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BBC: Saudi women to be allowed to argue cases in court
Saudi Arabia is planning to bring in a new law to allow women lawyers to argue cases in court for the first time Read More »
CNN: US Senator Brian Baird Discovers the Real Gaza, Speaks Up
Rep. Brian Baird got the opportunity to see the situation on the ground in Gaza, what you won't find on Fox News. Turns out there is a lot he had to tell the folks when he returned home. After visiting twice last year, Rep. Brian Baird is returning from his ... Read More »
Muslim Women to Mosque: Tear Down This Wall
(RNS) The walls that segregate Muslim men from women inside many American mosques took a long time to go up, and it could be a long time before they come down. On Saturday (Feb. 20), Fatima Thompson will find out just how firm those walls are. Thompson, 44, is planning ... Read More »
Gleen Greenwald: Terrorism: the most meaningless and manipulated word
Yesterday, Joseph Stack deliberately flew an airplane into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, in order to advance the political grievances he outlined in a perfectly cogent suicide-manifesto. Read More »
AlJazeera: Mossad, an Israeli chutzpah
As the storm over the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh picks up momentum, I am not buying into the whole business of lack of competence and ambiguity. Read More »
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: Our terrorists
Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports. Read More »
Antiwar.com: NATO admits Afghan civilians deliberately hit
Submitted by Mustafa NATO Changes Story: House Full of Afghan Civilians Deliberately Hit by Jason Ditz, February 16, 2010 Usually when militaries change their official story about killing civilians it is designed to explain away innocent deaths as an accident. Today, however, NATO took the exact opposite approach with Sunday's ... Read More »
Washington Post: Anti-Muslim bias runs through the work of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, former employees say
Some past commissioners, staff and former staff of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom say the agency charged with advising the president and Congress is rife, behind-the-scenes, with ideology and tribalism, with commissioners focusing on pet projects that are often based on their own religious background. In particular, they say an anti-Muslim bias runs through the commission's work. Read More »
BBC: Israel makes life very hard for Palestinians, says ICRC
Israeli restrictions make normal life "close to impossible" for many West Bank Palestinians, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said. Read More »