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Jiggery-wokery

Given that it has become the bugbear of all right-thinking right-wingers, does it strike anyone as odd that the word ‘woke’ is almost unheard, except in the protestations of right-wing people? I have…

Bryn Haworth 20 May 2022

Edward Blum, President of SFA, and a fellow at the Washington-based conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Special Treatment for Blacks

Since a White policeman killed Black George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two years ago, the relations between Whites and Blacks in the US have heated-up, mostly because of the oversized…

Majalla 04 February 2022

Has Woke Racism Become a “New Religion”?

A respected Black professor recently published a book criticizing extreme Black opinions and activities by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and by other Black organizations and groups. As…

Mohammad Ali Salih 10 December 2021

“White Supremacy” vs. “Woke Superiority”

Since the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by policeman Derek Chauvin, a White man, last summer in Minneapolis, and now with the start of Chauvin’s trial, the American political vocabulary has…

Mohammad Ali Salih 09 April 2021

The Racist Origins of U.S. Policing

Protests for racial justice surged in the streets of American cities this June, only to meet a police response that looked startlingly like warfare: police used tear gas on protesters, donned Kevlar…

Julian Go 24 July 2020

Tunisian Poet Anis Chouchene: I hope the Anti-Racism Protests Ignite Change in the Arab World

Artist and poet Anis Chouchene is Tunisian by nationality, African by identity and human by belonging. Chouchene writes about and for humankind, telling stories emanating from his community to defend…

Amena Derwazi 03 July 2020

A New Civil Rights Movement Is a Foreign Policy Win

Just as the world today is consumed with images of American law enforcement officers pepper-spraying peaceful protesters in front of theWhite Houseand pushing old men onto the sidewalk, so was the…

Chris Murphy 19 June 2020

Black America’s On-going Struggle with Police Violence

On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police arrested an African-American man named George Floyd. During the arrest, police officer Derek Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds…

Ali El Shamy 05 June 2020

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Jiggery-wokery

Special Treatment for Blacks

Has Woke Racism Become a “New Religion”?

“White Supremacy” vs. “Woke Superiority”

The Racist Origins of U.S. Policing

Tunisian Poet Anis Chouchene: I hope the Anti-Racism Protests Ignite Change in the Arab World

A New Civil Rights Movement Is a Foreign Policy Win

Black America’s On-going Struggle with Police Violence

Saudi Arabia scores ally upgrade in Washington

Basem Khandakji on exile, imprisonment, and purpose

Trump presents Ukraine with a ‘very tough choice’

UK chancellor aims to strike a balance with her 2025 budget

How Tucker Carlson put Arab Christians on America's map

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