By Efe Kerem Sozer | (GlobalVoices.org) | – – Ahmet Davutoglu was disliked by many in Turkey. [Even after] he step[pped] down as Turkey's Prime Minister amid an apparent confrontation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he will fail to distance himself from the grave human cost of the government military operation in Eastern Turkey and […]
Archives for May 2016
Can Iran sue the US for Coup & supporting Saddam in Iran-Iraq War?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iranian members of parliament have approved the details of a bill that insists US compensate Iran for its crimes against that country. The bill comes as a result of a $2 billion judgment against Iran entered by a US court and backed by an act of […]
Middle East – The Mother of All Humanitarian Crises
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, May 16 2016 (IPS) – When, in March 2015, delegates from the Middle East met in Amman for their regional consultations round in preparation for the May 23-24 World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, most likely what they had in mind is the fact that […]
Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot
By Akil N. Awan | ( History Today) | – – How an agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for western treachery, greed and the impact of colonial machinations on the lives of local peoples. One of the most striking observations, when comparing a map of Europe with one of the Middle East or North […]
PCBS: “Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine”
By Saed Bannoura | PCBS/ IMEMC | – – Excerpted for IC This is a special statistical bulletin by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) on the 68th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948. The number of Palestinians worldwide has multiplied about nine-fold — Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of […]
British PM Cameron’s tiff with Trump over Muslims: The Hypocrisy Factor
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump announced his monstrous and yet daffy plan to exlude Muslims from the United States (what with being, himself, both monstrous and yet daffy), British Prime Minister David Cameron called him out. The plan, he said, is “divisive, stupid and wrong.” Trump gave an […]
Trump’s Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government that led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest should come as no great shock, though the public confirmation is perhaps surprising. Nor is it unconnected to the popularity of Donald Trump, who […]
The Biggest threat to the Mideast isn’t ISIL, it’s bad, Corrupt Governance
By Marwan Muasher | (Project Syndicate) | – – WASHINGTON, DC – A recent survey of 100 Arab thought leaders conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed a sweeping consensus about what underlies many of the region’s problems: a lack of good governance. Indeed, those polled emphasized domestic problems resulting from that failure […]
Nakba (Catastrophe)! Where did all the Palestinians Go?
AJ+ | (Video report) | – – “In 1948, around 80% of Palestinians were forced out of their homes during the creation of Israel. That event is known as the Nakba, or “the Catastrophe.” So where did they go? And how many Palestinians are there around the world now?” AJ+: “Where Did The Palestinians Go?”
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