The Nunes Memo, Spirit Cooking and Pizzagate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The frenzy over the Nunes memo, likely…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Here is a caution against the Nunes…
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Clashes between Saudi forces, armed gangs in Yemen
Middle East Monitor | - - Violent clashes broke out Thursday in Al-Mahrah governorate between Saudi Arabia’s forces and unidentified armed smugglers, Aden Tomorrow reported. Sixteen armed smugglers entered the governorate in…206 Global Companies profit from Israeli Squatting in Palestinian West Bank
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying 206 companies from around the world that…Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington
Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL) | - - WASHINGTON -- The directors of Russia’s three main intelligence and espionage agencies all traveled to the U.S. capital in recent days, in what observers…Saudi Prince reaps $106 bn from “Anti-Corruption” Scheme
Middle East Monitor | - - Saudi media sources yesterday confirmed the release of all detainees held on corruption charges at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the capital Riyadh. The news comes following…Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott
TeleSur | - - Opposition parties and leaders are calling for a boycott of Egypt's presidential elections after other candidates were arrested or intimidated. Egypt's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned its political…Egyptian opposition call for boycotting presidential elections
Middle East Monitor | - - Egyptian former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi called today for boycotting the country’s upcoming presidential elections due in March. Speaking at a press conference held at the…Yemen just got Bloodier & more Complicated: Trump Ally UAE backing Separatist Militia
By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | - - The fighting that erupted in Aden over the weekend is still going on, but army forces loyal to exiled president Hadi appear…Trump declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation about Putin Hold
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Trump administration has refused to implement new sanctions on the Russian defense sector, as mandated by Congress's “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions…US general defies Turkey, says not planning Manbij troop withdrawal
Middle East Monitor | - - The United States has no plans to withdraw troops stationed near the town of Manbij in northern Syria despite warnings from Turkey to remove its forces…Ankara warns US spec ops to Abandon Kurds or risk Turkish Attacks
TeleSur | - - Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag also stated that "those who support the terrorist organisation will become a target in this battle." Turkey's government has urged the United…US Pentagon will Keep fighting in Syria until they win the Vietnam War
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Vietnam: it’s always there. Looming in the past, informing American futures. A 50-year-old war, once labeled the longest in our history, is still…“Human Rights” highly Selective in Trump’s first Year
Administration’s Middle East Foreign Policy Dismissive of Rights Values Elisa Epstein, Advocacy Coordinator | ( Human Rights Watch) | - - Senior US officials have made comments on the Middle East recently…Afghanistan: Taliban Massacres nearly 100, wounds150 in Kabul
TeleSur | - - The explosion took place in an area near many embassies and government buildings. A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 40 people and wounded about 140…Camel Contestants in Saudi Pageant busted for Botox
By Daniel Martin Varisco | MENA Tidningen | - - The camel, once referred to as the “ship of the desert” for the Arabian Peninsula, is one of the most enduring icons…Why Don’t Syria, Iran, Iraq And Turkey Want A Kurdistan? (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | "Last year's referendum on an independent Kurdistan was the latest chapter in a decades-long fight for Kurdish sovereignty. But why was there never an independent Kurdistan…In blow to Trump, Syrian Kurds call on al-Assad to Save them from Turkey
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The hopes of the Trump administration to use the Syrian Kurds as a wedge against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may…Human Rights Win in Iran: Thousands of Death Sentences for Drugs Dropped
Centre for Human Rights in Iran | Trans. & Ed. Global Voices Online An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related crimes could have their death sentences revoked,…Palestinians: If Jerusalem is Off the Table, Peace is Off the Table
IMEMC News & Agencies International | - - Palestinian officials denounced, on Thursday, renewed statements by US President Donald Trump that Jerusalem is off the negotiating table and threats to cut all…It is all about the Oil: US Diplomats on Mideast Obsession
By Edward Hunt | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of the American Empire in the Middle East In recent testimony before the Senate…German Anti-Muslim Party Member in Surprise Conversion to Islam
TeleSur | - - Arthur Wagner resigned from Alternative for Germany (AfD) on January 11 for "personal reasons" and "only afterwards was it known that he had converted to Islam." Arthur Wagner,…