Europe

Hungary to Syrian refugees: Stay out!

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, building a wall along the Serbian border and herding migrants into detainment camps, warned Syrian refugees to stay in Turkey.

North America

Gullah nation hit hard by Charleston massacre

Some of those slain at Charleston's Mother Emanuel church were members of the Gullah people, a "nation within a nation" that preserves West African cultural traditions.

North America

From Charleston to Rhodesia…

The Charleston massacre suspect's Facebook photo shows him with the flags of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia—as the Confederate flag flies at South Carolina's statehouse.

North America

Christian terror plot on Catskill Muslims

A Sufi cleric who is a vocal critic of fundamentalist Islam is targeted by a fundamentalist Christian preacher who sought to massacre the Sufi's community in upstate New York.

Europe

Greece: populist bloc with xenophobes

Syriza needs anti-austerity partners for its economic program, but its alliance with the anti-immigrant Independent Greeks further mainstreams very dangerous politics.

Europe

UN meeting on anti-Semitism… Oy vey

The UN hearings on anti-Semitism will certainly enflame anti-Semitism—affording Israel the opportunity for propaganda exploitation, and for Jew-haters to exploit the backlash.

Europe

Sweden: Muslims under attack —and Jews

The Christmas night fire-bombing of a mosque in Sweden follows weeks of mounting threats and attacks against Jews in cities across the Scandinavian country.

The Caribbean

Assata Shakur as political football

The US political right uses Assata Shakur to take a hit at Obama's Cuba opening while simultaneously getting subliminal licks in at the Black Lives Matter protests.