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Archives for June 2016

Democratic Party
Hillary Clinton roasts Donald Trump on Foreign Policy

Hillary Clinton roasts Donald Trump on Foreign Policy

contributors

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “During her foreign policy speech, Hillary Clinton roasts Trump’s ideas – or what she calls “bizarre rants.” She talks about how a Trump presidency would be a historic mistake for America.” AJ+: ” Hillary Clinton Crushes Donald Trump In Foreign Policy Speech”

Iraq
How The US, Iraqi Army And Shiite Militias United - Then Split - In Fallujah

How The US, Iraqi Army And Shiite Militias United – Then Split – In Fallujah

contributors

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Anti-extremist forces have been fighting in Fallujah for a week. But before they began, there were serious negotiations between the partners-in-battle. And the negotiations continue on the front lines. On May 23, Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi appeared near an Iraqi army camp near the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s future is terrifying: Moshe Yaalon and Harbingers of Extremism

Israel’s future is terrifying: Moshe Yaalon and Harbingers of Extremism

contributors

By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – Israeli society is constantly swerving to the right and, by doing so, the country’s entire political paradigm is redefined regularly. That Israel is now ruled by “the most extreme right-wing government in its history” has grown from being an informed assessment to a dull clich […]

Featured
Baghdad advances on Fallujah but "slows down" for fear of Civilian Casualties

Baghdad advances on Fallujah but “slows down” for fear of Civilian Casualties

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi said Thursday that his troops were in position to move into the city of Fallujah from the south, after advances made during the past two days, but that he would “slow down” the assault for fear of civilians trapped in the […]

Christianity
Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East

Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East

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by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN | ( ISLAMiCommentary) | – – Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville How did the rise of nation-states in the 20th century doom religious diversity and pluralism in the Middle East? And, can pluralism be recovered to heal and transform the Middle East? Veteran journalist […]

Corruption
Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT)

Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT)

contributors

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble since a judge unsealed the documents of the Trump University case. This has the potential to seriously hurt his campaign. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. .. “The Trump University scam was a […]

Archaeology
Inside ISIL's looted antiquities trade

Inside ISIL’s looted antiquities trade

contributors

By Fiona Rose-Greenland | (The Conversation) | – – For excavators – archaeologists, but also looters like the [so-called] Islamic State, or ISIL – the opportunity for discovery in modern Iraq and Syria is dazzling. The countries lie within the Fertile Crescent, a broad swath of land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Zagros […]

Featured
As US/ Kurdish force Moves on ISIL at Manbij, Turkey goes Ballistic

As US/ Kurdish force Moves on ISIL at Manbij, Turkey goes Ballistic

contributors

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The left-leaning Beirut daily al-Safir (Ambassador) points out that less than two weeks after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced their campaign against al-Raqqa, the capital of the phony caliphate of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), the SDF instead has veered off to the west in a bid to […]

National Security State
Trumping Terrorism with Torture?

Trumping Terrorism with Torture?

contributors

By Rebecca Gordon | (Informed Comment) | – – Why do Republican candidates for the presidency keep promising to commit war crimes? GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump guarantees he’ll torture terrorists and “take out their families.” When he was still in the race, Ted Cruz offered to carpet bomb ISIS (and anyone else in their vicinity) […]

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