regional Issues,
Saudi Arabia,
USA |
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Posted on October 3, 2011 by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)
Every day brings some good news on the shaking of the status quo in a positive direction. In my last book and in my writings elsewhere, I predicted that the next intifada (uprising) would be global. The Arab spring in …
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Posted on October 1, 2011 by Sarah Elgindy
Riding on the heels of his latest album release, “difrent,” Stephan Said has been keeping busy with a project of the same name which aims to erase the borders that separate us with the power of music. His vision, in everything that he does, …
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Iraq,
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Philosophy,
USA,
Youth |
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Posted on September 25, 2011 by Nissim Dahan
People the world over cry out for “freedom,” but how often do we sit down and think about what it really means to be free? Over the years, different people the world over embraced different interpretations of “freedom.” Janice Joplin …
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Education,
Ethics,
Foreign Affairs,
Freedom of Speech,
Middle East,
Philosophy,
Politics,
USA |
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Freedom,
Libya,
Syria |
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Posted on September 11, 2011 by Nissim Dahan
In this ambiguous world of ours it is often difficult to find moral clarity, even when it comes to seemingly black and white issues like 9/11 and the Arab Spring. And the question arises therefore: How do we bring moral …
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Posted on September 10, 2011 by Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)
Ten years after September 11, 2001, we still have the choice of continuing the same policies that lead to war and conflict or to insist on human rights and hold violators accountable. September brings back memories of atrocities ranging from …
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