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Archives: October 2016
“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS
Juan Cole | PBS | Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (Video Interview) | - - Via Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS "Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at…
US Veterans’ Biggest Battle: Challenging Islamophobia
By Nate Terani | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - I’m not an immigrant, but my grandparents are. More than 50 years ago, they arrived in New York City from Iran. I…
Another Saudi War Crime in Yemen as 43 Prisoners dead in Airstrike
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi airstrikes targeting a judiciary building in al-Hudayda, a port on the western coast of Yemen under Houthi control, have killed some 43…
Israeli squatter saboteurs cut down 18 Palestinian trees near Bethlehem
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem…
Facebook Ad Option allows Discrimination Against Blacks, Latinos
By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. | (ProPublica) | - - Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that…
Humanitarian Crisis In Mosul as Half of Displaced are Children
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | - - . . . "There's no question that, in the worst case, Mosul will represent the single largest, most complex humanitarian crisis in…
10 Things Weiner did Worse than Storing H. Clinton Emails on his computer
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - WaPo is reporting that it was the FBI investigation of Anthony Weiner that caused new emails between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin to…
60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War
By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | - - Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis and…
UNESCO dared say Jerusalem is Sacred to *3* Faiths & So Netanyahu Smeared It
By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma'an News Agency) | - - Did Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi actually read the UNESCO Resolution full text of the UNESCO resolution [pdf] on Palestine and Israel,…
Iraq: Barzani pledges Kurdish forces won’t Enter Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (a super-province of Iraq) said Thursday that the KRG paramilitary, the Peshmerga, will not…
Does Trump’s lag prove the end of White Christian America?
Robert P. Jones | The Atlantic | (Video News Report) | - - 'The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and that is already beginning to have profound…
Int’l Conflict over Aleppo & Mosul is Making local Civil Wars Worse
By Christopher Hill | (Project Syndicate) | - - DENVER – The Middle East’s tragic tale of two cities – Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – speaks to a fundamental…
Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios
By James L. Gelvin | (The Conversation) | - - Most military analysts believe it’s only a matter of time before Mosul falls. Mosul is Iraq’s third largest city. The Islamic State…
Starstruck & Party-Fanatic: The Moral Paradox of Trump Support
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump's poll numbers in California have cratered down to 28%. If he actually does that poorly in the election, he will…
Megyn Kelly-Newt Gingrich Blow-up on Fox: Are White Women deserting Trump?
Farron Cousins | (Ring of Fire Video Report) | - - "Newt Gingrich tried to tell Megyn Kelly of Fox News that she was obsessed with sex. Ironic coming from a man…
AT&T Profits by Spying on You for Gov’t, Killing 4th Amendment
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - If companies are allowed to operate in this manner without repercussions, our democracy has no future.' Telecommunications giant AT&T is spying on…
Israel’s Blockade of Gaza is Inherently Violent
By Mike Merryman-Lotze | (Otherwords) | - - Every day Palestinians live in fear of another U.S.-funded attack by the Israeli government. This fall, the U.S. agreed to provide $38 billion in…
Why is the US helping Saudi Arabia target Yemen’s future?
By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment ) | - - Saudi Arabia has long been accused of needlessly hitting civilian targets during its air campaign in neighbouring Yemen. Most commentators have put…
Trump says Clinton will Start WW III with Russia, but Moscow Disagrees
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump alleged on Tuesday that if elected, Hillary Clinton would start World War III with Russia over Syria. He wondered how Clinton…
Girl Soldiers: Forgotten Casualties of War
By Pat Hynes | ( Truthdig ) | - - As secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was visibly shaken by sexual crimes against women and girls when she visited the Democratic Republic…
Israel Envy and Trump’s Wall
By Shalom Goldman | (Patheos) | - - In the current presidential campaign, Republicans and Democrats seem to be competing with each other to proclaim their “pro-Israel” stances. In a March address…
Muslim American Voters in Swing States Calling for Total & Complete Shutdown of Trump Candidacy
Dena Takruri | (AJ+ Video Report) | - - "Muslims have come up more in this election than ever before. But did you know they could actually swing the election? AJ+'s Dena…
Why couldn’t the Corporate Old Boys’ Network Stop Trump?
By Johan Chu & Jerry Davis | (The Conversation) | - - If corporate money controls our politics, as Bernie Sanders and others have claimed, then how did the Republican Party –…
Why Trump is (really) wrong to bet against US Military-backed Mosul Campaign
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As Josh Rogin pointed out, Donald Trump's pronouncement that the Mosul campaign is bound to fail is an affront to the Iraqi and…
American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq outlive Anti-War Legend Tom Hayden, RIP
TeleSur | - - A prolific author of over 20 books, Hayden cut his teeth as a student activist against the U.S. war in Vietnam with Students for a Democratic Society. Veteran…
Remember when Nazis stripped Jews of Citizenship? Now Israeli Right wants To
TeleSur | - - Coalition whip MK David Bitan also wants to strip citizenship from B'Tselem director Hagai El-Ad, after he made calls to sanction Israel. “The only democracy in the Middle…
Gun Industry in US kills 7 Kids a Day
By Gary Younge | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Every day, on average, seven kids and teens are shot dead in America. Election 2016 will undoubtedly prove consequential in many ways,…
Iraqi Kurdistan forces take Bashiqa on road to Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday, AFP reports in Arabic, Iraqi forces continued their advance on Mosul despite the car bombs and sniping tactics of Daesh (ISIS,…
101st Illegal Land Grab: Israel Squatters Seize Palestinian-owned lands in Jordan Valley
IMEMC News | - - Late last week, Israeli settlers reportedly took over a Palestinian-owned area of land in al-Humma region of the northern Jordan Valley, and laid down an infrastructure, according…
Norman Finkelstein on 58 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Tommaso Segantini interviews Norman Finkelstein | (TeleSur) | - - Renowned scholar and political activist Norman Finkelstein speaks with teleSUR English about a range of issues around Israel's occupation of Palestine. The…
Will Kurdish Soldiers Withdraw From Parts Of Mosul Their Leaders Covet?
By Histyar Qader | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | - - Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan have agreed where Kurdish military should fight. But, as commanders worry, there’s been no agreement as to how…
China’s Wind Co. Profits, share price soar by 60%: 2 Turbines an Hour being Installed
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The South China Post reports some incredible figures about the profitability China's wind energy companies. A new study by the Bank of China…
ISIL feint toward Kirkuk defeated, but Kills hundreds in Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aside from the slow, steady advances being made by the Iraqi army and its allies against Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Mosul, the two…
Khizr Khan campaign ad for Hillary Clinton finishes off Trump
Captain Khan | Hillary Clinton - Juan Cole from July 31 at Informed Comment: Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday against Ghazala and Khizr Khan over their speech Thursday night in which…
White College Students Angry they originated in Africa
TeleSur | - - A group of white students at Texas State University stormed out of anthropology class Friday after the professor explained all humans were descended from Africa. The walkout caused…
Failing Libya
By Alison Pargeter | ( OpenDemocracy) | - - If peace and national unity in Libya seem remote five years after the fall of the Qadhafi regime, western powers and the international…
Will Turkey, Iran & Iraq make the Mosul Campaign a Land Grab?
By James Miller | ( RFE/RL ) | - - We may be witnessing the end of the extremist group, the [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS), as we know it. Over the…
Polls: Capt. Trump aiming GOP Flight 2016 at nearest mountain
David Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - In weighted opinion polls, Hillary Clinton crushed Donald J. Trump in Wednesday night's debate, with a 10 to 13 percent spread. On Wednesday night,…
Hillary Clinton Roasts Donald Trump At 2016 Al Smith Dinner
Fox 10 Phoenix | (Video) | - - "Hillary Clinton isn't holding back against Donald Trump at the annual Al Smith dinner in New York. Clinton joked that if Trump didn't like…
Trump Campaign: The Donald’s 5-Point Plan to Defeat Islam
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, went on MSNBC touting the Republican candidate's "5-point plan to defeat Islam." She later clarified that…
The Mosul Campaign and the 3rd Presidential Debate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some of the more extended comments on the Mosul campaign were those of Hillary Clinton. Here is Wallace's question: WALLACE: . . .…
Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?
Joseph Saltarelli | (Huffington Post) | - - “[Jill] to the left of me, [Hillary] to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” - Adapted from Stealers Wheel…
Selling arms to Arab rulers won’t improve security in the Middle East
By Stephanie Dornschneider | (Informed Comment) | - - As a child, Najeh Ibrahim, who founded one of the most violent groups in recent Egyptian history, loved his president. “We all loved…
ISIL Boasts: America will go down to defeat in the Streets of Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AFP is reporting that a news agency linked to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), "A`maq," is carrying a video of a Daesh fighter who swears…
Israeli Jim Crow: US-led ‘Peace Process’ Completely Collapses
By Sandy Tolan | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians. You won’t find any…
Even if Mosul is liberated, it won’t be the end of Islamic State
Simon Mabon | (The Conversation) | - - After weeks of speculation about an attempt to retake the city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State (IS), Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi…
7 Things to Know about Mosul
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) has begun…
The Jewish vote may swing key undecided counties, study says
By Daniel Parmer | (The Conversation) | - - Jews may account for roughly only 2 percent of the American adult population, but their concentration in a number of swing states and…
Can America’s Middle Class make a Comeback?
By Munir Moon | (Informed Comment) | - - The middle class is getting crushed. But there is hope. The most common argument about the middle class destruction is the declining or…
N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court
TeleSur | - - A state prosecutor had sought to charge Goodman with participating in a "riot" for filming an attack on protesters. A North Dakota judge has dismissed the "riot" charges…
As Winter Comes: 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza still Homeless from Israeli Airstrikes
By Ma'an News Agency | - - GAZA (Ma’an) -- The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov Thursday expressed concerns over the situation in Gaza, and urged…
ISIL’s loss of Dabiq: It was never about Armageddon, but Weak States
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Albawaba has an interview with political scientist Khalid Rif`at of the Tayyiba Center for Political Studies, saying that the forced withdrawal of Daesh…
The Vanity of the Billionaires: Circuses and no Bread
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Rome was a republic until between 40 and 27 BCE, when the generals overthrew it. Military dictator Gaius Octavius put the nail in…
US Should Stop Making Excuses for Saudi Violations in Yemen
By Priyanka Motaparthy | ( Human Rights Watch) | - - Despite rising outrage over the bloody civilian toll in Yemen’s war, the United States administration is showing no signs of breaking…
Journalist Amy Goodman to Surrender and Fight Dakota Charges
By TeleSur | - - Update: North Dakota prosecutor changes charge against Amy Goodman to 'rioting.' The Democracy Now! host said the charge is a “direct attack" on freedom of the press.…
Sunni Clans in Iraq threaten Reprisals against ISIL Collaborators
Kamal al-Ayash | Anbar | (Niqash.org) | - - In Ramadi, tribes are marking houses belonging to suspected Islamic State [group] collaborators with special graffiti. Often the houses are demolished two or…
Were Kansas White Terrorists Self-Radicalized? or was it Trumpism?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Tim Potter and Amy Renee Leiker of The Kansas City Star report that 3 southwest Kansas men were arrested Friday after an 8-month…
Trump’s voter intimidation revives tactics of Jim Crow white supremacists
By Donald Nieman | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump has a lot in common with former Confederates – white southerners who “redeemed” the South by bringing an end to Reconstruction…
Muslim Americans eager to take revenge on Trump… at Ballot Box
TeleSur | - - More than 70 percent of U.S. Muslims said that they will vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, according to a new survey released…
PA welcomes UNESCO resolution criticizing Israeli policies toward Aqsa
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Following a controversial UNESCO vote that saw the adoption of a draft resolution that sharply criticized Israeli policies around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while…
Dylan, the American Left, and What We have Lost
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Bob Dylan would no doubt be as distressed as the American corporate media to see an ideological interpretation of his 1960s anthems that…
Trumpists beat Muslim-American Child of frmr Fulbrighter, harass Family out of US
By TeleSur | - - After a series of violent attacks and recrimination, an esteemed Muslim academic flees the U.S. Abdul Aziz returned home from school last week, his face bruised, his…
Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?
John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border…
Michelle Obama: Trump a Cruel, Lifetime Sexual Predator – “It Hurts.”
Michelle Obama | New Hampshire Speech on Trump | - - Transcript via NPR: - - . . . And now, here I am, out on the campaign trail in an election…
US Goes to War with Houthis in Yemen (Openly)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US Navy in the Red Sea fired Tomahawk missiles into Yemen early Thursday morning, taking out three radar stations. Those facilities had…
Gaza, open air Israeli prison, has reached 2 mn. Population
By IMEMC | - - The population of the Gaza Strip reportedly exceeded two million, on Tuesday night, following the birth of Walid Jihad Shaat, from the Rafah district, southern Gaza. Official…
Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats
By TeleSur | - - A dozen police officers face "benign" discipline after they appeared with Donald Trump while sporting his “Make America Great Again” caps in uniform. More than a dozen…
Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups
By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join…
Clinton brings back Gore, talks Green, but still Opposes Carbon Tax
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaigned in Miami with Al Gore, attempting both to shore up her credentials with both environmentalists and Millennial youth.…
Apocalypse Or Bust: ISIL and the Battle For Dabiq
By David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | - - The town of Dabiq, in northern Syria, around 25 miles from Aleppo, with its population of just under 3,500, is an unimpressive…
In a Multipolar World, the US can no Longer Intervene at Will
By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - In the strangest election year in recent American history -- one in which the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson couldn’t even conjure up…
Eight ways that Islamophobia operates in everyday life
Peter Hopkins, Gurchathen Sanghera, and Kate Botterill | (The Conversation) | - - Immigration and national identity currently are at the forefront of the public conscience. In France, the burkini ban and…
Would US have more security if it spent on Global Ed instead of on War industries?
By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | - - NEW YORK – The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new…
The Unbearable Horror of Donald Trump
By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - Monday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was a bizarre, disorienting carnival from the start. It was one of the only…
Russia and Turkey Make up: What implications for Syria, Kurds?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Turkey on Monday for direct talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in a bid to further normalize…
Why does Israel have 200K Palestinians in WB Refugee Camps under Siege?
By Fabíola Ortiz | (Inter Press Service) | - - An eight-meter-high "security wall" borders part of the Aida refugee camp, 1.5 km north of the city of Bethlehem. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS…
The Future is Here: Massive floating Wind Turbines off Scotland by 2017
The Economist | (Video Report) "It is not just utility companies racing to respond to the rise of renewable energy. Oil and gas giant Statoil is building on four decades of offshore…
Die-Hard Trump Supporters want to *be* Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Back in the 1960s when the James Bond craze hit the US and even President Jack Kennedy revealed that he liked Ian Fleming's…
Starving Yemen
By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy ) | - - Is the forgotten war turning into a forgotten famine? What answers will we give when the next generation ask how we could…
GOP finally shocked as Trump admits to being serial Groper of white women on Hot Mic
By TeleSur | - - Trump was caught using vulgar terms to refer to women he tried to seduce. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged about groping, aggressively kissing and making sexual…
Saudi Airstrikes kill Hundreds of Civilians, maim hundreds at Yemeni Funeral
By TeleSur | - - Saudi Arabia and 10 of its Middle East allies began their military offensive in Yemen with over 100 warplanes and 150,000 troops. Saudi-led warplanes killed at least…
Federal Israel-Palestine? A Center-Left Israeli One State Solution
IBA News VOD | (Video Interview) | - - "Federation Movement Founder Emanuel Shahaf Explains One-state vision for Palestinian-Israeli peace." IBA News VOD: "Federation Movement's One-state Proposal Explained by Emanuel Shahaf"
How Far will Americans take anti-Muslim Hate? Making them wear Green Stars?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The de facto criminalization of being Muslim or speaking Arabic, which is contrary to every core American value and contradicts the First Amendment,…
The Graveyard of ISIL
By Mustafa Sadoun | Fallujah | ( Niqash.org) | - - NIQASH visits an ISIL cemetery in Fallujah and finds the hastily built, last resting places of several of the group's leaders,…
Dear Donald Trump: I treat combat veterans with PTSD, and they are not weak
By Joan Cook | (The Conversation) | - - Mr. Trump, there’s someone I’d like you to meet. Well, not one person per se, but the thousands of veterans I’ve had the…
The Other Aleppo: A rare portrait of the Government-held Western City
Channel Four News | (Video News Report) | - - "We have seen the tragedy of East Aleppo which is under siege and fierce bombardment from the Syrian and Russian armies -…
Yemen & Dubai may be at War, but both are going Solar Big Time
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There is big news on the solar energy front, with the price of panels and installation falling rapidly and popular adoption of it…
Didn’t Stop Matthew: Fl. Gov. Rick Scott Banned term ‘Climate Change’
Lest we forget, here is a 2015 column full of ironies for Florida's increasingly dire climate change challenge: Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - Since 2011, environmental agency…
As Battle w/ ISIL for Mosul nears, Iraq should exclude Abusive Militias
Human Rights Watch | - - Role of Abusive Armed Forces, Treatment, and Screening of Detainees (Beirut) – The Iraqi government should make a commitment to prevent any armed forces implicated in…
The Ugly American: Donald Trump is our Mirror, not an Outlier
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - This is not about Donald Trump. And I mean it. From the moment the first scribe etched a paean of praise to…
De Mistura: al-Qaeda must leave E. Aleppo to save it from Destruction
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has addressed the Levant Conquest Front, whose leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, has pledged allegiance to…
Hurricane Matthew a Herald of Man-Made Climate Change
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - If your tv isn't telling you the below, turn it off and read more Informed Comment columns instead. Hurricane Matthew is unusually strong,…
Return of Virulent Nationalism: how language is being used to mark national borders
Mario Saraceni | (The Conversation) | - - According to a series of newspapers, immigrants will apparently change the English language in Britain beyond repair over the next 50 years. The Daily…
NSA again hacked by own Contractor, but wants us to trust them with our Data
TeleSur | - - “I thought the Third World War had started,” the man’s neighbor described the raid and arrest in August. A National Security Agency (NSA) contractor has been arrested and…
Israeli Military seizes Female Gaza aid Flotilla
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed 'to highlight the vital role women play not only in the resistance movement, but in…
“Little Trump” Pence: Bomb Syria, confront Russia, smear refugees; & smoking doesn’t cause Cancer
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump running mate Mike Pence continued the unreality of this election season in Tuesday's debate by denying many things that are true and…
Balder & Dash: Would our presidential Candidates start a Nuclear War? They won’t answer.
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - You may have missed it. Perhaps you dozed off. Or wandered into the kitchen to grab a snack. Or by that point…
Yahoo helped in unconstitutional US Gov. mass Surveillance of Americans’ Email
By Andrew Crocker and Mark Rumold | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from…
Death by the numbers: A year of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel
By Chloe Benoist | Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave of unrest, a Palestinian upheaval, or even…
US breaks off Military Cooperation with Russia in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Arab press reacted to the announcement on Monday by the US government that it was ending its military cooperation with the Russian…
In Mosul, ISIL Extremists Wall in Residents, prepare for Armageddon
Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | - - In Mosul, the Islamic State is preparing for a siege, building walls, tunnels and trenches and boasting that, like the Prophet Mohammed in…
The Challenge for the Arab World of tackling Gender-based Violence
By Lina Abirafeh | (The Conversation) | - - It should now be beyond dispute that gender-based violence is a critical human rights issue – possibly the most important human rights challenge…
Marvel’s New Black Panther Comic – Q&A With Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates | (The Atlantic Video) "The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Fantom Comics in Dupont Circle, Washington DC to take questions from fans about his work on the new run of Marvel's…
Whose Fault is Trump? Top 7 Culprits
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign platform has from the beginning been based on racism, religious bigotry, class warfare of the rich on workers,…
Can Saudi Arabia Survive its Economic ‘Shock Therapy’?
By Nasser Saidi | (Project Syndicate) | - - BEIRUT – Saudi Arabia has long relied on oil to fuel its economic growth and development. Last year, oil accounted for about three-quarters…
Dear Americans: Want Security? Try the Bill of Rights
By Karen J. Greenberg | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - One vivid image of the historical relationship between government power and individual liberties in America has long been the swing of the…
Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories
By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…
Syria: Russia warns of Mideast Apocalypse if US attacks al-Assad’s military
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - ABC News reports that Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that a U.S. attack on the Syrian army "will lead to terrible, tectonic…
Backfire: Did Volkswagen’s Dieselgate ensure victory of Electric Cars?
By EurActiv.com | - - The ‘Dieselgate’ scandal will mark an important step towards phasing out the hundred-year-old internal combustion engine which doesn’t have a place in a modern, low-carbon transport system,…
Nixonian Donald Trump threatens writers who dare Criticize him
By Richard Tofel | ProPublica | - - In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, and the first willing to venture criticism…
President Trump’s Extreme Vetting of Immigrants (Satire Skit)
Maz Jobrani | (Video skit) | - - "Donald Trump has said that if he wins he will do EXTREME VETTING of all immigrants. He hasn't said how that would work, but…
Syria Quagmire: Has Russia Accomplished anything in a year of Bombing?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Alarabiya says that Russia has killed over 3,000 civilians in its bombing raids of the past year. BBC Monitoring translated an article by…Iran releases Canadian Academic it accused of ‘Feminism,’ but Crackdown on Women Activists Continues
By Mahsa Alimardani | ( Globalvoices.org) | - - Some good news reached Canada this week when Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian anthropologist, was released after months of incarceration in Iran. Hoodfar is…