The unspeakable attack in Orlando requires that we take a close look at how societies around the world view people who are part of the LGBT community. This is a community that has fought and continues to fight hard each day for rights that should be taken for granted first and foremost the right to be accepted for who you are. There is an inherent ...
The Orlando shooting has nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with US policies, both domestic and foreign.
By domestic, I'm referring to soft power cultural destablization, intended for export around the world to keep the natives distracted and happy. Think Disney on steriods. By foreign, I'm referring to US imperialist policies, neoliberalism ...
The shooting in Orlando, Florida, is not about homosexuals, or Muslims, or assault rifles.
It is about waging aggressive warfare overseas, empowering the domestic police state, and electing a warmongering President.
Dr. Graeme McQueen, founding member of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University, Canada and author ofThe 2001 Anthrax ...
Every conversation that follows an ISIS inspired, homegrown terrorist attack is not only predicable, but also wrongheaded. And given the tragedy of Orlando follows so soon after the violent massacre in San Bernadino, the conversations are now at a histrionic level.
Cultural and political opportunists will fixate on the attacker's ties to so called ...
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in Norway for an official visit, urged the necessity for finding political solutions to a five-year-old conflict in Syria and described the Islamic Republics four-article ...
Based on its principled policy of condemning terrorism and its firm resolve for serious and all-out confrontation of this discouraging phenomenon, the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns the recent terrorist attack in the US city of Orlando, Jaberi Ansari said, according to a report by KhabarOnline, as translated by IFP.
The ISIS terrorist group claimed ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Former wife of Omar Mateen, gunman responsible for the US deadliest mass shooting, said the New York-born attacker was an imbalanced person.
Yusifiy Sitora who divorced the shooting suspect after four months of marriage in 2009 told reporters I hear the media trying to make this about Islam but it is about imbalance, its about society,...
G4S, the world's largest security firm, recently announced it was winding down its Israel and west Bank operations.
News that a G4S employee was the gunman who killed 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Florida wiped almost $282.80 million off the value of the worlds largest security firm.
Omar Mateen, 29, a Florida resident and U.S. citizen,...
US President Barack Obama should immediately step down following the deadly attack at a nightclub in Florida, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says.
Trump made the comments in the wake of the Sunday terror attack by a Daesh sympathizer at the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida, that killed 50 people and injured another 53,...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Omar Seddique Mateen, the man suspected of killing 50 people in an Orlando gay club, called police before the attack, swearing allegiance to ISIL, NBC news reported citing law enforcement sources. The connection is still being investigated.
Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California) also cited law enforcement sources indicating ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Sunday shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, ranks by far as the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since at least 1982.
The 50 deaths, so far, are 18 more than the 32 people a gunman killed in the second most-fatal massacre, at Virginia Tech in 2007, according to data from Mother Jones that goes ...
Gunman who opened fire with assault rifle, and equipped with suspicious device, reportedly a 29-year-old US citizen
The gunman behind a suspected terrorist attack that killed 50 people at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando is believed to be a US citizen of Afghan heritage named as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old man from Florida.
He is alleged to have opened ...
A mass shooting at a nightclubin Orlando, Florida, has left an estimated 20 people killed after a heavily-armed gunman seized hostages early Sunday.
"Unfortunately there are people who died from gunshot wounds, maybe around 20, inside the night club," FBI special agent Ron Harper told a media briefing.
He said around 42 injured were taken to ...