AG Jeff Sessions implies Asian-Americans in Hawaii not Real Americans
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was caught on tape…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was caught on tape…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bill O'Reilly is off the airwaves, but…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Demographically, the 21st century will be the…
Foreign Policy
Does Climate change increase Threat of Terrorism?
By Manon Flausch | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White | - - "Poverty and insecurity can be factors in radicalisation." [Manon Flausch] From South America to the Middle East, the effects…Is Trump Taking Us to War Everywhere?
By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | - - No one expected Trump to be a peace president, but he seems bent on taking us to the verge of World War III. No…Palestinians decry Israeli Double Standard over NYT Op-ed
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Activists and commentators have denounced the dishonesty of Israeli criticism of The New York Times for publishing an op-ed in defense of a…Now Iraqi Elections are infected by Facebook, Twitter Fake News
Mustafa Habib. | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - The latest trend in politics in Iraq involves the creation of seemingly innocuous Facebook pages, that are used to spread rumours and lies…The Coming Muslim Century: Bad news for President Bannon
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Demographically, the 21st century will be the Muslim Century, as the Pew Research Center on Religion in Public Life has shown. Muslims will…Don’t want to lose the Next Mideast War? Don’t Fight One
Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Make no mistake: after 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will…Mideast Partition Plans won’t Bring Peace, just Imperial Social Engineering
By Laura Robson | (Informed Comment) | - - The idea that partition and population exchange might represent “solutions” to Middle Eastern conflict, long advocated by a wide variety of observers and…As Leftist Turks Protest, Trump congratulates Erdogan on Authoritarian Turn
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Several hundred Turks demonstrated in Istanbul on Monday in protest at the referendum result on Sunday transforming Turkey into a presidential system and…Was US Airstrike on Syrian Mosque a War Crime?
Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington, DC) – United States forces appear to have failed to take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in a March 16, 2017 strike that killed…Over 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners Launch Mass Hunger Strike
TeleSur | - - “Salutes of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Glory to the martyrs. Freedom for the prisoners of freedom,” stated the PFLP in support of the strikers. On Palestinian Prisoner’s Day Monday, hundreds…Turkish Democracy in Trouble, but not Because of Presidential System
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkey's historic referendum on Sunday will move the country from a parliamentary to a presidential system. Many observers are sounding a death knell…Neoconservatives almost Giddy over Trump Syria Strike
By Jim Lobe | FPIF | (Originally published in Lobelog) | - - Many architects of the Iraq War openly hope Trump will go further in pursuing regime change in Syria —…Everyone could celebrate Easter in Jerusalem except Palestinian Christians
By IMEMC. | - - Thousands of Christian followers of the Orthodox and Catholic faiths from all over the world, gathering at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City,…Why Population Exchange Fails: Over 100 Dead as Buses Bombed
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Someone detonated a car bomb in the (rebel-held) Rashideen district of Aleppo Province Friday night, killing over 100 and wounding over 500. It…Turkey’s Referendum on Democracy vs. Illiberal Rule
By Natalie Martin | (The Conversation) | - - When the Turkish government announced its plans to transform itself into an executive presidency, no-one was particularly surprised. This plan, which has been…After the Chemical Attack, It’s Time to Get Rid of the ‘Muslim Ban’
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | - - Now that he cares about the fate of Syrian children, I hope Trump will open up our country — not bomb theirs. When I…1 million Palestinians detained by Israel since 1948: Joint statement
Ma'an News Agency | - - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of…Syria: to Assad & Kurds go the Spoils; Sunni extremists have Lost
By Mehmet Ozalp | (The Conversation) | - - The devastating gas attack in Syria, attributed to the Assad regime, and the swift US missile response is a game-changer for all parties…In 3 months, Trump has Charged into 4 Mideast Wars, to no Avail
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his less than three months in office, Donald Trump has escalated four wars, and all of his escalations have been failures. To be…‘Suicide belts Everywhere’: As Iraqi Forces Close in, ISIL prepares to Drink the Coolaid
Special Correspondent | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | - - As pro-Iraq forces close in on the Islamic State fighters in Mosul, civilians trapped in the city with them, say the extremists roam…