Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Turkish government has detained 11 members…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Turkish government has detained 11 members…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When I trained as a lifeguard they…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AFP Arabic reports that Iraqi PM Haydar…
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Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Turkish government has detained 11 members of parliament from the leftist, feminist and pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP),including the party's co-chairs. This…Are Arabs White?
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Vidoe Report) | - - “White” – without the privilege. Arab-Americans are ready to check their own box on the U.S. census. Dena Takruri explains." AJ+: "Are Arabs…The Struggle Of Palestinian Olive Farmers Under Israeli Occupation
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "These Palestinians can only access their land for a couple of days per year. This is how they harvest olives under occupation. Filmed by…Civilians in both Aleppos are Hurting
By Hadeel al-Shalchi | (Human Rights Watch) | - - The small child cries hysterically on the hospital bed, covered in dust and blood. The video, posted by the pro-Syrian government news…War within War – Iraqi PM: We don’t want to fight Turkey but we’re Ready
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AFP Arabic reports that Iraqi PM Haydar al-Abadi said Tuesday that "We do not want a war with Turkey, and do not want…Israel bans for 10 yrs. Mairead Maguire, others on International Women’s Boat to Gaza
By Mairead Maguire | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME, Nov 1 2016 (IPS) - A few weeks ago, the US government agreed to give Israel $38 billion dollars, the largest…Colonizing the Dead: Israeli authorities demolish graves in East Jerusalem cemetery
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli Nature and Parks Authority forces demolished several graves inside a Palestinian cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, according to local…Hizbullah’s Candidate becomes Lebanese President after Sunni Compromise
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Lebanon finally has a president, Michel Aoun. In accordance with the country's national pact, he is a Maronite Christian (a Catholic uniate church),…Sectarian Tensions flare in Baghdad as some Sunni Arab families forced from Neighborhoods
By Ibrahim Saleh | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Several Sunni Muslim families were forced out of their mainly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in Baghdad recently. Locals fear the creeping return of…“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS
Juan Cole | PBS | Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (Video Interview) | - - Via Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS "Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at…Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in al-Hudayda, a port on the western coast of Yemen under Houthi control, have killed some 43…Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem…Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | - - . . . "There's no question that, in the worst case, Mosul will represent the single largest, most complex humanitarian crisis in…10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - WaPo is reporting that it was the FBI investigation of Anthony Weiner that caused new emails between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin to…60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War
By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | - - Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis and…UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to *3* Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It
By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the UNESCO Resolution full text of the UNESCO resolution [pdf] on Palestine and Israel,…Iraq: Barzani pledges Kurdish forces won’t Enter Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (a super-province of Iraq) said Thursday that the KRG paramilitary, the Peshmerga, will not…Int’l Conflict over Aleppo & Mosul is Making local Civil Wars Worse
By Christopher Hill | (Project Syndicate) | - - DENVER – The Middle East’s tragic tale of two cities – Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – speaks to a fundamental…Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios
By James L. Gelvin | (The Conversation) | - - Most military analysts believe it’s only a matter of time before Mosul falls. Mosul is Iraq’s third largest city. The Islamic State…Israel’s Blockade of Gaza is Inherently Violent
By Mike Merryman-Lotze | (Otherwords) | - - Every day Palestinians live in fear of another U.S.-funded attack by the Israeli government. This fall, the U.S. agreed to provide $38 billion in…