Bannon’s Game: White Supremacist takeover of GOP
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Steve Bannon's trash-talking of the Trump in…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Steve Bannon's trash-talking of the Trump in…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Fascism as a political ideology is difficult…
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Can Turkish-Israeli Relations survive Trump’s Jerusalem Decision?
By Korshaid Dali | (Middle East Monitor) | - - People stage a protest against US President Donald Trump's announcement to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plans to relocate…Iranian Regime Must investigate killings of Protesters
Human Rights Watch | - - Halt Use of Excessive Force Against Demonstrators (Beirut) – Iranian authorities should refrain from using excessive force, investigate the deaths during the current protests across the…How Iran’s Protests could hit the Wider Middle East
By Josepha Ivanka Wessels | (The Conversation) | - - Roiling more than a dozen major cities, young Iranians are protesting against the country’s government. They appear to be particularly angered by…Palestine on Trump Aid Cut Threat: ‘We Won’t Be Blackmailed’
TeleSur | - - PLO top official Hanan Ashrawi warned President Trump that “Palestinian rights are not for sale.” Palestinians condemned as blackmail Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to withhold future…16 yr old Ahed Tamimi indicted for slapping an Israeli soldier
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- An Israeli military court on Monday indicted 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi on 12 charges, including assaulting an Israeli soldier, interfering with a…Dragon Ascendant: Green China, not Red China, increasingly Bestrides the World
Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | - - "Surpass Britain and catch up with America" was one of the more idealistic slogans put about by Mao Zedong after he reunited China back…Putin’s Medieval Romanticism and Russia’s Lurch Right
Dina Khapaeva | (Project Syndicate) | - - As much of the world makes amends for social and political injustices of the past, Russia is lionizing its despots, raising statues to the…America’s Biggest Mideast Foreign Policy Challenges in 2018
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In some ways, the United States faces a more favorable foreign policy environment in 2018 than it has in some years, with regard…Are Iran’s protests Economic or Political?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Neoconservative poobah Elliott Abrams slammed the New York Times for headlining an article about the Iran protests as being about the economy. (Abrams…Israeli Ruling Party Votes to Annex West Bank and Seize Last Palestinian Lands
TeleSur | - - “This is a historic event that we have been waiting for,” an extremist member of Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud Party said. The latest radical move by hardline Zionists…Soldiers of Peace: How to Wield the Weapon of Nonviolence With Maximum Force
H. Patricia Hynes, Review of Paul K. Chappell, Soldiers of Peace (Easton Studio Press, 2017) Author and prominent peace educator Paul Chappell observed that he had 12 years of math through calculus…Top 5 Signs Trump doesn’t Actually Care about Iranian Protesters
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump has tweeted as though he cares about the welfare of the Iranian protesters in small towns across that country who are upset…Social Media Imperialism? Facebook Bans Palestinian Content at Behest of Israel, US
TeleSur | - - Facebook has been working with Israeli Government officials to suppress Palestinian voices in the social media sphere according to a report published on Saturday in The Intercept. The…Did the US cause Iran’s Economic Protests & will Trump Take Advantage?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The scattered urban protests that began in Mashhad on Thursday spread to several other provincial cities on Friday, including Qom, Rasht, Kerman and…Egypt: Armed attack on Church south of Cairo leaves 10 Dead
Middle East Monitor | - - Egyptian media sources have reported that the Mar Mina Church in Helwan, south of Cairo, was attacked this morning, resulting in the death of several people,…Iraqi Kurdish Leaders’ No-Good very Bad Year
Histyar Qader | Erbil | (Niqash.org) | - - The end of the year brought strife to Iraqi Kurdistan, The northern region has to deal with a reduced area of influence, internal…Tehran Police say Iranian Women won’t be arrested over Dress Code
Middle East Monitor | - - TEHRAN, IRAN - JUNE 5: Iranian women perform as they train Far East Fighting Arts to be able to defend themselves, at the Jughin castle which…Saudi Arabia Killed 68 Yemeni Civilians in Just 1 Day: UN
TeleSur | - - A United Nations top official said warring sides in Yemen, especially the Saudi-led coalition, have no regard for human life. The top U.N. official in Yemen said Thursday…Russia: Permanent Bases planned in Syria to fight Terrorism
By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | - - The US military says that the number of ISIL fighters in eastern Syria has fallen from 3000 a month ago to only 1000…Egyptian parliament moves to make atheism a crime
Brian Whitaker | ( al-Bab.com The Egyptian parliament's committee on religion has announced plans to make disbelief in God a crime. Under the current law against "contempt of religions" atheists can be prosecuted…