By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Clashes erupted this month between Kurdish fighters and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), with each side claiming to have inflicted casualties on the other. The country’s heavily censored media have even reported the fighting and acknowledged fatalities on the government side. But why the sudden […]
Turkish airport massacre will further imperil a nation on the verge of crisis
Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation) | – – Another heinous terrorist attack has horrified Turkey and shocked the rest of the world. The target this time was Istanbul’s busy Ataturk Airport and it is believed to have been the work of Islamic State gunmen who are thought to have entered the country before the beginning […]
Will Brexit Help the Palestinian Cause in the EU?
By Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – After months of anticipation, the United Kingdom has decided to leave the European Union (EU). Although, the results were fairly close — 51.9 percent voted to ‘Leave’ vs. 48.1 percent elected to ‘Remain’ — the consequences of the decision will be far-reaching. Not only will […]
Is the Mideast disintegrating or just being Auctioned Off?
By Patrick Cockburn | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars — in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and […]
CIA Arms For Syria Sold by Jordan Spies on Black Market For Terrorists
Jo Ankier, Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV) | – – “Weapons sent by the CIA to Jordan for Syrian rebels were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera has revealed, citing American and Jordanian officials. […]
US Elites Abandoned their Workers: Trump is their Revenge; & You ain’t seen Nothin’ Yet
By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And […]
How can Americans prevent an Israeli-Iranian War? Dump the Squatter Settlers
By Thomas Buonomo | (Informed Comment) | – – The conflict in Syria is likely to grow more dangerous for all parties in the near future as Assad refuses to step down and Iran continues to expand its military presence in Syria and Lebanon in pursuit of its decades-long goal of annihilating the state of […]
NRA: The Public be Damned (Political cartoon)
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Dissing Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israeli Occupation
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates. Despite its claims to want to unify voters ahead of November’s election, the Democratic party appears to be pushing for an agenda that critics say ignores basic progressive […]
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