The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …
by Stewart Bell "TORONTO — An Islamic school that had been using teaching materials that disparaged Jews and encouraged boys to keep fit for jihad has lost its license to use Toronto District School Board property. The board suspended a permit issued to the Islamic Shia S …
Today’s To the Point show reported on an ACLU class-action lawsuit by 14 U.S. Muslims against the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security for the arbitrary and capricious manner in which it maintains the No Fly lists of those who may not fly within the U.S.&n …
We’re joined by Dr. Nabeel Hameed, who is one of Bahrain’s only neurosurgeons and among dozens of Bahraini physicians and nurses who have been arrested and tried for treating anti-government protesters.
Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we …
Why do conservatives hate freedom? The question may be startling. After all, don’t conservatives claim they are protecting liberty in America against liberal statism, which they compare to communism or fascism? But the conservative idea of “freedom” is a very …
Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being …
A Closer-Knit GCC Saudi Arabia has made a futile attempt yesterday to forge a closer union of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Arab Gulf monarchies meeting in Bahrain were only lukewarm to the idea. It's not that the smaller members of the GCC don't recognize the …
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I learned most from Nabeel during Julian's questions about Al Jazeera, which revolutions they cover, and why - a little back story of Middle East politics. Also, I've seen comments that Iran instigates pertaining to protests, and their conversation covers that point.&nbs …
I am a daughter of Jewish parents who grew up with a conventional set of beliefs. Although I had never had the "chosen people" nonsense fed to me, I was conditioned by certain factors in my childhood. My Jewish education wa …