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Florida: Politicians in Big Oil’s Pocket Beware, The People want their Solar
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Florida voters have overwhelmingly passed Amendment…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Florida voters have overwhelmingly passed Amendment…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US government played a role in…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday evening, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan…
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‘Unacceptable’ UN says US-Backed Iraqi Militias Recruiting Children
TeleSur | - - The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about reports the groups are using children on the frontlines of the fight against the Islamic State group. Amid reports…Massive Brain Drain from Turkey begins in wake of Failed Coup, Crackdowns
By Ibrahim Sirkeci | (The Conversation) | - - On July 15, a group within the Turkish military staged a coup. It failed. But since then, the Turkish government has restricted rights…America’s Shameful Record on Syrian Refugees
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US government played a role in the collapse of Syria. It continually placed sanctions on this little country, including the 2003 Syrian…US: Turkish-backed campaign against our Allies in Syria ‘unacceptable’
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday evening, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally in Gaziantep, a city near the border with Syria, “We will make any…America’s Syria SNAFU: Pentagon’s Militias fight Turkey & CIA’s Militias
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Turkish incursion into Syria at Jarabulus was advertised as an attack on a Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) stronghold and smuggling station in conjunction…The Russian Challenge to U.S. Policy in Africa
Gregory Alonso Pirio and Robert Pittelli | Informed Comment | - - The United States and its Western allies, for the most part, consider the Cold War long over, and with the…ISIL sends families out of Mosul as Kurdish, Iraqi Army Forces advance
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iraqi military forces have taken the strategic town of al-Qayarah near the major city of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Mosul is the…Is Turkey’s incursion into Syria about Daesh, or about the Kurds?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkish military sources told the Anadol news agency that Wednesday's military attack on the Syrian border town of Jarabulus, held for years by…Top 6 Reasons Turkey is Finally attacking ISIL in Syria’s Jarabulus
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkey and coalition allies launch air strikes Wednesday morning against the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) stronghold of Jarabulus, on the Syrian side near the…The Short-Lived Russia-Iran Axis
By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | - - Russian use of an Iranian airbase led some to see a Russia-Iran axis. They jumped the gun and surmised too much. In…Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising
Notice: Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising In this eagerly awaited book, foremost Arab world and international affairs specialist Gilbert Achcar analyzes the factors of the regional relapse. Focusing…Is Turkey’s Pivot to Russia about Erdogan’s Survival?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkey's prime minister, Yildirim Binali, has announced a significant about-face in Turkey's Syria policy. Murat Yetkin writes: " “The most important priority for…US-Allied Kurds advance in Hasaka City, NE Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Clashes continued on Sunday between the Kurdish YPG [People's Protection Units] and the Syrian Arab Army in Hasaka, according to the Egyptian press…Ex-president Saleh offers ‘all Yemen’s facilities’ to Russia
By Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com) | - - In a TV interview today, Yemen's ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, appeared to invite Russian military intervention in the country's conflict. He talked of…Israel planning new Squatter settlement near Bethlehem to ‘cut Palestine’s West Bank in two’
Ma'an News Agency | - - RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli authorities have been conducting a land survey in the southern occupied West Bank near Bethlehem in order to declare state lands to…Saudis bomb Sanaa during “Million-Person march”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Houthi Ansarullah Movement that controls most of north and west Yemen staged what was by all accounts an enormous demonstration in the…Juan Cole, “The Idea of Peace in the Qur’an” (Kluge Center Blog)
Juan Cole | Library of Congress | John W. Kluge Center | - - The past summer I had an appointment at the John W. Kluge Center that allowed for research in…Near-War: US Planes almost tangle with Syrian MiGs, which bombed area of US troop Embeds
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The fighting that has broken out between Kurdish YPG fighters and the Syrian Arab Army in Hasaka, northeast Syria, is hardly a new…Merkel: Migrants did not bring Radical Terrorism to Germany
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a campaign event on Wednesday evening, that there is no relationship between the influx of some one…Gaza power plant runs out of fuel amid longstanding electricity crisis
Ma'an News Agency | - - GAZA (Ma’an)-- The besieged Gaza Strip’s only power plant announced on Thursday that it was unable to operate on more than one generator after exhausting its…