By Hannah Porter | (Informed Comment) | – – While UN-brokered peace talks between Houthi rebels and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government-in-exile struggle to reach a political resolution to end a 15-month-long war, a rift between Yemen’s North and South is deepening, with the vast majority of the country’s six million Southerners demanding full secession. Heading the […]
Archives for July 2016
What Would Trump Fascism Look Like? Eight Most Likely Traits
By Al Carroll | (Informed Comment) | – – Numerous analysts, journalists, publications, and scholars judge Mr. Trump to be a fascist. These range from academics to Newsweek to Salon to the New Republic to even Forbes magazine and conservatives like Max Boot and Jeb Bush. He is authoritarian, appeals to irrationality, is highly nationalistic, […]
How ISIL’s attacks on Saudi Arabia aimed at Undermining the Monarchy’s Legitimacy
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia was rocked yesterday by three terrorist attacks, presumably the work of Daesh (ISIL, ISIS). The attacks were carefully distributed and aimed at delegitimizing the Saudi monarchy, which glories in the title “Servant of the Two Holy Shrines.” The first shrine is Mecca, the birthplace […]
Ordinary Iraqis defy sectarianism after Islamic State’s attacks on Baghdad
By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | – – “I’m happy that I graduated. I’m so grateful to my parents and I dedicate my success to both of them.” These were the final words written by Adnan, a victim of a deadly attack on Sunday’s early hours in the crowded, buzzing street of Karrada in […]
Tzipi Livni Refuses Police War Crimes Interview; UK Government Provides Last-minute Immunity
By IMEMC | – – Scotland Yard’s War Crimes Unit transmitted a letter to the Israeli Embassy in London last week inviting Ms. Tzipi Livni to a police interview under caution in relation to her role in Israel’s 2008-2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip (Operation ‘Cast Lead’). At the time of the offensive, Ms. Livni […]
Int’l Criminal Court Won’t Investigate Blair but Might Prosecute Soldiers
TeleSur | – – The Hague says it is not in its mandate to prosecue Blair, but may use the long-awaited Chilcot report to prosecute British soldiers for malfeasance. With the long-anticipated release of the Chilcot report later this week, the International Criminal Court Monday said that it will not investigate former UK Prime Minister […]
On the Fourth of July: None of us has Inalienable Rights if American Muslims don’t
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On this day when the United States was first conceived in rebellion against people being deprived of their God-given rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, it is worth remarking on our political season. One of our two major presidential candidates has targeted America’s some […]
What the carnage at Istanbul’s Airport tells us about Europe
By Karabekir Akkoyunlu | ( OpenDemocracy) Once the external anchor of Turkey’s democracy, the EU‘s normative influence has sunk as low as its reputation among its many erstwhile supporters, who now feel betrayed and abandoned. Shortly after the attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk airport on Tuesday night, a Greek colleague posted on his Facebook wall a […]
4th of July US Consulate attack in Saudi Arabia: Suicide Bomber injures Guards
TeleSur | – – A suicide bomber was killed and two other people wounded in a blast outside the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia’s second city of Jeddah early on Monday, state TV said. The attacker parked his car outside a mosque opposite the consulate and shortly afterwards his device detonated, killing him and lightly […]
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