The last Time Summer was this Hot, Human beings hadn’t yet Left Africa
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The US plans to send another 500…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking…
Foreign Policy
Russian & Iranian Press deplore Hillary Clinton Hawkishness; Israelis complain she’s Dove
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - How is the international press responding to the Democratic National Convention and the formalization of Hillary Clinton's status as the party's standard-bearer in…Baghdad facing Invasion of . . . Cockroaches, as Temps reach 122° b/c Climate Change
Niqash.org | - - Last week Baghdad faced a new threat: A plague of cockroaches, brought out by higher summer temperatures. All sorts of strange stories about the insect invaders emerged. Over…Top Five Ways to tell if a Terrorist is still al-Qaeda despite name Change
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The leftist Beirut newspaper al-Safir comments scathingly on the name-change of the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate, the Nusra Front led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani,…Turkey Is Shutting Down over 130 Media Outlets; Can Democracy Survive?
TeleSur | - - Erdogan's political purge following the failed coup keeps on going, with the net ever widening. Turkey is shutting down over 100 media outlets and is purging over 1,000…B’Tselem: Israel demolished more Palestinian homes in past 6 months than in all of 2015
By Ma'an News Agency | - - A Palestinian family stands amid the remains of their home after it was demolished by Israeli forces in Masafer Jenbah in an undated photo. (AFP/Hazem…Can Turkey’s Economy come back from Coup and Massive Purge?
By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | - - The failed July 15 coup in Turkey has prompted a tsunami of responses by the government that is likely to have a lasting…Arab World’s biggest Problem not Terrorism or Fundamentalism but Water!
By Brahma Chellaney | (Project Syndicate) | - - BERLIN – Nowhere is freshwater scarcer than in the Arab world. The region is home to most of the world’s poorest states or…Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
By Fatma Müge Göçek | (The Conversation) | - - After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge…Palestinian FM asks Arab League to help sue UK over Balfour Declaration
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki urged the Arab League to help the Palestinian Authority to sue the United Kingdom over the Balfour Declaration…Arab Street Shocked as Saudi Delegation Visits Israel
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Egyptian news site the Arab Observer Network reports that the visit to Israel of a former Saudi military intelligence officer, Gen. Anwar…Lieberman: Palestinian National Poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Verse is ‘Mein Kampf’
By IMEMC News | - - Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has compared the broadcast of poetry by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish on Israeli radio to glorifying Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” the…Our American Crimes against the Future
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I recently dug my mother’s childhood photo album out of the depths of my bedroom closet. When I opened it, I found that…Islamophobia Kills: German Munich shooter admired Breivik, Killed Turks
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The shooter at a Munich mall last week who killed 9 and left 27 wounded was an admirer of far right wing Norwegian…Maybe Oil was a bad Idea: Temps in Mideast Beat Heat Records for E. Hemisphere
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | Commondreams.org ) - - "I've never seen Celsius temps like these on a weather map before," climate scientist Michael Mann said on Twitter. Thermometers in Kuwait…Israeli squatters fire on, threaten Palestinians on their private land
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli settlers verbally attacked Palestinian residents of the town of al-Khader in the southern occupied West Bank on Saturday, threatening them with a…Is Russia deepening Cooperation with US in Syria, or hitting US Bases?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - About a week ago, Russian warplanes bombed a Syrian base used by the US and the UK. The Wall Street Journal suggested that…Will Iraq’s next Government be . . . Iran-backed Shiite Militias?
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - The [so-called] Islamic State [IS] group has caused a realignment of Iraq’s political map. Next year’s provincial elections will signal who will…Israeli Army Uproots Olive Trees in Salfit, “Settlers Only” Road to be Opened
IMEMC | - - Israeli soldiers, on Wednesday, uprooted olive trees in the village of Deir Istiya, Salfit governorate, under the pretext of opening a road designated for the sole use of…Purge of teachers and academics bulldozes through Turkish education
By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | - - As news of the attempted military coup in Turkey unfolded, I was in Pennsylvania. Travelling in the US, I had coincidentally found myself…The West Under Attack: What we can Learn from the Roy vs Kepel Debate
By Mustafa Gürbüz | (Informed Comment) | - - The ax attack on a train in Würzburg, Germany, sparked the latest controversy on lone wolf radicalization in the West. Recently, just days…