How Bush-Cheneyism made Mideast in its Image: Wars, WOT, With us or Against Us
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thirteen years after the illegal US invasion…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thirteen years after the illegal US invasion…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite the Russian announcement of a determination…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding…
Foreign Policy
Obama in Historic Tour of Old Havana
TeleSur | - - Obama will spend two and half days in Cuba, where he will meet with U.S.-backed activists and attend a baseball game. U.S. President Barack Obama, together with First…How Bush-Cheneyism made Mideast in its Image: Wars, WOT, With us or Against Us
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thirteen years after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, it is worth considering its full impact on this country and on the region.…The New Interventionists: It isn’t just the Yanquis any more
Mark Leonard | ( Project Syndicate ) | - - In the 1990s, after genocides in Rwanda and the Balkans, Western countries developed a doctrine of so-called humanitarian intervention. “The Responsibility to…White Terrorist and Muslim-Hater Breivik Sues Norway over ‘Inhumane Treatment’
AJ+ | - - "Anders Breivik's trial over inhumane prison conditions just ended. His more serious complaints include 23-hour isolation, censorship and hundreds of strip searches. In 2011 he killed 77 people…How Israel has trapped its Bedouins between a dump and red tape
By Jonah Mandel | ( Your Middle East ) | - - The almost unbearable stench of the dump fades for a moment when Musa Tarabin puts freshly ground coffee into a…Syria: Russia Targets Daesh in Palmyra despite Drawdown
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Despite the Russian announcement of a determination to withdraw the bulk of its air force from Syria, Moscow has underlined that some planes…Iranians Celebrate first Now Ruz (New Year’s) Since lifting of Int’l Sanctions
CCTV | (Video News Report) | - - "March 20 marks the Persian New Year, Nowruz, which translates as “New Day.” Millions of people across the Middle East and Central Asia are…‘Not Sharia’: Female Afghan Rap Star campaigns against Child Marriage
Jon Snow | (Channel 4 News Video Report) | - - "Sonita Alizadeh was just 10-years-old the first time her parents tried to sell her as a child bride. She turned to…Turkey’s Erdogan: Democracy Has ‘Absolutely No Value Any Longer’ given war on PKK Terrorism
TeleSur | - - "Democracy Has 'Absolutely No Value Any Longer'" The Turkish president made the comments in the context of the government’s fight against the Kurdish PKK resistance group. In the…Netanyahu Targets for Prosecution Whistleblowers on Israeli Military abuses in Neighboring Palestine
IMEMC | - - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said rights group Breaking the Silence had “crossed a red line", following allegations that the group collected classified information from members of the…Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam Captured in Brussels Firefight
Euractiv.com | - - The most-wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, was wounded and caught in a shootout in Brussels on Friday (18 March), according to the Belgian minister for…Israeli Gov’t violations of Palestinian Journalists’ Rights reached new Peak in 2015
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A Palestinian press freedoms watchdog on Thursday said 2015 had seen an “unprecedented” increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian journalists across the occupied…Where are the Women? Syrian, other Peace Talks need female Representation
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS, Mar 17 2016 (IPS) - “When it comes to peace talks, women have a special stake,” said Gloria Steinem while…Putin: Russia can ramp back up in Syria “within hours”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat (Life) summarized Russian sources on Thursday's speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin: Putin made several points: 1. Russia hopes…Putin’s Syria Gambit: Surprising Views of Russian Pundits on What Moscow Achieved
By Robert Coalson | ( RFE/RL ) | - - As Russian warplanes continued their partial withdrawal from Syria two days after President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly announced that Moscow's objectives in the…Int’l Criticism mounts over massive Israeli ‘land grab’ in Palestinian West Bank
By Killian Redden | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian and international leaders joined a growing chorus of criticism this week over Israel's recent seizure of hundreds of…Syria’s Kurds to declare Federal Province
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Syria's Kurds have decided to declare a federal province in the northeast of the country and along the northern border with Turkey. Many…Forgetting Tahrir: The Man on Horseback and the fate of Egypt’s Revolution
Neil Serougi | ( OpenDemocracy ) | - - Why would a country that showed itself so courageous in confronting Mubarak’s repression now be content to sacrifice its hard won gains, and…Why is Putin Really withdrawing from Syria?
By Alexander Titov | (The Conversation) | - - Back in September 30 2015, when Vladimir Putin unexpectedly announced the deployment of the Russian air force in Syria, the consensus was that…Israel returns to pre-Oslo policy of vast land confiscations
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel has reinstated a policy of confiscating vast swathes of Palestinian land for settlement expansion in a trend not seen since the pre-Oslo…