Top 3 Signs Bill Clinton didn’t kill himself to “give” the Palestinians a State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday claimed…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday claimed…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mustafa Badreddine, the Hizbullah commander responsible for…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When you only hear bad news from…
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Top 3 Signs Bill Clinton didn’t kill himself to “give” the Palestinians a State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Former President Bill Clinton on Saturday claimed "I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state," and maintained that he secured an agreement,…Americans may see ISIL as No. 1 Threat, but Turkey & the Kurds have other Priorities
By Abbas Djavadi | ( RFE/RL | - - For a long time the Turkish government was accused of assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group. These accusations…Top Hizbullah Commander in Syria killed in Explosion; Radical Salafis blamed
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mustafa Badreddine, the Hizbullah commander responsible for Syria, was killed Friday in an explosion near Damascus. It wasn't clear whether he was hit…The Danger Of Dictatorship: How To Replace Iraq’s Flawed Political System?
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Iraq’s Parliament has failed its people. This was the message from protestors last week. But what could possibly replace the flawed system?…Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority
VICE News | (Video report) | - - "In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took…Surprise! Despite Syria-Iraq Turmoil, Major Mideast Economies growing 3-4%
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When you only hear bad news from a place, you form a negative opinion of it. But when I went looking for news…100th Anniversary: What did the Sykes-Picot Agreement mean for the Middle East?
By Stephen Pascoe | (The Conversation) | - - To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory article about the secret accord (below) .…Annual ‘March of Return’ draws thousands of Palestinians to the Negev
Ma'an News Agency | - - NEGEV (Ma'an) -- Thousands of Palestinians participated in the annual ‘March of Return’ on Thursday afternoon near Bedouin towns in the Negev (Naqab) in southern Israel,…Baghdad gov’t paralysis made capital vulnerable to massive ISIL bombings
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) launched a series of suicide car and truck bombs in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing nearly 100 and wounding nearly 200…In Resistance and Creativity, the Occupied Palestinians find Hope
By Victoria Brittain | (OpenDemocracy) | - - The village of Nabi Saleh is a story of resistance in the face of theft and violence. Rawabi encapsulates the vision of a neo-liberal…Majorities of Muslim Arabs in N. Africa want a Separation of Religion and State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - You know those silly anti-sharia laws passed by evangelicals in US state legislatures? They may as well not bother. (Sharia is Muslim law;…Chomsky – How the Elites’ ‘War on Terror’ Multiplies Terror
By Noam Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - [This piece, the second of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 1…Azarya Trial and Israeli Values: Israeli soldier charged with Killing prostrate Assailant
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The trial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter for the point-blank shooting of a Palestinian earlier this year began on Monday, amid…Can Europe compete with China in post-Sanction Iran? Will the US Let it?
By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | - - The cake is quite big, but everyone wants a slice. Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, visited Iran last month accompanied by business leaders…Al-Zawahiri Supports Syrian al-Qaeda, calls for more global Volunteers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Al-Qaeda central leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, has issued a new audio tape.…Yemen: Saudis Using US Cluster Munitions
Human Rights Watch | - - End Production, Transfer of These Banned Weapons (Washington, DC) – Saudi Arabia has used US-made cluster munitions near civilian areas in Yemen, leaving behind unexploded submunitions,…Is Turkish PM’s forced exit a Harbinger of greater Authoritarianism?
By Winston Obertan | ( GlobalVoices.org ) | - - Turkey's Prime Minister of nearly two years Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced his intention to quit his post “for the unity of the…Top 4 Reasons Iran will stand by Syrian gov’t despite High Casualties
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Saturday, Iran announced that 13 members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps had been killed and 21 wounded when the al-Qaeda-led Army of…These 5 Intellectuals Smash the ‘Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic’ Argument
TeleSur | - - As controversy surrounding the "new anti-Semitism" rages in Europe, important public intellectuals argue that critiquing Israel is not anti-Semitism. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked commented recently on the controversy of "anti-Semitism"…Why do 93% of Iraqi Youth think the US is their Enemy?
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Video Report) | - - "93% of Iraqis see the United States as their enemy – but after a look at recent history, can you blame 'em?" AJ+:…