Conspiracy Theorist in Chief: Trump’s falsehood about 2 mn. illegal votes only tip of Melting Iceberg
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Americans have given the nuclear codes to…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Americans have given the nuclear codes to…
By Juan Cole | - - In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the…
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Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?
By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | - - The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era fantasies. He gained a few more adversaries…In Trump’s Shadow, is East Aleppo on Verge of falling to Regime, Russia?
By Juan Cole | - - In the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Russian backer have thrown caution to the wind. No less…Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn’t have elected Trump
By Bill Emmott | (Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US President-elect Donald Trump will behave in office…When Reagan backed S. Africa Racism and Castro inspired Mandela
TeleSur | - - The world remembers Nelson Mandela as the freedom fighter and president who liberated South Africa from apartheid. But many look back with a selected memory of how the…Fidel Castro’s Top Moments in the Middle East
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Fidel Castro is dead at 90. He presided over the only pro-USSR Communist state in the Western Hemisphere, and was therefore a thorn…Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East
By Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | - - The election of Trump will give second wind to autocrats in the region as well as create space for the growth of…WikiLeaks Yemen Files Unmask Washington’s Bloody Role
TeleSur | - - More than 10,000 - mostly civilians - have been killed and more than 3 million have been displaced in the conflict. Whistleblowing organization Wikileaks on Friday dropped yet…Is Trump “Pro-Russian?” How will Russia Fare? Russians want to Know
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Russian op-ed writers are intrigued with Donald Trump, who has spoken of improving relations between the US and the Russian Federation. But…World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave “alarming” on Wednesday.…Raining Bombs: Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians
By a Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | - - Inside their homes, a lack of food and water; outside, bombs, snipers and crossfire. Yet many Mosul locals are choosing to…Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care
Ma'an News Agency | - - GAZA (Ma’an) -- Health services in a children’s hospital in Gaza will be suspended for more than a day due to a lack of fuel to…Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era
By Heike Schotten | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong.The…Iraq: Hundreds of Police bodies found in ISIS Mass Grave
Human Rights Watch | - - Witnesses Describe Executions (Erbil) – A mass grave discovered near Mosul by Iraqi Security Forces on November 7, 2016, most likely contains the bodies of at…Trump Effect: Israel to Resume Construction of Thousands of “Frozen” Settlement Units
IMEMC News | - - The Israeli Planning and Construction Committee, on Sunday, announced that Israel intends to build thousands of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, now that Donald…After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a new Shiite-sponsored plan that will try and…Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels…Lieberman calls on Trump to help development of Israeli squatter settlements
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Amid a storm of postulations surrounding what the American President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would look like in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli…Syria’s al-Assad: Trump “a natural ally”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In an interview with Portugal television Wednesday, according to al-Hayat, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said that Donald Trump will be "a natural ally"…What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad
Steve Scholl | (Spirituality and Health Magazine) | - - Muhammad has become a strangely unifying figure in America—able to get conservative Glenn Beck and liberal Bill Maher to agree that Islam…Dear Mayor Giuliani: We can’t turn our backs on Syrian Refugees
Akil Awan | (Informed Comment) | - - I recently visited Jordan as part of my work on political violence and youth radicalisation for the United Nations on Security Council Resolution 2250.…