Saudi Saturday Night Massacre: Billionaire Bin Talal, dozens of others Arrested
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - King Salman of Saudi Arabia created a…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - King Salman of Saudi Arabia created a…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Somehow Secretary of Energy Rick Perry managed…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir…
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Saudi Saturday Night Massacre: Billionaire Bin Talal, dozens of others Arrested
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - King Salman of Saudi Arabia created a high-powered "anti-corruption" commission on Saturday, appointing his son, the crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman, to head…Lebanon PM Hariri Resigns in fear for Life, Slamming Iran
Middle East Monitor | - - Lebanon’s prime minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday, citing an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of sowing strife in…Does Religion Cause Violence?
By Maxwell Kennel | (The Conversation) | - - It’s a common question that arises when discussing religion, politics and world crises, particularly apparent terrorist attacks of the type that played out…Voices of Yemen’s ‘Forgotten War’ Speak Out, Despite Legal Barriers
Global Advocacy Netizen Report | (GlobalVoices.org) Yemeni blogger Afrah Nasser was awarded this year’s International Free Press Award for her work covering the conflict in Yemen despite the many obstacles faced by…Escaping Death: Meet The Rohingya Muslim Refugees Fleeing Myanmar (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | - - "Late at night, Dudu Mia and his family wash up on the shores of Bangladesh. Their village in neighboring Myanmar was attacked by the…Rick Perry has it Backwards: Oil causes Mass Rape
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Somehow Secretary of Energy Rick Perry managed to find Africa, and while he was there, he learned that a lot of people don't…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…