January 31, 2017 - "Counterpunch" - Among Donald Trump’s first acts as President was suspending Barack Obama’s last – a grant of 221 million dollars in discretionary humanitarian aid to Palestine.

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has revealed that a vote will be held next week on the bill to ban the Muslim call to prayer. Ahmed Tibi MK pledged a “parliamentary, political and judicial” fight against the proposal, Anadolu has reported.

The “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill Muslims — and with luck, use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war — but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.

BERNARDS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Mohammad Ali Chaudry, a retired financial officer, has lived in this prosperous town for 40 years. It is where he raised his three children and where he served as mayor, and before that, as a member of the school board. It was also where Mr. Chaudry, an observant Muslim, always wanted to pray.

Ginella Massa filled in on Toronto’s CityNews 11pm broadcast and created a buzz after the broadcast ended

Aleppo has become synonymous with destruction and death, barrel bombs, bunker busters and shattered hospitals. For the doctors and rescue workers racing to save lives around the clock, life has become a blur of blood, death and desperation.