Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Washington Post reports that when US Secretary of State “Benghazi Mike” Pompeo gave his breathless news conference last Thursday […]
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Gaza: Unlawful Attacks in May Fighting
Israeli Airstrikes Kill 13 Civilians; Palestinian Rockets Kill 6
Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East
By Samira Nasirzadeh and Eyad Alrefai | – Relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have rarely been worse, […]
Oil-Tanker Attacks Potentially A ‘Dangerous Escalation’ in US-Iran Confrontation, Expert Says
(RFE/RL) – Attacks on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf Of Oman have escalated tensions in the Middle East and raised the prospect of […]
Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad makes War on Boycott-of-Israel Movement (BDS)
By Abdel Nasser Issa | – Israel not only uses its highly-trained military and security forces against what it calls Palestinian or Islamist “terrorists”, but […]
Russia is Calling Trump’s Bluff on Iran and Syria, and Winning Big
By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the US is only isolating itself. (Moscow) – President Donald Trump won’t go to war with Iran. That […]
As Trump heads for Another gotten-up Mideast War, Iraqi Youth stage a 20K-Strong Peace Festival
By Laura Gottesdiener | – (Tomdispatch.com) – There’s a dark joke going around Baghdad these days. Noof Assi, a 30-year-old Iraqi peace activist and humanitarian […]
Whoever Hit the Gulf Tankers, Pompeo was Wrong to Finger Iran before Evidence Was In
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The mysterious mines that blew up two tankers, one of them Japanese-owned and operated, on Wednesday, sent a frisson of […]
In Killing 100 Protesters to Avoid Civilian Rule, Sudan’s Junta Committed Historic Blunder
By Abdulwahhab Badrakhan | – It is still not clear what’s going to have a stronger influence on the choices of the military leaders in […]
Iran’s Green Uprising 10 Years Later: A Humanizing Legacy
By Pouya Alimagham (Informed Comment) – June 12, 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of what sparked the Green Uprising in Iran. While many have noted […]