Iran’s Khamenei to Putin: Isolate US by dumping the Dollar
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sean Hannity manages to combine being sneaky…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - John Kelly's ignorant remarks about the Civil…
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With 75% fall in flying Insects, Call for pesticide ban
By Samuel White | EurActiv.com | - - Scientists have raised the alarm after a study 27 years in the making found the biomass of flying insects in nature protected areas has…Syrian Army Liberates City of Deir Ezzor from ISIL
TeleSur | - - This marks a decisive defeat for the terrorist group which has seen its territory shrink at an exponential rate during 2017. The Syrian Army has declared a total…Abbas: British gov’t should recognize Palestine on Balfour centenary
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas released a statement on Thursday, the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, calling on the British government…Iran’s Khamenei to Putin: Isolate US by dumping the Dollar
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin visited Tehran on Wednesday for consultations with President Hassan Rouhani and the country's clerical leader,…Iraq after ISIL: Stuck between US and Iran
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - The US are occupiers, say some of Iraq’s militias. The militias need to disband, say US diplomats. Stuck in the middle is the…A century on, Balfour Declaration still colonizes Palestinians’ everyday lives
By Simon Mabon | (The Conversation) | - - With a simple 67-word letter sent on November 2, 1917, the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, irrevocably changed the political and geographic…A Visit to Heaven and Hell: Galeano
By Eduardo Galeano | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - [The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died in 2015. Thanks for its use…Dear Sean Hannity: Allahu Akbar is in the Catholic Catechism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sean Hannity manages to combine being sneaky with being a bully. You think of a bully as maybe too straightforward, someone who hulks…The Fall of the House of ISIL: Reduced from State to Random Terror
John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - ISIL* is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no…CIA Cache: Bin Laden loved watching ‘Resident Evil’
TeleSur | - - The CIA released the confidential materials "in the interest of transparency and to enhance public understanding of al-Qaida." The CIA has released previously secret files seized from Osama…Israeli forces suppress protests marking Balfour Declaration centenary
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bethlehem city on Wednesday following a march commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration,…Dear John Kelly: Yes, Slavery was wrong in 1860s & Muslims helped Convince Americans to end It
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - John Kelly's ignorant remarks about the Civil War and compromise on Laura Ingraham's show have rightly angered a lot of people. One of…How dangerous to Trump are charges against Manafort, Gates & Papadopoulos?
By Rachel Caufield | (The Conversation) | - - Five months into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of cooperation between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, Americans are seeing…Is Israel trying to Occupy the US 1st Amendment?
By Ramzy Baroud | (TeleSur) | - - Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the U.S. security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary people from the United…Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy…Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The indictment of George Papadopoulos, the foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign in 2016, for lying to the FBI is the most…Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship
By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | - - When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as “one…How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy
Reprint edn. Update: Reuters reports that "Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts" By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter,"…A mid-6th Century (Christian?) proto-Arabic Inscription from N. Arabia Mentioning Al-Ilah
(Politically oriented readers of IC please excuse this reprint of a path-breaking but extremely technical discussion in Arabian religious and linguistic history. It is highly important for the study of the beginnings…Rebuking Trump, IAEA Again Certifies Iran Compliance on Nuclear Deal
Zein Basravi | Al Jazeera English | (Video News Report) | - - "Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was in Tehran on Sunday, his first visit since…