By Todd Miller | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I suddenly noticed what […]
Kabul Mourns Loss of ‘Invincible Hero’ in Anti-Shiite Suicide Blast
by Usman Sharifi | – – Kabul (AFP) – Whenever suicide attackers struck his fellow Shiites in Kabul, Wakil Hussain Allahdad would drop what he was doing and rush to the scene to help rescue survivors and carry away the dead. But on Sunday Allahdad himself became a victim, fatally wounded in the devastating blast […]
Dozens killed in Saudi-led air raid on Yemen wedding: medics
Sanaa (AFP) – Dozens were killed and wounded in an air raid on a wedding party in Yemen, local officials said Monday, with Huthi rebels blaming a Saudi-led military coalition. The Iran-backed rebels who control most of northern Yemen blamed Sunday’s attack on the Arab coalition that backs the country’s government, in the latest in […]
Who Made Our Students Into Debt Slaves?
By John Buell | (Informed Comment) | – – Periodically the so- called deficit hawks, a club whose membership includes prominent members of both parties, warn us of the dire consequences of burgeoning government debt. Many propose such harsh remedies as balanced budget amendments. Yet while these warnings and draconian responses are commonplace, one of […]
Iran vows ‘expected and unexpected’ moves if Trump exits nuclear deal
Middle East Monitor | – – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran’s atomic agency was ready with “expected and unexpected” reactions if the United States pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, as US President Donald Trump has threatened to do. “Our atomic energy organisation is fully prepared … for actions that they […]
Macron on way to see Trump: “There is no ‘Plan B’ re: Iran Nuclear Deal”
PHOTO AFP / PATRICK HERTZOG. Washington (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron, who is heading to Washington to urge his US counterpart to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that there is no “Plan B” if the accord is scrapped. French President Emmanuel Macron says he supports efforts to […]
Will an Emerging Russia-Turkey-Iran Alliance Reshape the Middle East?
By Conn Hallinan | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The unusual triple alliance coming out of Syria could change the regional balance of power and unhinge NATO — if it holds together at all. The unusual triple alliance coming out of Syria could change the regional balance of power and unhinge NATO — […]
‘Fake news’: the mainstreaming of Syria conspiracy theories
By Hanaa Hasan | (Middle East Monitor) | – – The sight of yet another chemical attack on civilians in Douma on Saturday 7 April caused the kind of international outrage that the world now expects and has come to know so well. Scenes of children frothing at the mouth and videos of people shaking […]
How does a city get to be ‘smart’? This is how Tel Aviv did it
By Christine Steinmetz | (The Conversation) | – – Smart cities, digital cities, virtual cities, connected cities. Are these just trendy buzzwords? Perhaps. But these types of cities are supported by infrastructure that is more than bricks and mortar. These cities are smart (thoughtful, people-centric), digital (driven by data acquisition, measured, analysed and sometimes exchanged) […]
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