Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an independent journalist reporting on the underclass and marginalized. Her work has appeared at Common Dreams, Salon, The Nation, In These Times, Citizen Radio and more. To see more of Rania’s work visit her blog Dispatches from the Underclass and follow her on twitter @RaniaKhalek.
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Views Tuesday, August 02, 2016 DNC Achieved Unity Through Forced Conformity And Manufactured Consent After returning home from the Democratic convention, I was shocked to learn that friends and family who followed the extravaganza had no idea that there were protests on the inside. How was this possible? I was there. I witnessed the tension. Each day of the convention was marred by protests, with... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Democratic Clash Over Palestine Signals Changing Party Allies of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparred at the Democratic platform drafting committee’s first round of hearings on 9 June over the issue of Palestinian freedom and Israel. The clashes point to deeper struggles over Israel taking place within the party. Sanders’... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 02, 2015 Netanyahu’s Dreary and Menacing UN Speech Provokes Internet Mockery Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mean-spirited and angry address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday was mostly as predictable as it was desperate and creepy. But it did contain one surprise. After scolding the international community for what he called its “deafening... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 02, 2015 Europe’s Border Policy is Designed to Push Refugees into the Sea Shortly before a huge migrant boat disaster early this month, The Sun , a daily paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, published a column by British TV star and rightwing provocateur Katie Hopkins calling migrants “ cockroaches ” and “a plague of feral humans.” Not long after it went to press, as many as... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 26, 2014 Why Do Media Value Israeli Children’s Lives More Than Those of Palestinian Kids? A young Palestinian man named Abd al-Rahman al-Shaludi rammed his car into pedestrians exiting the Ammunition Hill light rail station in northern Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing three-month-old Haya Zissel Brown and injuring at least seven others. Israeli officials instantly labeled the crash a... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 09, 2014 Democrat Youth Wing Fires Members Who Criticized Israel’s Child Killings The College Democrats of America (CDA), the youth wing of the Democratic National Committee, forced two of its members to resign from leadership positions following a right-wing smear campaign this week. They were branded anti-Semites after expressing anger at Israel’s assault on Gaza in a heated... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 31, 2014 Israel Uses Palestinians as Human Shields but US Lawmakers Condemn Hamas Both houses of the US Congress are considering passing a resolution that condemns Hamas for using human shields despite not having any evidence to prove Hamas is employing this tactic. Over the last 22 days, the Israeli army has deliberately bombed family homes, UN shelters, schools, places of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Israel Firing Experimental Weapons at Gaza’s Civilians, Say Doctors Doctors treating patients in Gaza have accused Israel of using experimental weapons on Palestinian civilians. Addressing reporters at a press conference on Sunday, Youssef Abul Resh, undersecretary of the health ministry in Gaza said , “Medical teams have registered injuries consistent with those... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 10, 2014 ABC News Tells Viewers That Scenes of Destruction in Gaza are in Israel More than fifty Palestinians have been killed and another 450 wounded since Monday in Israel’s ongoing assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge” by the Israeli army. As usual, mainstream media outlets are straining to paint Israel as the victim, defending its people... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 07, 2012 Propaganda Deja Vu? Media Uncritically Echoes Unnamed US Officials on Syria’s Chemical Weapons “All governments lie.” — I.F. Stone Read more |