Questions about Judgment: Trump appointed Flynn in the First Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The sudden resignation of Trump National Security…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The sudden resignation of Trump National Security…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Stephen Miller, a snot-nosed kid with a…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a dramatic outcome that could well…
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Questions about Judgment: Trump appointed Flynn in the First Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The sudden resignation of Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn on Monday evening clearly was actually a firing. Flynn was given a pink…Israeli Gov’t Secretly funding illegal squatter Settlements in Palestine: Haaretz
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The recently dismantled illegal settlement outpost of Amona was funded through a million-dollar loan from the Israeli government, a report by Israeli newspaper…Al-Qaeda Rising? After Aleppo defeat, Syrian Rebels turn on Each other
By David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | - - 2017, it seems, will be no less chaotic than its predecessor -- an aphorism made plain by a mere glance at the…Turkey’s Long Nightmare: Remembering the Night of the Coup
Cüneyt Özdemir | (Duke University Middle East Studies Center | - - Cüneyt Özdemir is a columnist and investigative journalist with 28 years experience reporting from Turkey and the Middle East. An…Why Designating Muslim Brotherhood ‘Terrorists’ will harm Democracy at home and Abroad
Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington, DC) – A US government designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, which the Trump administration is reportedly considering, would threaten the…Could Trump’s War of Words with China turn Hot?
By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Forget those “bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put…Image of the Day: “Jonah and the Whale” (Persian Miniature)
Metropolitan Museum of Art | (Persian Miniature Painting) | - - "Jonah and the Whale", Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles [A medieval World History]) Inscription: In Persian, on the…Give us your Huddled Scientists: France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump
By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | - - The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump became president, a beacon of science, research…Racist Trump blocks UN Envoy for Libya because, Palestinian
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) slammed the United States for objecting to a proposal by the United Nations to appoint former Palestinian Prime…Could NSA Flynn face Criminal Charges over Russia Ties?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn (Ret.) is the National Security Adviser of President Trump. Very serious questions continue to swirl around his relationship with…As 100K Iranians Protest Trump; some thank Americans for defending Muslims
TeleSur | - - Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on Friday to swear allegiance to their clerical leaders and reject U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he had put the Islamic…Turkey’s Referendum on a Presidential System provokes Fears on Both Sides
By Ali Murat Yel | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkey is facing a possible referendum in April regarding a constitutional amendment that would change the current system from a parliamentary to…The Catch-22 of Trump’s Muslim Ban: First, Bomb them, then Demand Vetting
By M. Safa Saracoglu | (Informed Comment) | - - On January 30, 2017, the President issued an executive order suspending entry of people from seven countries for 90 days. This ban…Spicer: Trump can Criticize Iraq War but no one can Slam Trump’s Yemen Raid
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - - One-man fake news channel Sean Spicer, Trump's spokesman, said Wednesday that anyone who criticized the botched raid on Yakla in Yemen that killed innocent…Pope Francis Says Building a Wall ‘Not a Christian Gesture’
TeleSur | - - "A Christian can never say 'I'll make you pay for that.' Never! That is not a Christian gesture," said Pope Francis. Pope Francis said Wednesday that society should…Rights group warns Israel could could launch ‘wide-scale’ military offensive in Gaza
Ma'an News Agency | - - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- In the wake of multiple airstrikes launched by the Israeli army inside the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Center for…Syrian refugees ‘detrimental’ to Americans? The numbers tell a different story
By Jeffrey H. Cohen | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump wants to close the door on Syrian refugees, barring them indefinitely from settling in the U.S. In an executive…Yemen withdraws blanket approval for US action after Trump’s botched Raid
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The the Arab press, reports that that government has withdrawn blanket permission from the Trump administration to conduct raids and drone strikes on…Could Trump stumble into a Mideast War? It has happened before to Headstrong Presidents
By Guy Laron | (Informed Comment) | - - An American President enters office after his progressive predecessor courted a major Middle Eastern country. The new president is not satisfied with what…Israeli Parliament gives Legal Cover to Massive Land Theft from Palestinians
Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | - - "Israel's parliament has passed a law to legalise about 4,000 squatter homes built on privately owned Palestinian land." Al Jazeera English: "Israel…