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Yuram writes perspectives on Islam, social justice, economics and politics from the viewpoint of an American convert to Shia Islam, focusing on the deleterious role played by the U.S. in the Middle East and elsewhere.  A dissenting voice from the “Belly of the
Beast”, he lives in Denver, Colorado and can be reached at yuram@sahafa.com. 

The NSA: Operation Enduring Eavesdropping
08 April, 2012

National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland USA                         National Security Agency Headquarters

“A large measure of sacrifice and discipline will be demanded of the American people. They will be asked to give up some of the benefits which they have come to associate with their freedoms,” wrote the authors of United States National Security Council Report 68 dated 14 April 1950.[1]  One of the benefits associated with freedom that American citizens have been asked to give up by the U.S. government is their privacy and soon, no electronic form of communication between individuals or businesses will escape the scrutiny of the so-called intelligence community.

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America: On the wrong side of the world revolution
04 March, 2012

Protesters Gather in Pearl Roundabout Bahrain"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."--Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 4 April 1967.[1]

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Visions of Violence in Defense of the Dollar
03 February, 2012

GBU-57B 30000-pound massive ordnance penetrator "In contrast to the murderous vision of violent extremists, we are joining with allies and partners around the world to build their capacity to promote security, prosperity, and human dignity," wrote U.S. President Barack Obama in a document entitled “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership”.[i]

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Questions from a “Loyal American”
23 November, 2011

“Islam is a violent religion. That is why we are punishing them and will continue to do so for many years until they reform their idiotic aggressive and violent religion,” writes one “loyal American citizen”, unleashing a virulent polemic against Islam and Muslims. (More)

The Pitfalls of Persuasion
17 January, 2011

By Yuram Abdullah Weiler

2011-01-15

“What is the morality of subordinating truth to cheerfulness in keeping the citizen posted on the state of his nation?”[i]author Vance Packard presciently asks in 1957. (More)

Breaking the Stranglehold
23 October, 2010

 “The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ (PCHR) longstanding experience has resulted in the conclusion that Israel is genuinely unwilling to fulfil its international legal obligations, and to investigate –and if appropriate prosecute – all those suspected of committing serious violations of international law,”[i] declares the PCHR in its report. (More)

Somewhere in the War Zone
02 August, 2010

Yuram Abdullah“O mankind! We created you from a single pair, a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may get to know each other (not for you to despise each other).” The Holy Quran, Surah al-Hujurat, 49:13.[1]

Commenting on this verse, Agha Pooya and S.V. Mir Ahmed Ali write, “This verse deals with the natural brotherhood of man,”[2]adding that it “renders null and void all distinctions based on race, color, caste and social position.[3]” (More)

Mediterranean Massacre
14 June, 2010

“History has shown that as long as Israel is allowed to act with impunity, it will continue to violate international law. It is innocent Palestinian civilians who continue to suffer the horrific consequences,” stated the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.[i] (More)

A Pashtun Paradox from Peshawar
31 May, 2010

“The real problem with American society is that we’re supremely greedy, stupid and lazy when it comes to our politics and government. Most of us invest next to nothing in thinking about issues and voting intelligently, let alone other more robust forms of political participation,” said Dr. David Michael Green, Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University in New York.[i] (More)

Nuclear Wisdom
29 November, 2009

“The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war,” declared Nobel Peace Prize laureate Linus Pauling in a lecture presented in December of 1963.[i] (More)

Armchair Terrorist?
09 March, 2009

“All I am asking for is to be treated like every other person in the United States who is accused of a crime, including terrorism, and to be given a fair trial in an American court," pleaded Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, an alleged terrorist held for over 5 years without a trial in isolation at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina.[i] (More)

Shabbat Shalom!
02 January, 2009

The traditional Saturday greeting among Jews of all varieties from secular to religious, “Shabbat Shalom” literally means “A Sabbath of peace.”  However, on Saturday, 27 December 2008, there was no Sabbath of peace in Gaza, as US-financed Israeli F-16 warplanes[1] unloaded their lethal cargos of US manufactured GB-39 bunker buster bombs[2] on innocent Palestinians.  (More)

Quantum Change or Short Changed?
26 November, 2008

“In 2008, as in previous election years, serious candidates for the highest office in the land will go to considerable lengths to express their deep personal commitment to one foreign country—Israel—as well as their determination to maintain unyielding U.S. support for the Jewish state,” conjectured John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard in 2007.[i] (More)

Reversing the Raw Deal
28 October, 2008

"We have come a great distance in seventy-five years; from the New Deal to the Raw Deal, from having nothing to fear but fear itself, to being afraid of everything. We traded democracy's warm heart containing the ideals of faith, fairness and frugality, for the greedy, cold calculations of the Dow Jones ticker.” - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) 3 October 2008.[i]

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The End of Enron Economics?
26 September, 2008

 “This is a wonderful outcome for a great number of our employees that will preserve and strengthen our terrific franchise,” - Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive

Officer of Lehman Brothers on the Barclay takeover.[i] (More)

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