The Bernie Sanders Miracle: American Crowd in Brooklyn Cheers Palestinian Dignity
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Democratic debate in Brooklyn last night…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Democratic debate in Brooklyn last night…
Dear Members of the U-M [University of Michigan] community We stand with our friends/students/colleagues and with…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There were five major stories in the…
Foreign Policy
US Slams Israel over Extrajudicial Killings, Torture & Racism then Meekly offers extra Billions
TeleSur In a rare move by Washington, the 2016 U.S. report on human rights said Israel unlawfully killed over 70 Palestinians and tries minors in military courts. The United States accused Israeli…Fall of Iraq, Rise of Sunnistan? Sunni Politicians In Washington Promote Idea of Partition and a Sunni Region
Mazin Sahib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Leading Sunni Muslim politicians have opened an office in Washington to represent Sunni interests. There’s talk of an autonomous Sunni region again as…Negotiations, “Elections,” and al-Qaeda’s assault on Syrian Ceasefire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There were five major stories in the US and European press about Syria today: 1. The cessation of hostilities is in danger of…Turkey’s Pres. Erdogan demands Germany prosecute comedian over satirical poem
RT | (Video News Report) | - - "Turkey has made a formal request to the German government to prosecute a TV comedian over a crude poem about the Turkish President." RT:…Erekat: Escalation of Israeli squatter settlement construction a ‘war crime’
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat denounced on Wednesday recent Israeli plans to expand illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem,…5 Years After Revolution, Egyptians See #PanamaPapers as Further Vindication of Mubarak’s Ouster
By Salma Essam | (Global Voices) | - - Among the names contained in the Panama Papers, the enormous trove of confidential documents revealing how the world's elite exploit tax havens, is…Arab Youth view ISIL as major Mideast Obstacle, want less Religion
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The annual Arab Youth survey conducted by pollsters Burson-Marsteller is out, reporting on 3500 interviews with Arabs 18-24 years of age in 16…Lebanon: Over 70% of Syrian Refugee Children Forced into Exploitative Child Labor
TeleSur | - - A report by an anti-slavery group also details how Syrian refugee girls are being forced into child marriage and sex slavery. Up to 70 percent of Syrian refugee…Watchdog: Israeli approval for squatter units more than doubles in 2016
Ma'an News Agency | (Informed Comment) | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel has advanced plans for 250 percent more settler homes in the first quarter of 2016 than it did in…Saudi’s King Salman in Turkey signals thaw in Ankara-Riyadh Tensions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi Arabia's King Salman is visiting Turkey today, after his trip to Egypt this past weekend (I wrote about that at The Nation).…Syria won’t have Peace until there is Accountability for War Crimes
By Neil Sammonds | (Inter Press Service) | - - GENEVA (IPS) - The negotiations on April 11, 2016 in Geneva and the recent reduction of hostilities in Syria may represent important…Israeli Police, going into Palestinian West Bank, Detain & Abuse Children
Human Rights Watch | - - (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than…Visualization: How ISIL vastly exaggerated its Influence and Everyone Bought it (The Atlantic)
By Kathy Gilsinan, Caitlin Cadieux, Daniel Lombroso | (The Atlantic Video Report) | - - "Americans are constantly being told that ISIS is a massive threat—but what does that mean? Are there…Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and the Displacement of Palestinian Bedouins
By IMEMC | - - Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : Lance Bartholomeusz, Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank condemned Israel’s latest round of large scale demolitions of homes in the Palestinian…Syria: Is al-Qaeda rising as ISIL is rolled Back? Is the US de facto Allied with it?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The cessation of hostilities in Syria never included Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) or al-Qaeda (the Nusra Front or Support Front), but it did include…In an Age of Global Terror, do Failed States endanger you, too?
By Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin | (Inter Press Service) | - - NEW YORK, Apr 9 2016 (IPS) - Regardless of whether they are called fragile, failed, or failing states, scores…Palestinians mark 68th anniversary of their massacre at Deir Yassin by Jewish Terrorists
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinians on Saturday marked the 68th anniversary of the massacre of more than 100 Palestinians civilians carried out by Zionist paramilitary groups in…With Iraq’s Shiite Gov’t in Collapse, Can Country finally get past US-crafted Sectarianism?
Niqash.org | Baghdad | - - Iraq’s Crises Highlight Major Divide Between Country’s Shiite Politicians The Shiite political alliance that dominates Iraq is cracking under pressure from the country’s crises. But some…If ISIL falls before November, how will it affect the US Election?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - GOP frontrunner Donald Trump openly attributes his success at the polls to the terrorist attacks on Paris last fall, in which Daesh (ISIS,…Far-Right Israeli Government ‘At Risk of Collapse,’ as Electorate feels Buyer’s Remorse
TeleSur | - - The right-wing coalition may collapse if the Zionist Union fails to join the government. A key Israeli minister said Thursday that the government is at risk of collapsing…