US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would continue to cooperate with Israel over Syria and in countering Iran in the Middle East, even as President Donald Trump plans to withdraw US troops from Syria. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he met with Pompeo in the Brazilian […]
Archives for January 2019
Germany: MSM won’t Tell you White Nationalist Drove into Muslim Refugees
A 50-year-old driver injured Syrian and Afganistan migrants and shouted racist comments as he was being arrested. A 50-year-old man has been arrested after driving his car into a crowd of people in Germany in what police say appears to be a racist attack. A group of migrants from Syria and Afghanistan was attacked in […]
Trump’s US in 2019: Is the Mideast ‘War on Terror’ Paradigm Ending?
Juan Cole (Informed Comment) – The primary post 9/11 paradigm of US foreign policy has been the war on terrorism, which is to say a profound and kinetic military and counter-insurgency engagement of the US Pentagon, CIA and State Department in the Greater Middle East. This paradigm succeeded the Cold War paradigm of 1946-1991, which […]
Omar Khayyam on New Year
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Trans. Edward Fitzgerald I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light. II. Dreaming when Dawn’s Left Hand was in the Sky I […]
Dubai New Year 2019 Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa
Dubai New Year 2019 Full Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa
Israeli general sees possible threat from Iraq as Iran’s clout grows
Iran could use its growing clout in Iraq to turn it into a springboard for attacks against Israel, the chief of Israeli military intelligence said on Monday, reports Reuters. Israel sees the spread of Tehran’s influence in the region as a growing threat and has carried out scores of air strikes in civil war-torn Syria […]
Palestinian Population grows to 13 mn Worldwide, 1/2 in Israel and Palestine
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The projected number of Palestinians in the world is 13.05 million, of whom 4.91 million are in the State of Palestine, 1.57 million in Israel, 5.85 million in Arab countries and around 717,000 in foreign countries, Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said, on Monday, in a […]
Under Trump’s Pressure, Iran’s Khamenei moves to Ensure Rightwing Successor
( RFE/RL) – By appointing a conservative ally to head the influential Expediency Council, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears to have made a move to strengthen the hard-line camp and weaken the moderates — and also may have cleaned up his line of succession. “This is not good news for the moderates within […]
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