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Deutsche Welle conference: panel on the arms industry and ethics

Founded in 2007, this Conference/Forum takes place at the World Conference Center, Bonn, Germany and over the duration of the days of this international conference an opportunity is presented for representatives from media, politics and civil society to exchange ideas…

Israel is an omnipresent problem for Palestinians

Jason B. Vagliano of Palestine Advocacy Project: Israel is an omnipresent problem for Palestinians By Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik. In the following  interview about the Palestine Advocacy Project where I spoke with  Jason B. Vagliano, I would like to begin by thanking Jason so…

Sharmin Sadequee on Face 2 Face

On this show we discussed with Sharmin Sadequee, about being Muslim in the U.S., the extension of a law called “providing material support for terrorism” and about her worked with the Bangladeshi community requesting Political Asylum. More links: Facebook:  Justice…

Propaganda and media bias the subject of Global Media Forum panel “Selective Truth”

Deutsche Welle / Press Release / Propaganda and media bias the subject of Global Media Forum panel “Selective Truth” Freedom of expression and media bias was the topic of a debate at the Global Media Forum on Monday, June 13,…

Milagro Sala: repression in Argentina

Concerning “La situación de Milagro Sala” – the situation of Milagro Sala – this has been highlighted in the Argentinian media, as Jorge D’Alesio  informed Pressenza via the Humanist International in a report titled “The state of democracy in Jujuy”…

New Cold War between Russia and the West?

George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He argued that “the surface of…

After Orlando, LGBTQ Muslims call for resistance to ‘forces of hatred’

‘We reject attempts to perpetuate hatred against our LGBTQ communities as well as our Muslim communities’ by Nadia Prupis, staff writer for Common Dreams In the wake of Sunday’s horrific mass shooting in Orlando, LGBTQ Muslims are speaking out with…

India: When Muslim boy tops State level examination

An Assamese Muslim student tops the Secondary Education Board of Assam conducted High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) examination, which may not make a national headline, but if the boy appears the important tenth standard examination from a Hindu culture based…

Battle for Fallujah: Protests needed on violations of humanitarian law

In simultaneous, if not necessarily coordinated operations, there are attacks against the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh in its Arabic abbreviation) in Syria and Iraq. ISIS had, in practice, abolished the frontier between Iraq and Syria which…

Shooter at Pulse Nightclub Purchased Guns, Including AR-15, Legally

One of the guns used by Mateen at the Pulse nightclub was an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. The gun was also used in the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School; the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater; and at the Inland Regional Center…

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