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Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?
On January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz carried a news article by correspondent Yossi Melman pointing out the role of an Israeli security firm, International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), in the failed attempt to detonate a bomb on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253. ICTS subsidiaries I-SEC and PI are...
Republican victory a rebuke to Obama
January 23rd, 20100 WASHINGTON — Tuesday's loss by the Democrats of their 60th Senate seat has raised serious questions about the outlook for the White House's policy agenda and spurred a rash of finger-pointing among Democrats over who bears responsibility for the very public rebuke issued by Massachusetts voters. Scott Brown's victory Tuesday...Harsher Gaza war looming on horizon?
RAMALLAH — According to several prominent Palestinians and Israelis, another major Israeli military assault on Gaza, even harsher than last year’s Operation Cast Lead, is imminent. But will this change anything and have the underlying causes behind the previous bloody war been addressed? A Palestinian woman poses with a...Zionism’s destabilizing force: “Israeli Exceptionalism” reviewed
In his new book "Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism," M. Shahid Alam successfully argues that the moral force behind the Zionist movement is a sense of Jewish, and consequently Israeli, exceptionalism. This claim of exceptionalism underpins what he calls the "destabilizing logic of Zionism." According to Alam,...
HOW YOU CAN HELP… Haiti donations
January 16th, 20100 The American Red Cross is contributing an initial $1 million from the International Response Fund to support the relief operation in Haiti, and has opened its warehouse in Panama to provide tarps, mosquito nets and cooking sets for approximately 5,000 families. In addition to Red Cross staff already in Haiti, six disaster management...
Bodies pile up as Haiti quake toll rises
January 16th, 20100 PORT-AU-PRINCE - Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. A Haitian reacts after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010....Suicide rate among veterans surges
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Suicides among United States military veterans ballooned by 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to new statistics released by the Veterans Affairs (VA) department. U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion 4th Marines walk by their vehicle during sunset at base Delaram in Nimroz province, southern Afghanistan,...
Hamtramck man to be deported, leaving behind six U.S.-born children
January 16th, 20100 A Hamtramck man who's been in the U.S. for 27 years is set to be deported next week unless a U.S. Congressman intervenes. Anees Sous, (second right), a Hamtramck business owner who's been in the U.S. for 27 years, is set to be deported to Jordan on Wednesday, leaving behind six U.S.-born children, unless a U.S. Congressman...
Dubai debts prompt review of Islamic finance
January 16th, 20100 BEIRUT (IPS) - 'The World’ is a manmade archipelago off the coast of Dubai. Developed by the Nakheel real estate company - which partly relied on the issuance of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, to finance the ambitious project - it has come to symbolize for many the vulnerability of the Islamic financial market. “The World”...Israel declares war on peace NGOs
JERUSALEM (IPS) - One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged. Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as Amnesty, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Trocaire, Finn Church Aid, Diakonia and Cordaid. The...Only psychiatrists can explain Israel’s behavior
Our wild world of crime has recently been sent for observation. From the bodyguard of the IDF Chief of Staff to the killers of their own children - all have been sent for observation. The time has come, as is the custom around here, to send the country for observation, too. Maybe with ongoing treatment from specialists, the diagnosis...Letters to the editor: Dearborn School Board meetings heat up over contract negotiations
Contract negotiations should not be in the press To the editor: It is unbelievable that a member of the Board of Education would discuss contract negotiations in the press. ("Weathering the storm at schools," by Aimee Blackburn, The Arab American News, December 12-18, 2009). The step increases Ms. Blackburn refers to have not been...We need a new flight plan
Nothing sums up the pointlessness, the prejudice and the unfairness behind profiling better than the following incident, which the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported in an action alert: "A Muslim woman traveler taking a flight Tuesday from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to Los Angeles (LAX) reported that...An odyssey for justice in Gaza
The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the International Brigades against fascism during the Spanish Civil War. A bold assertion? Palestinian children stand in an abandoned car in the...Muslims march against alleged Christmas terorrist
DETROIT - About 150 people gathered in front of the Theodore Levin Courthouse in downtown Detroit on Friday, January 8, waving American flags and wearing t-shirts bearing the slogan of the day, "Not in the Name of Islam," in response to the attempted bombing of Flight 253 to Detroit by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.......
Suit alleges wage violations, discrimination
DEARBORN - Employees of Andiamo Dearborn filed a federal lawsuit against the restaurant on Tuesday for minimum wage and overtime pay violations. Labor activists demonstrate outside Andiamo Dearborn in support of restaurant workers who filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Italian eatery, claiming wage violations and...Muslims meet with Macomb sheriff on bizarre death, genital mutilation of inmate
Mount Clemens - Mohammed Abul-Fazal Chowdhury Authorities have called the death a suicide. Chowdhury was being held in Macomb County Jail after being charged with murdering his wife. His attorney has asked for an independent investigation of the death. Macomb officials have said no evidence was found of the involvement of...Gaza activists return more determined than ever
When six Michigan Peace Team members booked trips to Egypt, they did so with the hope of crossing into Gaza and being part of a defining moment in the struggle to help free the besieged territory. An international peace activist waves to Palestinians upon his arrival at Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, December...
Cancer – the deadly legacy of the invasion of Iraq
January 16th, 20100 Reprinted from New America Media Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in......
Cooking classes at mosque big hit
DEARBORN - An enthusiastic group gathered at the Islamic Center of America on Ford Road in Dearborn on Wednesday to share their love of cooking as part of the masjid's Maa-koul al Hanna event series. Wanda Fayz (third from left) leads a group of women during cooking classes at the Islamic Center of America on Wednesday. PHOTO:...
A second Gaza war around the corner?
January 16th, 20100 Moathe Abu Rabeeh (R), a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who lost his leg during the three-week offensive Israel launched last year, uses his laptop at his house in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip December 22, 2009. December 27 marked one year since the start of a three-week offensive Israel launched in Gaza during which more......
Dearborn students need us
January 16th, 20100 As the budget crisis in Dearborn schools deepens, as tempers flare and public debates intensify, we must remind ourselves how important it is to stop the bickering and the finger pointing and focus on working together as one city to find a viable solution to this crisis. After all, it is about our kids and our future. Dearborn schools...
New bill edges comprehensive immigration reform back on the legislative agenda
January 16th, 20100 After months of discussion and strategy meetings with immigrant advocates, labor unions, civil-rights groups, and others, a number of House Democrats have introduced the first immigration reform bill in the 111th Congress. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR-ASAP) bill,......
