Eight Times Donald Trump Blamed The Media For His Own Mistakes
For more than a year, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has followed a strategy of diversion: He says something offensive or outrageous to make headlines, then covers up his statements by creating another headline-grabbing moment. And on and on. His favorite diversion method seems to be blaming the “dishonest media” for misconstruing his comments. But after […]
What Bob Marley Can Teach Us About Donald Trump
If he were alive, the Honorable Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, O.M. (Order of Merit), would have celebrated his 71st birthday on February 6. Even with the thirty-fifth anniversary of his tragic death from cancer in May, Bob remains the most recognizable ambassador of reggae music the world over. Marley’s timeless appeal and continued relevance stems […]
Clinton e-mail verdict: It’s bad, but Trump is much worse | Moran
Hillary Clinton’s supporters can exhale now. She won’t be charged with a crime for relying on a private e-mail server while she was Secretary of State. There is no evidence she intentionally broke the law, or that her carelessness allowed America’s enemies to gain access to national secrets. Nor did she engage in a cover-up. […]
Poll finds world prefers Hillary Clinton as US president
By JT – Jul 04,2016 – Last updated at Jul 04,2016 In this June 27 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (left) at a rally at the Cincinnati Museum Centre at Union Terminal in Cincinnati (AP photo) AMMAN — Citizens around the world are very concerned with […]
Why Eid is different this year for the people of Falluja
Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid this week. The festival marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. People feast, visit friends and relatives and go shopping in the days before the festival. The people of Falluja The traditional image of Eid celebrations is far from the current reality experienced by the people […]
Noah Feldman Tackles “Sharia’s” Case
“The Fall and Rise of the Islamic state”, a book written by Noah Feldman issued in 2014 has been one of the important western attempts that tried to discuss the dismantling of the Islamic state, and its return of in the political Islamic geography. His central thesis discusses the constitutional democratic regime, the link of […]
U.N. Rights Chief Calls Attack near Saudi Holy Mosque an Attack on Islam
The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday described the suicide bombing outside the Prophet Mohammad’s Mosque in the Saudi city of Medina as an attack on Islam itself. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and a member of the Jordanian royal family, delivered his remarks via a spokesman in Geneva. “This […]
Why a suicide bombing in the Saudi city of Medina matters
A suicide bombing outside the mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried in Medina, Saudi Arabia, rattled the global Muslim community Monday, proving that nothing — not even one of Islam’s holiest sites — is safe from terrorism. Four Saudi guards were killed and five others were wounded after the attacker detonated his explosive vest […]
‘Zionism’s Labour’s lost’
There are many challenges that the defenders of Palestinians’ rights have to face, but one of the most considerable is the accusation of anti-Semitism. Zionists always managed to convince the world of their manufactured version of history and of the myth that criticism of Israel is synonymous with anti-Semitism. They base their claims on the […]
ISIL turns ‘shock and awe’ doctrine against Islam
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is not a territorial threat to any national sovereignty. The group’s recent defeat in Fallujah and its resounding defeat by the Kurds, along with the sustained aerial bombing campaign by the United States, Russia and their regional allies, are clear indications that ISIL cannot maintain prolonged […]