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Archives for January 2020

Arab Americans
With Trump's Iran Attack Abroad, Iranian-Americans and Muslim-Americans are Unfairly Targeted at Home

With Trump’s Iran Attack Abroad, Iranian-Americans and Muslim-Americans are Unfairly Targeted at Home

Aliyya Zahidi

Irvine, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – A day under the Trump Administration typically consists of angry tweets, an absurd amount of misinformation, and reckless decisions made by an egotistical maniac. Just three days into the new year we saw exactly that as the Trump Administration launched an attack on Iran, killing the nation’s top […]

Donald Trump
Trump tried to divide Iranian Public from Regime, but 86% of Iranians are Negative toward US

Trump tried to divide Iranian Public from Regime, but 86% of Iranians are Negative toward US

The Conversation

By Monti Datta | – After the Trump administration killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike on Jan. 3, anti-American protests in Iran subsequently spiked, with thousands mourning Soleimani’s passing. As someone who studies the U.S. image and world opinion, I am aware that this event is rapidly evolving, so it’s difficult to […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Real Reasons for the Israeli Race to Annex the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan Valley

The Real Reasons for the Israeli Race to Annex the Palestinian West Bank and Jordan Valley

Middle East Monitor

By Nasser Nasser | – ( Middle Est Monitor) – We are witnessing the “annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley” fever and the left in Israel is running to catch up to Israel. This is the meaning of what one of Israel’s senior investigative journalist, Raviv Drucker, revealed in Haaretz on January […]

Donald Trump
Challenge to Trump: Muqtada al-Sadr & Iraqi Shiite leaders Call for a Million-Man March against US Military Occupation

Challenge to Trump: Muqtada al-Sadr & Iraqi Shiite leaders Call for a Million-Man March against US Military Occupation

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi nationalist Shiite clergyman Muqtada al-Sadr said Tuesday that he and the Iraqi Popular Protection Units have planned out a Million-person March to demand that Trump withdraw US troops from Iraq. Sadr leads the Sairun bloc in Parliament, which with 54 seats is the largest party in parliament. The Trump […]

African-Americans
James Baldwin’s Journey from Engagement with Israel to Pro-Palestinian Activism

James Baldwin’s Journey from Engagement with Israel to Pro-Palestinian Activism

Shalom Goldman

(Special to Informed Comment) – James Baldwin was one of the first African American writers to visit Israel. In the fall of 1961, he spent two weeks in Israel as a guest of the government. Baldwin was thirty-seven at the time, and already well-established as an essayist and novelist. He had published his first full-length […]

Donald Trump
It may be off the Headlines, but Trump’s War on Iran isn’t Going Away

It may be off the Headlines, but Trump’s War on Iran isn’t Going Away

John Feffer

( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – The current crisis might be averted, but the longer U.S. war with Iran continues. The United States has been in a 40-year cold war with Iran. Just like the cold war with the Soviet Union, the conflict between Washington and Tehran has been fought largely through proxies: in […]

Donald Trump
Surprise:  Trump himself is the Deep State

Surprise: Trump himself is the Deep State

Rebecca Gordon

(Tomdispatch.com ) – This seems like a strange moment to be writing about “the deep state” with the country entering a new phase of open and obvious aboveground chaos and instability. Just as we had gotten used to the fact that the president is, in effect, under congressional indictment, just as we had settled into […]

Donald Trump
Top People who Dress like Muslims who are a Thousand Times Better than Donald Trump

Top People who Dress like Muslims who are a Thousand Times Better than Donald Trump

Juan Cole

And some, unlike Trump, have won the Nobel Peace Prize

Israel/ Palestine
Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank

Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor) – A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West Bank. “Israel has impounded the only vehicle available to a medical team that provides assistance to 1,500 Palestinians living inside an […]

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