How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over…
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some 2,000 rebel fighters, most of them…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Democratic Party has been the Establishment…
Foreign Policy
Putin targets East Aleppo rebels; Did Trump’s Election doom them?
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some 2,000 rebel fighters, most of them Muslim fundamentalists, others remnants of the Free Syrian Army, are trying to break the Syrian regime's…Israeli Minister: Era of Palestinian State is over, w/ Trump Victory
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli and Palestinian authorities reacted on Sunday to the victory of Donald Trump in the American presidential elections, with one Israeli minister expressing his hopes that Trump's nomination would…Trump may reset Russian ties but will the Mideast Stymie him?
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - Mr. Donald Trump’s electoral victory has created shockwaves worldwide. It was as unexpected as it was unwelcome to many peoples, particularly in the…Israeli parliament moves to ban Boycott, Divestment Backers from entering Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized on Monday for its first reading in the Israeli parliament, according to…European journalists brand Turkey ‘biggest prison in the world’
By Herbert Vytiska | EurActiv.de | Translated By Samuel Morgan | EurActiv | - - Curbs on press freedom have been dramatically increased since the failed coup attempt against President Erdoğan. The…W. Bank Palestinian farmers: Israeli squatters stole harvest of 400 olive trees
NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Palestinian farmers in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus reported on Monday that Israeli settlers stole the harvest of 400 olive trees planted on their private lands.…Iraq’s Mosul Campaign: ISIL using civilians as Human Shields
Human Rights Watch | - - All Forces Should Take Necessary Precautions to Protect Civilians (Erbil) – In areas around Mosul, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is forcibly evacuating civilians…Mosul Is My Hometown, Here Is Why ISIL Was Able To Stay There
Special Correspondent | Baghdad | Niqash.org | - - NIQASH’s Mosul correspondent explains why people in the city did not resist the [so-called] Islamic State group at first, why his family and…Growing Global Nuclear Threat – as if Election 2016 weren’t already bad enough
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Once upon a time, when choosing a new president, a factor for many voters was the perennial question: “Whose finger do you…Turkey: the road towards dictatorship and the west’s responsibility
By Mehmet Ugur | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Let us stop pretending otherwise: Turkey is now under a dictatorial regime established step by step under the gaze of, and with tacit…The Balfour Slow Genocide and the Fate of Palestinians
By Aimee Shalan | al-Shabakah | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - Current British Complicity It is not only corporate entities such as G4S in the case of Dareen Tatour that are…Britain, Balfour, and 100 years of cultural repression of Palestinians (Part I)
By Aimee Shalan | Al-Shabaka | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - If Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour passes over the perimeter of her home’s driveway in her village of Reineh in the…Payback Time: Mosul Militias Backstabbed By ISIL Plot Revenge
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - It's not only the Iraqi army gunning for the Islamic State in Mosul. The extremists’ former allies, who helped them control the…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…