Arab Americans Rally with Syrians in Support of Assad Reforms
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jun 29, 2011
Hundreds of Arab-Americans and Syrians ex-pats demonstrated in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Middle Eastern, War & Conflict
Tags: arabamerican, arabspring, basharassad, dearbornmichigan, syria
New Peace Flotilla to Gaza: A Voyage of Audacious Hope
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 29, 2011
As an American Jew, I am entitled ( to travel to Israel, become a citizen, and enjoy all manner of associated rights and privileges. Meanwhile, the people who are actually from the lands that Israel illegally occupies are not citizens of any country.
Categories: Arizona Watch, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arizona, AudacityofHope, flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, WestBank
From WikiLeaks to SB 1070—The Rise of the New Global Hacktivists
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 28, 2011
In just a few months, as one expert puts it, the hacktivist group Anonymous "has gone from the background of hacker culture to the forefront of global politics.”
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Media, Multi-ethnic, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: Anonymous, Blackblocmovement, BradleyManning, cyberattack, hacker, hacktivism, hacktivists, JulianAssange, LulzSec, Sony, WikiLeaks, WTO
Poet Meets President, Sicilia Tests Calderón on Mexican Drug War
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 27, 2011
Last week Mexico’s President Calderón met unintended victims of his crusade against organized crime. He promised some changes, but refused to alter course.
Categories: Latin America, Latino, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: calderon, drugwars, mexico, protestmarch
Al Jazeera Wilts in Arab Spring
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 26, 2011
By becoming the voice of its owners instead of the people it was covering, the once popular Al Jazeera network has wilted in the Arab Spring.
Categories: International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Al Jazeera, biased coverage, losing viewership, muzzle, silencing different views
Savage Justice: Community Mourns Hero
The Philadelphia Tribune, News Report, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
In the bloody tapestry of senseless murders that happen all too often in Philadelphia, the expression ‘wrong place, wrong time’ is often used to describe the fate of an innocent bystander who catches a bullet meant for someone else.
Categories: African American, Front Page, Law & Justice, War & Conflict
Tags: community hero, Miles Mack, mourning, murder, Philadelphia
New Wave of Iraqi Bloggers Cover Stories Ignored in the West
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 24, 2011
While Iraq bleeds, Western media have ignored heightened violence. And Iraqi bloggers—in English and Arabic--are increasingly important news sources.
Categories: Media, Middle Eastern, Multi-ethnic, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: bloggers, blogs, Iraq, Kurdistan, news media, Northern Iraq, Riverbend, Wahda.net, Where's Raed
The Afghan Drawdown Is Long, Long Overdue
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
President Obama told the nation today that there will be a drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Categories: International Affairs, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Afghanistan, drawdown, military presence, no purpose, Obama, self-determination, troops
Afghan Americans Fearful of Quick Withdrawal
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
President Obama’s announcement of a speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan may not be welcome news for some Afghan Americans.
Categories: International Affairs, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: afghanamericans, afghanistanwar, obamaspeech, obamaspeechafghanistan
Women With Guns--Mexican Cartels Recruit Female Assassins
Frontera NorteSur, News Report, Posted: Jun 22, 2011
In Mexico, young girls and women work as look-outs and even soldiers for criminal syndicates, reports Frontera NorteSur.
Categories: Ethnic Media Headlines, Gender & Sexuality, Latin America, Latino, War & Conflict
Inside Mexico's "Murder Capital"
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera, Video, Posted: Jun 20, 2011
Once known as a model of economic progress in Mexico, the border city of Juarez has become infamous as the murder capital of the world.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Top Stories, Video, War & Conflict
Tags: aljazeera, ciudadjuarez, drugcartels, femicide, juarez, mexicoviolence, narcoviolence
NAM Radio: Weinergate & Gender, Iran Hiker's Mother, Journalist Deaths, Mambo King Hijuelos, Ahmed's Just Like Us
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 17, 2011
New Show: Weinergate & gender politics, Iran hiker's mother speaks, journalist deaths across the globe, Oscar Hijuelos's new memoir, comedian Ahmed Ahmed.
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Intersections, Law & Justice, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Religion, South Asian, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: #weinergate, 2012 project, ahmed ahmed, anthony weiner, chauncey bailey, cindy hickey, death, divorce, documentary, gender, huma abedin, iran, journalist, just like us, mambo kings, mary hughes, memoir, oscar hijuelos, politics, resign, resignation, shane bauer, thoughts without cigarettes, weinergate
The True Cost of Oil: Revisiting the Conflict in the Niger Delta
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 13, 2011
As uprisings in the Middle East send the price of petroleum soaring, a symposium addressed the much higher price paid by the Ogoni people in Nigeria's long relationship with Shell Oil.
Categories: African, Environment, Front Page, International Affairs, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: americanuniversity, KenSaro-Wiwa, NigerDelta, Ogoni, Ogoniland, oilpollution, ShellOil
Vietnam Announces Live-Fire Naval Exercises Following Maritime Disputes with China
Talk.Onevietnam.org, News Report, Posted: Jun 10, 2011
Competing claims with China over ownership of the Spratly and Paracel Islands (Truong Sa and Hoang Sa) have been both a domestic and foreign relations issue for Vietnam. Heated sentiments over a perceived timidness to Vietnam’s northern neighbor inspired pockets of protests in Ha Noi earlier this week, and diplomatic spars with China have followed.
Categories: Asian, Ethnic Media Headlines, International Affairs, War & Conflict
Tags: beijing, china, disupute, hanoi, naval, oil, philippines, south china sea, spratly, US, vietnam
NAM Radio: Al Jazeera's Arab Spring Coverage, Redistricting Guide, Vietnamese American Lit, World Diets
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Jun 10, 2011
New Show: Al Jazeera's Arab Spring coverage, a guide to redistricting and prison gerrymandering, Vietnamese American literature, and world diets.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Eye on Egypt , Gender & Sexuality, Immigration, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Redistricting, Top Stories, War & Conflict, food
Tags: al jazeera, arab, arab spring, around the world in 80 diets, bahrain, california, coverage, faith a'luisio, gerrymander, gerrymandering, isabelle thuy pelaud, middle east, north carolina, peter menzel, prison, prison gerrymandering, redistricting, reporting, reputation, syria, this is all i choose to tell, vietnamese american, what i eat
Community Addresses Forgotten Violence in Bahrain
The Arab American News, News Report, Posted: Jun 08, 2011
Community leaders and activists in Dearborn, Michigan recently met to address ongoing violence in Bahrain and the minimal attention its receiving.
Categories: Front Page, Media, Middle Eastern, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Arab, Arab Spring, Arab-American, Bahrain, Dearborn, Michigan
New Evidence Could Win Medal of Honor for Black WWI Hero
Black America Web, News Feature, Posted: Jun 05, 2011
Almost a century ago, the incomparable heroism of Henry Lincoln Johnson and the famous "Harlem Hellcats" instilled pride and hope in black Americans seeking political and economic justice.
Categories: African American, Ethnic Media Network, Law & Justice, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, Veterans, War & Conflict
Tags: CongressionalMedalofHonor, HarlemHellcats, HenryLincolnJohnson, WorldWarI
Activist: U.S. Guns, Government Failures Threaten Mexico's Future
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jun 04, 2011
While Mexico and the U.S. have squandered billions fighting the war on drugs, the real culprits are American guns and Mexico’s failure to ensure the safety and education of its citizens, activist Javier Sicilia says.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Calderon, drugwars, GlobalExchange, guns, JavierSicilia, Mexico, U.S.
Pentagon Using Drug Wars as Excuse to Build Bases in Latin America
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
Under the auspices of the drug war, the United States is returning to its historical pattern of using Central America and the Caribbean for its own military and strategic purposes.
Categories: Caribbean, International Affairs, Latin America, Latino, Law & Justice, Multi-ethnic, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: Belize, Colombia, counter-narco-terrism, drugwars, ElSalvador, Guatemala, Honduras, militarybases, pentagon, USmilitary
No Evidence of an Iranian Bomb, Yet the Attacks on Iran Continue
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Jun 03, 2011
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Seymour Hersh has once again created controversy with a New Yorker article debunking the evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon.
Categories: Front Page, International Affairs, Media, Middle Eastern, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Science & Technology, Top Stories, War & Conflict
Tags: IAEA, Institute for Science and International Security, InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency, Iran, Iranianbomb, ISIS, nuclearweapon, SeymourHersh