Muslim charities negotiate a minefield
Saturday, 09.06.2008, 01:28pm
NEW YORK (IPS) — As Muslims begin one of their most important holidays — the month of Ramadan — charitable organizations serving the American Muslim community are taking what some observers believe is a desperate last step to keep the U.S. government from shutting them down.
|
|
 |
Joe Biden's mixed up bag on the Middle East
Friday, 08.29.2008, 12:50pm
Barack Obama's vice presidential pick, Joe Biden, is a self-avowed Zionist. As he explained to an American Jewish TV station last year, you don't have to be Jewish to be Zionist. Of course, this discovery is not uniquely his. It is shared by the likes of John Hagee of the Christian Zionists, whose power is courted by Israel but whose views are decidedly anti-Semitic. Hagee believes, for example, that in the Second Coming all Jews will perish except 144,000 who will convert to Christianity. John McCain courted Hagee until some of his outrageous comments became too public.
|
|
|
|
Dems rally behind Obama, Biden
Friday, 08.29.2008, 12:50pm
WASHINGTON (IPS) — As the November election nears, Iraqis in the United States appear divided over their preferences for the next U.S. president, according to a series of interviews carried out by IPS. |
|
|
Local law enforcement of immigration rules debated
Friday, 08.29.2008, 12:48pm
Washington — Over 200 scholars, government officials, community and law enforcement leaders gathered to discuss the impact of local law enforcement of immigration law, during a conference August 21-22, in Washington, D.C. The conference, entitled "The Role of Local Police: Striking a Balance between Immigration Enforcement and Civil Liberties," covered a highly controversial issue that may prove to have dire repercussions on the Arab American community.
|
|
|
McCain shows same intellect as Bush
Friday, 08.22.2008, 02:02pm
New York — Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation.
|
|
|
Spying law quickly challenged
Friday, 08.22.2008, 01:43pm
NEW YORK (IPS) — Civil liberties advocates lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last month.
|
|
|
Page 61/74: « || ... 58 59 60 [61] 62 63 64 ... || »
|
