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March 20, 2010
16:53
Omar Samhan: The Egyptian Gael Who Blew Villanova Away
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The superb performance by the 6-11 senior, Omar Samhan, just lifted St Mary’s College Gaels past 2nd seed Villanova in the first upset of the 2nd round in the NCAA Tournament. The Egyptian-Irish Gael scored 32 of the games 75 points (more than the 5 Aussie players on his team combined), while Nova doubled up his [...]
March 18, 2010
12:53
UC Berkeley student senate passes divestment resolution
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For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC Regents and the Student Government to divest from General Electric and United Technologies. General Electric manufactures Apache helicopter engines; United Technologies manufactures Sikorsky helicopters and F-16 aircraft engines. In addition, the bill creates a task force to look into furthering a socially responsible investment policy for the UC system.
March 17, 2010
20:32
Great Conspiracies of the BDS Movement
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The IAW debate on Al-Jazeera pointed to accusation of an anti-Semitic plot as a conspiracy theory hurled at the ethnically, religiously, and generationally diverse group of broke solidarity activists who came together to organize the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel) movement with the goal of achieving equal rights for the Palestinians people. According to your [...]
20:32
Guest Post: Goodbye Rush Limbaugh!
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Rush Limbaugh vows to move to Costa Rica if health care reform legislation passes. Goodbye Rush! America is better off without Limbaugh. The radio talk show host has been trash talking the president before he made it to the White House. He also attacks all of the president's domestic and foreign polices, and prays for the the president to fail.
20:32
Babies under siege
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The latest round of false US indignation over continued Jewish-only settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank masks another criminal Israeli policy that has the full support of the Obama administration: the illegal siege and mass imprisonment of Gaza’s 1.5 million people,half of whom are refugees. The siege is around 1,000 days old now and [...]
20:32
Who’d You Rather? Jihad Jane or Irshad Manji
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Colleen "Jihad Jane" LaRose is a 47 year old Michigan Native who's blonde with beautiful green eyes. Irshad "Suck on This" Manji is a 42 year old Canadian with caramel skin and impressively pointy hair. They're both Muslim extremists, just in different ways.
20:32
Harvard Students Rebuke Kramer and the U’s Support
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Harvard students put together a coalition of sixteen campus groups calling on the university to terminate Martin Kramer's fellowship for his highly problematic suggestion that humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees be cut to in effect lessen their numbers. Their statement in the student newspaper is an opening shot at a clear institutional double standard. more
20:32
Dalai Lama Gives Shout-Out To All His Uighurs
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His holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama risked the ire of Chinese Authorities when he came out explicitly in support of the Muslim Uyghur minority yesterday, Uighurs have fought for equal rights and autonomy in Western China. “Let us not forget about dem Uighurs in East Turkestan… dey be resisting oppressions and shit.” He told a crowd [...]
20:32
Racial Privilege or Persecution for Arab Americans
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According to the US federal government, this guys is white:
Yes, if following the categorization of race in the upcoming Census, which directly takes its taxonomy cues from the Office of Budget and Management, Sudanese refugee turned American olympian (Beijing 2008) Lopez Lomong. According to the Office of Management and Budget's Directive 15, passed in 1997, "whites" are defined as descendants of “the original peoples of Europe, North Africa or the Middle East.” Hispanic or Latino people, according to the same government agency, are of “Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture.” Considering that Sudan is considered a part of "North Africa," this would render Lomong and other nationals from Sudan white, while the famous Cuban below, could receive minority protection for her nonwhite federal classification:
20:32
Biden’s Farce of a ‘Peace Mission’ Too Much For Israelis
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Minutes after Joe Biden sang Israel’s praises for willingness to reengage in ‘peace talks’ and promised to confront Iran on it’s behalf, the Israeli government rebuffed the VP with an announcement to resume settlement building, effectively derailing his mission. A few months ago, Netanyahu came to Washington only to outmaneuver and outfox Obama and make him [...]
20:32
Shaykh Issues Fatwa, People Get Stoked
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In the thriving and exciting world of usul ul-fiqh - Islamic jurisprudence - comes another unbinding legal opinion (fatwa) that is gaining publicity. Pakistani Islamic scholar Dr. Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri recently published
20:32
Guest Post: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? The Butcher of Gaza is
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One year after the first anniversary of the war on Gaza during which the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] murdered 1,400 Palestinians including 400 children, the IDF and war criminal Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi will be coming over for dinner. The Gaza War was a three-week Israeli military assault that took place in the Gaza Strip during the winter of 2008–2009.

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