Issues & Events
  • A Heavenly Marriage & Importance of Family Day

    A Heavenly Marriage & Importance of Family Day

    Aug 13, 2018 04:35

    Salaam and heartiest felicitations to you all on a very auspicious day. Today, the 1st of the month of Zil-Hijjah is the anniversary of the blessed marriage of the noblest-ever pair.

  • GM threatens plant shutdowns and layoffs as car sales fall

    GM threatens plant shutdowns and layoffs as car sales fall

    Aug 12, 2018 12:11

    The United Auto Workers and General Motors are reportedly collaborating to close one or more of the company’s five remaining car assembly plants and throw thousands more workers onto the unemployment lines as car sales continue to fall.

  • California fires, now largest in state history

    California fires, now largest in state history

    Aug 12, 2018 12:08

    California’s wildfires are continuing to spread. The deadly Carr Fire by Redding and the Mendocino Complex fires have been joined by the Holy Fire in Orange and Riverside counties, which as of Thursday has forced evacuation orders for 20,000 people.

  • Martyrdom of the 9th Imam

    Martyrdom of the 9th Imam

    Aug 12, 2018 05:51

    Heartfelt condolences to you all on a very doleful day. The last day of the month of Zil-Qa’adah is the martyrdom anniversary of the 9th Infallible Heir of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA).

  • Exploited, hated, killed: The lives of Africans in Europe

    Exploited, hated, killed: The lives of Africans in Europe

    Aug 11, 2018 10:26

    Africa, which the white Europeans exploited for centuries, looting its rich natural resources and reducing its people to poverty and backwardness, is still the victim of Europe’s racist policies as is evident by the hundreds of thousands of Africans who braving the hazards of drowning and human trafficking, land on the northern shores of the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life, but find no reprieve to their economic woes and hardships in countries they had viewed as utopia.

  • Indomitable Yemenis mean what they chant against aggressors

    Indomitable Yemenis mean what they chant against aggressors

    Aug 11, 2018 10:22

    The people of Yemen, despite the difficulties they have been facing over the past years, have proved their mettle to the world and have refused to be browbeaten into submission by the Saudis and the Americans.

  • Does Canada need better gun control?

    Does Canada need better gun control?

    Aug 11, 2018 09:58

    This article has been penned by Jooyoung Lee who is an associate professor of sociology and faculty member at the Center for the Study of the United States at the University of Toronto.

  • Corporate wrongdoers get off easy under Trump

    Corporate wrongdoers get off easy under Trump

    Aug 11, 2018 09:47

    The article has been authored by investigative journalist Mike Ludwig.

  • Bottom 40 percent of Americans have a negative net income

    Bottom 40 percent of Americans have a negative net income

    Aug 11, 2018 05:04

    According to a new report by Reuters, the bottom 40 percent of households in the United States have an average net pre-tax income of negative $11,660 a year. The report, “Poorer Americans Buckling as US Economy Booms,” published July 23 and written by lead author Jonathan Spicer, exposes how life really is for most Americans in the midst of the supposedly booming economy.