Akshaya Kumar, Deputy United Nations Director | (Human Rights Watch) | – – UN Security Council Meeting Should Address Plight of Raqqa’s Residents The United Nations Security Council meets again today on Syria – for the sixth time in just over a week. While it’s tempting to ask what the deadlocked council will achieve with […]
Archives for April 2018
Trump slams OPEC cartel over higher oil prices; Does he fear Carterization?
Middle East Monitor | – – The U.S. President, Donald Trump, slammed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Friday, complaining the cartel was keeping crude oil prices high. “Looks like OPEC is at it again. With record amounts of Oil all over the place, including the fully loaded ships at sea, Oil […]
Israeli Marksmen continue to use Peaceful Palestinian Protesters in Gaza for Target Practice: 2 dead, 40 Wounded
Ma’an News Agency | – – Gaza City (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a 24-year-old Palestinian protester in Gaza on Friday afternoon, the second Palestinian to be killed during Friday’s protests. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain Palestinian as Ahmad Rashad al-Athamneh, 24. He was killed during protests along the border […]
Star Wars actor Natalie Portman cancels Award in Israel, hints Netanyahu has gone to the Dark Side
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Natalie Portman has declined the award of the annual Genesis Foundation Prize in Jerusalem on the grounds that she is distressed by recent events. The Academy Award-winning actress, who was born in Jerusalem and is an American and Israeli dual citizen, said that she “cannot in […]
Iran formally switches from dollar to euro
Middle East Monitor | – – Iran’s feud with the US is set to get worse after Tehran announced yesterday that it will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than US dollars, as part of the country’s effort to reduce its reliance on the American currency due to political tension with Washington. Central […]
Who has won the Syrian War in the wake of the fall of ISIL?
Seyed Ali Alavi | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – ISIL may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria’s political soul is far from over. A Syrian army checkpoint in the town of Jaib al-Dikir in the countryside of Raqqa province, Syria, Dec. 23, 2017. Picture by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved. […]
Like Eating Fish? Then buy an electric Car and put up Solar Panels
By Jefferson Keith Moore | (The Conversation) | – – Climate change is rapidly warming the Earth and altering ecosystems on land and at sea that produce our food. In the oceans, most added heat from climate warming is still near the surface and will take centuries to work down into deeper waters. But as […]
Exposing Canary Mission’s campaign against Palestinian human Rights: A Resource for College and University Leaders
N.B. Yes, I have been smeared by this odious hate group, but there’s not much they can do to me. But they are trying to ruin the careers of our young Americans who care about human rights. Please alert your university administrators to their scam. – J. C. Committee for Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies […]
Friedman: Does Iran’s Quds Force really Control four Countries and is Israel-Iran War Near?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Thomas Friedman’s column this week made several allegations about the danger of an explosive situation in Syria, about which he is certainly correct. He pointed out that the US-UK-France missile strikes on Syria in reprisal for the alleged use of chlorine gas at Douma by the […]
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