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Archives: September 2016
Saudi women demand full rights, end to guardianship system
By Sarah Aziza | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - In Saudi Arabia, a country many view as synonymous with gender discrimination, women are seeing signs of change. While a few…
Would Trump in White House defraud us into Crash worse than 2008?
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis…
Top Six things *You* can Do to Stop Global Warming – Bill Nye
AJ+ | (Video) "Bill Nye the Science Guy has a few solutions to curbing climate change and putting a stop to global warming." AJ+: " Bill Nye's Climate Call To Action" 1.…
How the JASTA override on Saudi could Bite Americans in the Ass
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, but Congress has for the first time in his presidency over-ridden his veto.…
Syro-Russian Hospital Bombings in Aleppo “War Crimes,” worse than Slaughterhouse- Ban Ki-moon
By TeleSur | - - Western media reports that the airstrikes were conducted by Syrian or Russian aircraft as part of an offensive launched by President Bashar al-Assad. At least six people…
Palestinian families forced to raze their homes amid spike in Israeli-enforced demolitions
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- Two Palestinian families in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina were forced to demolish their own homes for being built without…
RIP Shimon Peres: Last Great Israeli leader to believe in 2 State solution
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I met an emperor once, but have only met a couple of presidents. Shimon Peres (1923-2016) was one. I met him briefly in…
If Spec Ops are the future of the US Military, it isn’t Winning many Wars
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Americans expect to be number one. First Lady Michelle Obama recently called the United States the “greatest country on Earth.” (Take that, world public opinion, and your…
Vote For Hillary Clinton Or Die in a Fiery Apocalypse: A Letter To Young Progressives
By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - Dear young progressives, If recent polls are to be believed, younger progressive voters like you are either preparing to vote in unusually large…
The Presidential Debate that did not really Happen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Regular readers will know that in my view the 2016 presidential election did not happen. Likewise, the first debate between the two candidates…
Israel Apartheid Wall Is the Muse to Trump’s Mexico Border Wall
By TeleSur | - - Trump's signature campaign propsosal is modeled, he says, on Israel’s “successful separation barrier." Ahead of Monday’s presidential debate between U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and U.S.…
Syria, Russia push to take East Aleppo pocket as airstrikes kill 66, wound 200
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Only a week after seeming to agree to a ceasefire, Russia and the Syrian regime in Damascus appear to have decided to throw…
Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians
By Human Rights Watch | - - Authorities Fail to Prevent, Punish Violent Attacks (Tunis) – A long-awaited new law maintains restrictions over the construction and renovation of churches and discriminates against…
Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | - - "Donald Trump is one of those stupid guys who thinks he’s smart. The media still lets him…
ISIL used Chem on US Troops in Iraq; but this time US Gov’t isn’t talking WMD
By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | - - The group known as Islamic State (IS) reportedly used a sulpur-mustard gas against US troops in Iraq. It was detected in a black…
The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average temperature to know that…
Netanyahu: I hope Obama won’t seek to establish a Palestinian state
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he “hoped” US President Barack Obama would not seek to establish a Palestinian state at the…
Trump’s Pro-ISIS Foreign Policy
By Fawaz A. Gerges | ( Project Syndicate ) | - - LONDON – Donald Trump’s recent claim that his opponent in the US presidential race, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,…
Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know
By Clark D. Cunningham | (The Conversation) | - - Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public…
Number of US Troops in Iraq Heading toward 6,000
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US plans to send another 500 troops to Iraq to help with the massive Mosul campaign, which will involve the Iraqi army…
Questioning US Arms Sales, impunity for Saudi Arabia
By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) | - - The bi-partisan failure to review the nature and benefit of the US-Saudi relationship has been a striking feature of US foreign policy for…
Israel releases Jerusalem journalist after she served 6-months for Facebook post
By Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities released Palestinian journalist Samah Dweik on Monday, after she served nearly six months in prison over charges of “incitement.” Family…
Colonial Slow Genocide: Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking Britain for an apology for its having in 1917 issued the infamous "Balfour Declaration." He won't…
UN Calls Out Saudi Arabia for Killing Yemeni Women and Children
By TeleSur | - - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanded all parties fighting in Yemen "fully respect their obligations under international humanitarian law." In a rare move, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called…
Iraq’s Growth Industry: Free-Lance Civilian Bomb Disposal
By Kamal al-Ayash | Ramadi | ( Niqash.org) | - - Locals are struggling to get rid of the explosive booby-traps the Islamic State left as they withdrew from Ramadi. For one…
America’s New Reality: Mad Bombers, Merchants of Death, & Lawmaking Harlots
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories.…
Why the Boeing & Airbus Sales to Iran are a Big Effing Deal
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the real power center for the American government, has issued licenses to…
Montazeri recording surfaces condemning mass killings that Haunt Iran’s Revolution
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | - - Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to become Iran's supreme leader, has come back from the grave to haunt the Islamic…
Stopping the War on Children
Kevin Watkins | ( Project Syndicate ) | - - On the twentieth anniversary of the Machel report, the international community must draw a line and stop the war against children. That…
US College Course on Palestine Reinstated after Cancellation under pressure from Israel Lobbies
By IMEMC | - - University of California, Berkeley, has reinstated a course on Palestine that was cancelled under pressure from pro-Israel groups, according to a press release. Palestine Legal said, according…
Top Six US Problems worse than Terrorism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Every time a person of Middle Eastern heritage who ought to have been committed to an insane asylum but wasn't (because rich people…
Welcome to Masdar City: the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living
By Susan Lee | (The Conversation) | - - Ten years ago in the United Arab Emirates, a new settlement was started from scratch, with the aim of becoming “the world’s most…
Native American Rights and Health versus Pipeline Cowboys
By Chip Ward | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Americans who don’t live in the West may think that the historic clash of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past…
Obama: End terrorism like that in New York by Destroying ISIL in Mosul, Iraq
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Obama met yesterday with Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi and discussed the coming campaign to take the northern Iraqi city of Mosul…
Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek: First Minority Awardee for Best Actor in a Drama in 18 Years
TeleSur | - - It took nearly two decades, but the the first [minority] actor to win an Emmy for the role of Best Actor in a Drama has just been named.…
Syria: Are Russo-Iranian and US-Saudi interests converging enough for a Ceasefire?
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) The Syrian civil war is now in its sixth year, with occasional ceasefire deals made and violated by the warring parties being a cyclical process. The…
Can Education for Tolerance help Muslim-Christian Relations in Europe?
By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME, Sep 19 2016 (IPS) - Although 20 million Muslims reside in Western Europe, establishing social harmony between the Muslim community and…
5 Signs that Wind Power in the US is suddenly going Massive
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iowa Utility Board has approved a $3 bn. MidAmerica wind farm project which will be the country's largest, due to come on…
Can Palestinians fight their Displacement with Oral History?
By Thayer Hastings | (Al-Shabaka) | Ma'an News Agency | - - Oral history has a long precedent in Arab and Palestinian culture that stems from a broader oral tradition. In the…
The myth and history of Sunni-Shia divide
By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy ) | - - Sunnis and Shias have lived together in peace for centuries, and up to the new millennium have barely had a history…
Dear Generation Z: So sorry for bequeathing to you terrorism hysteria and all those Wars
By Peter Van Buren | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I recently sent my last kid off for her senior year of college. There are rituals to such moments, and because dad-confessions…
Trump’s Behavior like Male Chimp Dominance Ritual: Jane Goodall
TeleSur | - - Chimpanzees throw rocks and cans at their rivals as “dominance rituals,” Goodall said, which in many ways reminds her of Donald Trump. While different in looks, U.S. Republican…
George Clooney Report Ruffles Feathers in South Sudan
TeleSur | - - The report "can only jeopardize the pursuit of peace and stability," South Sudan representatives said. A new report claiming that South Sudan’s leaders have exploited the country’s ongoing…
In Massive Intel Error, US Kills 80 Syrian Troops, Helps ISIL Advance
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a massive intelligence failure, the US Air Force hit a Syrian military installation in Deir al-Zor that it thought was Daesh (ISIS,…
The Green Current: A Superhero
By Juan Cole | Informed Comment | (Graphic Novel) | - - Ali Saleh was an ordinary American teenager at Dearborn High. His father, Dr. Mahmoud Saleh, who had been born in…
“Pigs! Crusaders!”: US-Backed Fundamentalist Militias drive US Commandos out of al-Ray, Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As Raf Sanchez of The Telegraph writes, fundamentalist militiamen of the US-backed Free Syrian Army chased US commandos out of al-Ray in Syria…
Is the Native American pipeline resistance in N. Dakota about climate justice?
By Kyle Powys Whyte | (The Conversation) | - - Over the past months, hundreds of indigenous persons and their allies have gathered near the crossing of the Missouri and Cannon Ball…
Trump: Disarm Sec. Clinton’s bodyguards: & “let’s see what happens to her.”
CNN | (Video News Report) | - - "During a Miami rally, Donald Trump wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret Service detail be disarmed, saying "take their…
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Must End, Says UK Parliament Report
TeleSur | - - Two parliamentary committees said it was likely Saudi Arabia used U.K. weapons to target civilians, but Tory lawmakers blocked a vote on suspending sales. Sales of British weapons…
“This Parrot is no More”: The 2016 Presidential Election did not Take Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote a book in 1991 entitled The Gulf War did not Take Place . In the same way, the…
Muslim-Americans are *Americans* & can’t be Reduced to stage Props for the 2 Parties
By Raed Jarrar | ( Otherwords.org) Both Democrats and Republicans are spreading the same Islamophobic message: you're either with us, or you're against us. On August 31, Nazma Khanam, a 60-year-old Muslim…
Endangering the Planet: Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice caps, and fast-rising sea levels, ratification of…
Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli Squatters
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces Thursday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the neighborhood of Saadiya in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem…
Trump-inspired felon allegedly torches Ft. Pierce FL Mosque, says “All Islam is radical”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Joseph Michael Schreiber stands accused of having carried out an arson attack against a mosque in Fort Pierce, Florida, about an hour's drive…
Busting the Myths about Syrian Refugees in the US
Jeffrey H. Cohen | (The Conversation) | - - On Sept. 12, a new cease-fire took effect in Syria. With a lull in fighting, some are hopeful for an end to the…
Israel gets $38 Bn from US as it Strangles Palestinian Economy
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Palestinian economy remains “worrying” as growth stagnation, delays in aid delivery, and Israeli restrictions continue to seriously impede improvements to the Palestinian…
Obama has one last Chance to remedy his Colossal Failure on Palestine/Israel
By Carl Bildt | ( Project Syndicate ) | - - STOCKHOLM – Next year marks the centennial of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement that paved the way for Israel’s founding…
Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were ‘Necessary, Vital Things’
by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - 'I think when people look at the calculations of benefit, it is clear that in the wake of 2013 the laws of…
Right-wing Israeli ministers meet with Facebook to discuss censoring ‘anti-Semitic incitement’
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Two right-wing Israeli ministers reportedly met with top Facebook executives on Monday in an effort to “minimize online anti-Semitic incitement,” according to Israeli…
Syria Truce holds, despite questions on Humanitarian Aid
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The London pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-`Arabi reports that the truce that began Monday night held during its first twenty-four hours, in the areas…
End of the ‘Caliphate’ in Iraq? After Qayyarah, Mosul hangs in the Balance
Special Correspondent | (Niqash.org) | - - The liberation of the northern Iraqi town of Qayyarah from the [so-called] Islamic State group [IS] is a strategic victory in defeating the extremists, in…
As Truce Starts, Russia Tells Free Syrian Army to Stop Fighting Kurds
TeleSur | - - Moscow added it would continue its own air strikes against the Islamic State group and the militants formerly known as the Nusra Front Russia's Defense Ministry called on…
What did we buy with the $5 Trillion that the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars have cost us?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A Boston U. political scientist estimates that as of 2016, The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars have cost the American taxpayers $5 trillion. That…
A Nomad Between Worlds: Badawi
By Erdağ Göknar | (Los Angeles Review of Books) | - - MOHED ALTRAD’S DEBUT NOVEL Badawi begins in the Cold War–era Middle East, where the Bedouin tradition of a nomadic life…
Shadows of Plutocracy darken over our Democracy in this Election
By Bill Moyers | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Sixty-six years ago this summer, on my 16th birthday, I went to work for the daily newspaper in the small East Texas…
The Millenarian Dimensions of the Attempted Coup in Turkey and implications for Muslim Modernism & Traditionalism
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - The failed July 15 coup in Turkey has generated a whole range of debates on who was really behind the coup, Turkey’s future…
Iran and Hizbullah Welcome Kerry-Lavrov Syria Ceasefire
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Hizbullah, the national guard for South Lebanon, announced Saturday that it supports the agreement on a truce in Syria, where its fighters have been…
15 Years after 9/11, can we Recover our Republic?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Founding Fathers thought keeping a standing army was a danger to democracy. The great wars of the twentieth century appear to have…
What’s The Hajj About, Anyway?
AJ+ | (Video Report) | - - "The Hajj: It's one of the biggest gatherings in the world, with millions of Muslims from everywhere making the pilgrimage to the city of Mecca…
Can ISIL survive scenes of Sunni Muslims celebrating their Liberation from it?
By James Miller | ( RFE/RL) What a difference a month makes. At the start of August, the extremist group that calls itself Islamic State (IS) [group]controlled a large part of the…
9/11 after 15 years: We’re Still in the Middle of a guerrilla Air War
By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - On the morning of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda launched its four-plane air force against the United States. On board were its precision weapons: 19…
US and Russia plan Joint Air Command to hit Terrorists in Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Pentagon isn't going to be happy about this. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced an agreement…
Nearly 500 more US Troops sent to Iraq for Mosul Attack in advance of Election Day
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Stars and Stripes is reporting that the number of US troops in Iraq has risen from 4,000 to 4,460 in preparation for the…
Clinton: No US ground troops in Iraq, Syria; Trump: Steal Iraqi Oil
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The NBC Candidates Forum continued the shameful corporate coverage of the Great American Meltdown that is our election season. That season has given…
Donald Trump’s “sharia law” Bogeyman is more Islamophobia
By Lena Salaymeh | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting of those who believe that “sharia law” should supplant American law. Newt Gingrich suggested that Muslims…
Is Modern Israel a Right Wing Project?
By Yakov M Rabkin | (Informed Comment) | - - The recent appointment of the Soviet-born Avigdor Lieberman has aggrieved many liberal supporters of Israel. The man is on record as a…
Saudi Bigot-in-Chief Declares Iranian Shiites “Not Muslim”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - `Abd al-Aziz Al Shaikh, the chief jurisconsult or mufti for the interpretation of Muslim law in Saudi Arabia, said Wednesday that Iranian Shiites…
The Violent Christian West should drop Islamophobia and work on itself
By Johan Galtung | (Inter Press Service) | - - ALICANTE, Spain (IPS) - Watching Christianity nearly a century–fundamentalist Christians fighting ritualistic Christians fighting secularism, generally moving fundamentalism–>ritualism–>secularism–maybe the same for Islam?…
Israel shuts down Palestinian radio station amid escalation in press violations
Ma'an News Agency | - - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces raided and ransacked a Palestinian radio station early Wednesday morning in the town of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank…
Saudis Should Not Run Hajj Pilgrimage: Iran
TeleSur | - - Pilgrims from Iran will be unable to attend hajj, which starts on Sept. 11 this year after talks between the two countries on arrangements broke down in May.…
With Defeat Looming, ISIL haunts Syria with 6 Bombings, Killing 53
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) is still acting like a military organization, but it has always mixed military with terrorist tactics. On Monday it slid…
Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline
AJ+ | (video News Report) - - "We take you inside the resistance camp in North Dakota that's protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,170-mile oil pipeline project that has been halted.…
Top 5 Ways Green Energy is already Helping American Workers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As we celebrate American workers (I prefer to honor workers today rather than the abstract "labor"), let's remember where their future lies. And…
The Other Terrorism: White Nationalist Twitter Growing Faster Than ISIL
TeleSur | - - “There is substantial and growing evidence that white nationalism is enjoying a meaningful resurgence within the United States . . ." Twitter users who identify themselves as white…
Most US Networks slight coverage as US & China join Paris Climate Accord in key Turning Point
By Guy Dinmore | (Inter Press Service) | - - HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) - The world’s super-polluters – the United States and China – have formally joined the Paris Agreement on climate…
Syria: Can Russia & US Broker a new Cease-Fire?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Stars and Stripes reports that US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov may be very near a new…
The Plague of Karimov’s Rule in Uzbekistan
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The death of Islam Karimov, the president for life of Uzbekistan who came to power in 1990 after the collapse of the Soviet…
EU condemns Israel’s approval of 463 squatter housing units across Palestinian West Bank
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- The European Union released a statement on Friday condemning an Israeli decision on Wednesday to approve plans for 463 new housing units in…
ISIL’s European Strategy
By Omar Ashour | ( Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – Terrorist attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates and sympathizers over the past year have raised alarms in Europe, but they…
Pope: Pollution, Carbon Emissions a Sin & Global Warming to harm the Poor
By Nika Knight, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Humans are turning the planet into a 'polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation, and filth,' says Pope Francis "The world's poor, though…
Top 8 Syrian-Americans whom we’d miss If Trump had Kept them out
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his fiery speech demonizing immigrants to America on Wednesday night, Trump took a moment to deplore that the Obama administration has admitted…
Florida: Politicians in Big Oil’s Pocket Beware, The People want their Solar
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Florida voters have overwhelmingly passed Amendment 4, which exempts solar panels and solar equipment from extra taxes. Before this, if someone put…
‘Unacceptable’ UN says US-Backed Iraqi Militias Recruiting Children
TeleSur | - - The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about reports the groups are using children on the frontlines of the fight against the Islamic State group. Amid reports…