By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL) | – – Iran's moderates and reformists have had nearly a week to celebrate their return from a decade of political marginalization in elections that recast the ranks of the parliament and the clerically dominated Assembly of Experts, which selects and oversees the supreme leader. But how much has […]
Has Western intervention prolonged the Syrian Civil War? & has our Press Covered it up?
By Ian Sinclair | ( Open Democracy ) | – – The media keeps saying that the West isn’t involved in Syria. This isn’t true. “The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary”, George Orwell noted in his censored preface to his 1945 book Animal Farm. “Unpopular ideas can […]
No, Mr. Netanyahu, Hamas is not exactly like ISIL
By: Belal Shobaki | Ma’an News Agency | al-Shabaka | – – While Israel’s efforts to link Palestinian resistance to its military occupation to global terrorism are not new, it has expanded its propaganda to address Arab as well as Western audiences. By so doing, it is clearly seeking to exploit the global aversion to […]
US Airstrikes have made Hundreds of Thousands of Widows, Orphans in past 15 Yrs; GOP Pledges New level of War Crimes
By Mattea Kramer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The crowd that gathered in an airplane hangar in the desert roared with excitement when the man on stage vowed to murder women and children. It was just another Donald Trump campaign event, and the candidate had affirmed his previously made pledge not only to kill […]
Can we trust Middle East Policy to any of these Presidential Candidates?
By Simon Reich | (The Conversation) | – – Elections, the perennial wisdom tells us, are generally not decided by foreign policy issues. But who’s to say that 2016 will not buck the trend, as it has in so many other ways? We are potentially only one Paris-style terrorist attack or a brazenly aggressive act […]
Islam: Do you know the difference between Sunni & Shiite?
AJ+ | (Video Report) | – – AJ+: “What’s The Difference Between Shia And Sunni Islam?”
Syrian Refugees: Colonial Legacy & the Responsibility of France & UK
David Peduto | (Informed Comment) | – – The Syrian war has resurrected uncomfortable colonial legacies for France and the United Kingdom. For the French and the British, whose policies in post-World War I Syria shaped the country and the region in profound ways, the 500,000 Syrian refugees who landed in the European Union last […]
Debunked: The GOP “Civilization Jihad” Conspiracy Theories
Bridge | (Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, Georgetown U.) |- – • Presidential candidate Ben Carson has recently peddled a conspiracy theory about a Muslim “civilization jihad” plan to take over America. • Carson gets his ideas from Frank Gaffney, who was also Donald Trump’s dubious source in calling for a Muslim ban. […]
5 Surprising Truths about Terrorism
By Joseph S. Nye | (Project Syndicate) | – – SAO PAULO – American politics has been captured by terrorists. In December 2015, polls showed that one in six Americans, some 16% of the population, now identify terrorism as the most important national problem, up from just 3% in the previous month. This is the […]
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