ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Oman Daily's Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Oman Daily's Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a very…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I have long wondered why no one…
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ISIL Captures Thousands trying to flee it in Iraq, Executes a Dozen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Oman Daily's Jabbar al-Rubaie reports that Iraqi security sources announced yesterday that Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) had executed a number of the residents…Nagasaki, 1945: “The world did not need your experiment”
By H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - Kyoko Hayashi nearly died on August 9, 1945 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. She was fourteen years old and working at…Obama not only did not pay Iran Ransom, he denied Iran Billions it had Coming to It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a very clear explanation of why the $400 million the US paid to Iran in January was not…Donald “Dr. Strangelove” Trump and some of the Times We almost had a Nuclear War
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I have long wondered why no one in Hollywood has remade Stanley Kubricks's 1964 "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned to Stop worrying…Black Lives Matter Protests in Palestine
TeleSur | - - BLM argued that police violence and killings against Black people in the U.S. are connected to the decades-long Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Activists from the Black Lives Matter…Myth of Militant Islam: Why Most Syrian Young men are Refusing to Join ISIL
By Lana Khattab | (OpenDemocracy.org) | - - It is by recognising the role masculinities and gender expectations play in societies that we can fully understand and hope to address violence. In…Pope and French Muslims try Muslim-Christian outreach instead of ‘War on Terror’ Polarization
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AFP reported from the papal airplane on Pope Francis's remarks about Islam in the wake of the brutal murder of an elderly priest…Israel jailing more and more Palestinian Minors without Charges or Trial
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli human rights group B’Tselem released a report Thursday evening revealing that Israeli authorities have steadily increased their use of administrative detention --…How Twitter robots spam critics of Saudi Arabia & Shiite Muslims
By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com ) | - - For several weeks now there has been growing evidence that Twitter is being used for a covert and highly organised propaganda operation…Russian & Iranian Press deplore Hillary Clinton Hawkishness; Israelis complain she’s Dove
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - How is the international press responding to the Democratic National Convention and the formalization of Hillary Clinton's status as the party's standard-bearer in…Baghdad facing Invasion of . . . Cockroaches, as Temps reach 122° b/c Climate Change
Niqash.org | - - Last week Baghdad faced a new threat: A plague of cockroaches, brought out by higher summer temperatures. All sorts of strange stories about the insect invaders emerged. Over…Top Five Ways to tell if a Terrorist is still al-Qaeda despite name Change
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The leftist Beirut newspaper al-Safir comments scathingly on the name-change of the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate, the Nusra Front led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani,…Turkey Is Shutting Down over 130 Media Outlets; Can Democracy Survive?
TeleSur | - - Erdogan's political purge following the failed coup keeps on going, with the net ever widening. Turkey is shutting down over 100 media outlets and is purging over 1,000…B’Tselem: Israel demolished more Palestinian homes in past 6 months than in all of 2015
By Ma'an News Agency | - - A Palestinian family stands amid the remains of their home after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Masafer Jenbah in an undated photo. (AFP/Hazem…Can Turkey’s Economy come back from Coup and Massive Purge?
By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | - - The failed July 15 coup in Turkey has prompted a tsunami of responses by the government that is likely to have a lasting…Arab World’s biggest Problem not Terrorism or Fundamentalism but Water!
By Brahma Chellaney | (Project Syndicate) | - - BERLIN – Nowhere is freshwater scarcer than in the Arab world. The region is home to most of the world’s poorest states or…Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
By Fatma Müge Göçek | (The Conversation) | - - After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge…Palestinian FM asks Arab League to help sue UK over Balfour Declaration
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki urged the Arab League to help the Palestinian Authority to sue the United Kingdom over the Balfour Declaration…Arab Street Shocked as Saudi Delegation Visits Israel
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Egyptian news site the Arab Observer Network reports that the visit to Israel of a former Saudi military intelligence officer, Gen. Anwar…Lieberman: Palestinian National Poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Verse is ‘Mein Kampf’
By IMEMC News | - - Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has compared the broadcast of poetry by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish on Israeli radio to glorifying Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” the…