Investigations Reveal Sinister Motive in Terror Attack Shooting Victims: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu Salha, and Razan Abu Salha / Abu Salha Family By Alexandra Halaby | IMEMC & Agencies | February 11, 2015 Three Arab American students were shot to death Tuesday night inside their apartment near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The three are suspected […]
By Robert Fantina | Aletho News | February 10, 2015 There is an old cliché that says if one is not concerned about current conditions in the world, one is not paying attention. While this writer generally attempts to avoid tired clichés, this one certainly seems applicable today. There sometimes comes a time when white […]
By Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media | February 6, 2015 Capitalizing on the recent Charlie Hebdo killings in France, many European nationalists have been exploiting the tragedy to bolster sentiment towards their cause. While the cause of European nationalists is as legitimate as any other nationalist cause, and their misgivings about mass immigration merits reflection, […]
February 5, 2015 A Muslim couple in France has had their five children abducted by the state over unproven allegations that they are radicals who planned to take the entire family to fight in Syria. Nearly a dozen police and social service workers entered the couple’s house, on an allegedly false pretext, as the family […]
A Long and Arduous Ordeal By SAMI AL-ARIAN | CounterPunch | February 6, 2015 After 40 years, my time in the U.S. has come to an end. Like many immigrants of my generation, I came to the U.S. in 1975 to seek a higher education and greater opportunities. I also wanted to live in a […]
By Sylvain Mouillard – Libération - 28/1/2015 A school director has filed a complaint against the father of a fourth grader. He is also supposed to have inflicted “bullying” onto the schoolboy, according to the family lawyer. January 8th, 2015, the day after the killing at Charlie Hebdo. In a primary school in Nice, fourth […]
teleSUR | January 29, 2015 French police interrogated an eight year old child because he said that “[he was] not Charlie” in class, in the southern city of Nice on Wednesday. The professor had begun a discussion with his students the day following the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that left 12 dead […]
My personal reflections on the Campaign Against Antisemitism survey, by Aaron Dover – January 25, 2015 In order to say what some might consider the un sayable I first need to deconstruct some mythical terms so let me just wade into some taboo territory as though I don’t even see the no-entry signs. What is […]
Fox Noise has backed off the "no-go zones," but not our Booby.by KenBoy, all of today's stories seem to just tie together! Earlier today we were talking about the, er, distinguished roster of orators who have made their name in the Village by delivering responses to the president's State of the Union address, especially in the Age of Obama -- a list that will now and forever be headed by the biggest boob of them all, Louisiana Gov. Booby Jindal.
To the first: the end of the anti-colonial era was followed immediately by the not so rosy dawn of neoliberalism. Quickly, Arab nationalism gave way to Gulf capitalism; the always bourgeois PLO gave way to the neoliberal Palestine Authority. Simultaneously, the Arab working-class suffered a set of quintessential neoliberal losses compounded by what might be called the economic shock doctrine brought on by the likes of World Bank and IMF that came with the end of colonialism and the beginning of the neoliberal era.
