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ISIL: Imbecilic Buffoon Trump leading America to Extinction
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Disturbing signs emerged Tuesday that Donald J.…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Disturbing signs emerged Tuesday that Donald J.…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump met Monday with Egyptian field…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Elizabeth Palmer reported from Ankara last Thursday…
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ISIL: Imbecilic Buffoon Trump leading America to Extinction
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Disturbing signs emerged Tuesday that Donald J. Trump's odd self-presentation and erratic pronouncements could be a serious security threat to . . .…Trump Ordered 70 Airstrikes in Yemen, Twice as Many as Last Year of Obama
TeleSur | - - U.S. President Trump also greenlighted a group operation in Yemen in February that killed more than 30 civilians. The young U.S. administration of Donald Trump has carried out…How our Standing Wars are Warping Us
Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world and seemed eerily relevant in the Age…Israeli Software to plant Propaganda on Social Media
IMEMC | - - The Israeli government has purchased a software system enabling it to monitor social media and specific users to plan ideas in online discourse. The bid, which was won…PM May: Take back the Balfour Declaration – Israel reneged on the Bargain
By Ian Berman | (Informed Comment) | - - Dear Prime Minister May: The centennial of the Balfour Declaration is upon us. Accordingly, we think it is time the British Government revisited…Trump, al-Sisi and Tightening up the Pressure Cooker
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump met Monday with Egyptian field marshal/ president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Trump effused, “We agree on so many things. I just want…Has Trump deferred to Russia in Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Elizabeth Palmer reported from Ankara last Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had difficult and inconclusive discussions with Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan…ISIL Threatens To Conquer Iran, issuing Rare Video In Persian
Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | - - The militant group Islamic State (IS) has vowed in a rare video message in Persian that includes the apparent beheading of four captured soldiers…Iran is Back: With Int’l Sanctions lifted and Putin Friendly, Tehran is on a Roll
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iranian petroleum sales to its top four Asian customers rose nearly 60% year on year in March, and total exports have reached nearly…Israel knicks 25 Acres Of Palestinian Lands In Salfit for Colonial Purposes
IMEMC | - - The Israeli government is planning to illegally confiscate 25 acres of Palestinian lands, in Salfit district, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, to build a…Mosul: ISIL Deploys Ideological Booby Trap As It Retreats
David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | - - The coalition battling to take the Iraqi city of Mosul from the extremist [so-called] "Islamic State" group (IS) is closing in. Earlier this…Iraqis Weigh in on Airstrike That Killed Hundreds In Mosul
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - There is plenty of speculation about how hundreds of non-combatants were killed in Mosul, all apparently by accident. US and Iraqi forces have…Palestinians condemn Israel’s new illegal squatting in West Bank
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Palestinian leaders on Thursday and Friday strongly condemned an Israeli security cabinet vote on Thursday night that unanimously approved the establishment of a…Was Michael Flynn Russia’s “primary channel of communication with the Trump team”?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Former National Security Adviser to president Trump, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, has allegedly offered to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on…Putin and the Ayatollahs: How Russia’s Alliance with Iran is reshaping the Middle East
By Clément Therme | (The Conversation) | - - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, will meet for the eighth time in four years from March 27 to…In Shadow of Mideast Wars, Massive Spike in Hunger and Malnutrition
By IPS World Desk | (Inter Press Service) | - - Food security and nutrition levels in the Near East and North Africa have sharply deteriorated over the last five years, undermining…Why are young Jewish Activists Protesting the Major Israel Lobby?
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | - - "Here's why these Jewish activists are protesting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in DC. " AJ+: "Jewish Activists Are Protesting AIPAC"The Untold Violence of the Pax Americana
John W. Dower | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - [This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s new book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since…Why would Trump Spend $54 Billion More on the Pentagon? To Start a War, Obviously.
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency. So, let me see if…Mosul: “Some” US Responsibility for Civilian deaths; but Iraqi PM lashes out at Critics
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As US commanders begin confessing that it is likely that the US military bears responsibility for last Thursday's errant airstrike that killed as…