“The Third World is being required to pay a debt of $2.5 trillion, which is utterly unpayable under the present conditions. And yet $1 trillion is being spent every year on increasingly more sophisticated and lethal weapons. Why and for what?”[...]
Posts Tagged ‘world’
NEW ZEALAND HORROR
White supremacist slaughters dozens in mosques A self-described “Trump supporter” with virulent white supremacist, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrant views attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Thursday. Within minutes, he killed 49 people and injured 48 more. Police said th[...]
Trumpism Under Putin
JULY 4: Russians say Putin, military power & unique spirit make them glorious nation Victory Day celebrations on the Red Square in Moscow © Moskva news agency Almost half of all Russians consider their country a great world power, naming the president, the military forces and the spirit of the [...]
ISUS EMERGES
A new alliance is emerging to replace ISIS .. ISUS. ISRAEL SAUDI US alliance. ISUS is a right wing alignment between Israel and the authoritarian Arab nations against Iran. The US and European media are blind to this because Iran is demeaned as Shiite by the Arab states and by Israel. Iran is ca[...]
The Caravan Arrives at The Border
Just before Passover this Spring, a caravan of refugees began their exodus from Honduras and Guatemala, headed to the US border, their promised land. On Sunday morning, migrants in the caravan gathered at Friendship Park in Tijuana and prepared to march to the border and then ask for asylum in the[...]
Ignoring the Muslim Fight Against ISIS
While Trump demonizes all Islam, befriends the Saudis, and demonizes Shiite Iraq, just before America’s Inauguration Day tens of millions of Shia Muslims made an incredibly heartening statement, by risking their lives to travel through war-stricken areas to openly defy ISIS. Shia women, me[...]
A picture worth 100,000 words
From England comes this iconic photo of a Muslim woman standing up to white nationalists causing trouble at Birmingham’s Central Mosque. No words necessary; the picture says it all. (EDL stands for “English Defense League,” a far-right group.)[...]
What the world thinks of America now
Trump has drastically improved America’s favorability ratings in one country. The rest of the world thinks we suck. (Click on image to enlarge; click here for source.) [...]
An Abrahamic Answer to Israel=Palestine
The Abrahamic Union: a Confederate solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Yakov Nagen Yakov Nagen is a Rabbi at the Yeshiva of Otniel, located near Hebron. On the day of Shimon Peres’s death, my neighbor Natan Meir stood before 100 Jewish and Arab interfaith activists and spoke of Peres’s[...]
Nollywood goes Hollywood
NOLLYWOOD IS FALLING APART In a country where you can stumble upon crates of currency valued at about $1 billion at the airport, unattended, yet there are only 14 cinemas and the big attraction is not Nollywood. It’s Hollywood in Nigeria’s Nollywood turf. Because in Nigeria, if you want [...]