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Kathy Manley> I Was One of the Radicals at the Mosque
In Defense of Radicalism by KATHY MANLEY WEEKEND EDITION MAY 3-5, 2013 Counterpunch.org After the Boston Marathon bombing some media outlets have suggested that the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural...
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[Video] Glenn Greenwald> Debating Bill Maher on Muslims, Islam and US foreign...
The HBO host has become a leading advocate of the view that Islam is uniquely violent and threatening. Does that hold up under critical scrutiny? Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk Saturday 11 May 2013...
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CAIR to File Complaint Over MN Judge’s Questioning on ‘Sharia’
“It is misguided and unethical for a judge to reference an individual’s general support of mainstream Islamic principles, known as Sharia, during sentencing to determine a defendant’s future...
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Ray McGovern> Boston Suspect’s Writing on the Wall
“Why do they hate us?” by Ray McGovern, May 18, 2013 antiwar.com Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was...
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Henry A. Giroux | Lockdown, USA: Lessons From the Boston Marathon Manhunt
“In a society where critical analysis and explanation of violent attacks of this nature are dismissed as terrorist sympathizing, there is a stultifying logic that assumes that contextualizing an event...
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Polly Mann: Islam — Common Myths Deconstructed
By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter October 2013 The excellent 200-page book, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire by Deepa Kumar (Haymarket Books 2012) could be described as a succinct primer for...
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Chris Hedges: The Post-Constitutional Era
Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control...
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Denial from Justice Department re targeting of Muslim and Arab American leaders
U.S. intelligence agencies target Muslim and Arab American leaders Denial from Justice Dept. is disingenuous The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund July 10, 2014 The statement issued today by...
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Kevin Gosztola: Deepa Kumar on Anti-Muslim Racism Behind NSA Surveillance,...
Over a week ago, The Intercept reported on five Muslim Americans who were targets of NSA and FBI surveillance. Why has this, in comparison to previous major stories on NSA surveillance, received so...
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The U.S. Media and the 13-Year-Old Yemeni Boy Burned to Death Last Month by a...
Greenwald: I have no idea whether this 13-year-old boy was “a member of al-Qaeda,” whatever that might mean for a boy that young. But neither does the New York Times, which is why it’s incredibly...
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Imagery and Empire: Are all Muslims Terrorists? Are All Terrorists Muslim?
From the article: This imagery actually serves to de-politize the political nature of tensions. It sanitizes the actions of empire, from coercive diplomacy with Iran and support for regime change in...
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FAIR: Mental Illness Doesn’t Explain Mass Violence—but Neither Does ‘Islamic...
FAIR: With the latest mass shooting in Chattanooga, corporate media followed the usual pattern of being ready and willing to label violence as “terrorism” so long as the suspect is Muslim—
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Glenn Greenwald: A Quiz for the West’s Great Free Speech Advocates and...
Greenwald: ...it’s crucial that these high-minded standards not be exploited to render permissible advocacy of ideas that you like while outlawing and criminalizing ideas that you hate — or, worse, to...
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Stand With Rasmea! Fill the appeals court, October 14, 2015
While the charges being appealed deal with minor problems on her immigration application, the truth is this is a political trial about U.S. Empire. The U.S. government is acting viciously, spending...
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Attacks On Muslims in the Midwest Highlight Violent Trend of Bigotry Sweeping...
Mnar Muhawesh stressed that Islamophobic violence in the United States is a reflection of decades of American imperialism and interventionist warfare in the Middle East, which may have claimed as many...
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Gosztola | Interview: MintPress News’ Mnar Muhawesh on Paris Attacks and...
Muhawesh: Those [attacks] that took place in Beirut, Baghdad, Turkey, and, of course, against the Russian airliner. They made the news barely and, if they did, for example, when ISIS attacked southern...
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Henry A. Giroux | The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the...
Giroux: The seeds of terrorism do not lie simply in ideological fundamentalism; they also lie in conditions of oppression, war, racism, poverty, the abandonment of entire generations of Palestinian...
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VIDEOS: New cartoon satire from Mark Fiore
VIDEO: The Blood Never Dries By Mark Fiore December 3, 2015 Click blue box with white letters to play. Award-winning animator Mark Fiore weighs in on the San Bernardino shooting in his powerful...
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Carol Masters | Take it on Faith: Militarism and Environmental Destruction...
Masters: His criticism was not limited to the manufacturers; Francis also called out investors, saying “duplicity is the currency of today…they say one thing and do another.”
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Parallel Paths: The CVE Program and U.S. Foreign Policy in Somalia
Building Community Resilience is part of a larger program developed by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice. The program is nationally known as “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE). The program...
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