Man, I love it when a band brings the music! Not just the hard driving rhythms, the catchy melodies, or the dynamic conveyance of emotion through dramatic time changes. I love it when a band brings the music with pure passion, an edgy resentment for the status quo, and a bag full of fun! Water is Ri...

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Saint Angelina Jolie made a short visit to Northern Thailand this week on her way home from Japan. In her role as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Ange spent some time with Karenni refugee children in the Ban Mai Nai Soi camp in Thailand yesterday. Here is a cute pic of Angelina with some of the refugee c...

Please recommend some movies that would be good to show a class of ESL students. I teach English to refugees in the US, and sometimes in class we'll watch a movie in sections and discuss it. The problem I'm running into is that I'm having a hard time thinking of movies that would be good, so I'd lik...

Refugees arriving in the United States are finding the transition harder, with high rents, lagging federal aid and now a recession that is drying up entry-level work....

Israel has turned Gaza into a massive prison, and is choosing to prolong the cycle of state terror and prisoner resistance that goes with that, writes Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel "We have a great opportunity now in Gaza to smash and flatten them…[We] should destroy thousand of houses,...

It was the same scene playing in my mind as it was on the stage. There he stood, a young man at the Baghdad morgue, surrounded by dead and mutilated corpses. He tried to identify the body of his friend who was killed by extremists. As I was watching, I recalled the smell of the decaying bodies and t...

Read this article. check out imeu for constant coverage; aljazeera english for live video. give yourself a reality check: Some Zionists try to make the issue about the fundamentalist ideology of Hamas (although the Wahhabi fundamentalist ideology of the House of Saud does not seem to bother them one...

4-year-old Jawahir Anwar8-year-old Dina Anwar12-year-old Sahar Anwar14-year-old Ikram Anwar17-year-old Tahrir AnwarRIP Photo by Mohammed Abed AFP ive been trying to make sense of whats been going on in gaza. but thats just it- i can't make sense of it because it makes no sense. its simply illogical ...

Israel's invasion of Gaza has provoked a surge in antiSemitic violence across Europe with attacks on Jewish sites in France Belgium and Britain....