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What’s the Difference between Roy Moore and a Muslim extreme Fundamentalist? A Cowboy Hat
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Both Christianity and Islam as religions comprise…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Both Christianity and Islam as religions comprise…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - French President Emmanuel Macron has a program…
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What’s the Difference between Roy Moore and a Muslim extreme Fundamentalist? A Cowboy Hat
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Both Christianity and Islam as religions comprise large numbers of people and contain a spectrum of believers from the secular to the moderate…The Unlikely Industry Empowering Women in Afghanistan
By Ruchi Kumar | (Yes! Magazine) | = = In this deeply conservative society, these women are busting stereotypes every day. The typical depiction of an Afghan woman looks like this: Timid…Saudi Prince who Bought da Vinci Painting could have given Sight to 9 Million Instead
By Peter Singer | (Project Syndicate) | - - A Saudi prince has been revealed to be the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi," for which he spent $450.3 million. Had…Leaving US in Dust, China starts $150 Million Floating Solar Plant Project
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Three Gorges Group project commenced in July of this year and is expected to be completed and fully streamlined by May 2018.…Exodus of Climate Scientists to France only the Beginning if GOP Guts Grad Education
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - French President Emmanuel Macron has a program he calls MAPA - "Making the Planet Great Again." His government is offering funding to climate…Christian Palestinians Reject meeting with Mike Pence
IMEMC News | - - Christian Palestinians, along with Muslims, held a protest in front of the historic Church of the Nativity, after Sunday prayers, to express their rejection of US president…3 Ways ISIL Terrorism Will Continue even after the end of the “Caliphate”
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - The Destruction of the Dream of Extremist Warfare, 2014-2017 On Saturday the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al Abadi, announced that the last…The Difference between Israeli Policy and Turkish: Calling Each other Terrorist State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - First, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas on Dec. 10, in which he said, “Israel…Smoking Gun: Did the Russians admit to Interference in the US Election?
By Don Van Atta | (Informed Comment) | - - A little-noticed Russian diplomatic approach to the US on 17 July amounted to an official admission by the Russian Federation that it…Toward a Federal United States of Israel & Palestine?
By David Gerald Fincham They say that the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is dead. Good. Partition was never the right way out of the conflict. The two peoples need to…When Will America’s Wars have their Harvey Weinstein Moment?
By Andrew J. Bacevich | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - What makes a Harvey Weinstein moment? The now-disgraced Hollywood mogul is hardly the first powerful man to stand accused of having abused women.…Why Aren’t Americans Celebrating fall of ISIL State? It is a bogeyman
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Other people are celebrating the defeat of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) on the battlefield and its destruction as a territorial state. Russia issued an…Saudi Blockade depriving Yemen Civilians of Food, Hospitals–UN should Sanction Riyadh (HRW)
Human rights Watch | - - The Saudi-led coalition’s broad restrictions on aid and essential goods to Yemen’s civilian population are worsening the country’s humanitarian catastrophe. (Beirut) – The Saudi-led coalition’s broad…The Rapture of Dominionists: Now Evangelicals are Dictating US Mideast Policy
By Julie Ingersoll | (The Conversation) | - - President Trump’s announcement on Wednesday, Dec. 6 that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel received widespread criticism. Observers quickly…In Photos: Israeli police use force to break up protest in East Jerusalem
Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police on Saturday entered occupied East Jerusalem on foot and on horseback, and suppressed a peaceful Palestinian demonstration against US President Donald…Massive worldwide Rallies Condemn US, Courtesy Trump Jerusalem Call
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Ayat Ahmad reports for Elbalad (Beirut, liberal) that Friday saw huge, angry demonstrations against the United States in the Palestinian West Bank, Jordan,…Saudi Crown Prince splashed $450 mn on Jesus painting
Middle East Monitor | - - Mystery over the secret buyer of a record $450.3 million painting was solved after it was discovered that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had used…Trump-Mideast: Much More than a â€?Kiss of Death’ to Palestinians
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Ervice) | - - ROME, (IPS) - US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital does not represent only a â€?kiss of death’…Trump’s Gift to Hizbullah weakens Saudi Hand in Beirut
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Hassan Nasrullah, the secretary general of Lebanon's Hizbullah, called for a new Palestinian uprising or intifada in the wake of Trump's recognition of…Jared Kushner: “Peace Envoy” & Funder of Illegal Israeli Squatters in Palestine
By Justin Elliott | ( ProPublica) | - - While Jared Kushner is working on a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the Kushner Companies Charitable Foundation is funding a…