By Ramon Mejia | ( Waging Nonviolence) | – – As a U.S. Marine veteran who was deployed to Iraq in 2003, I can’t even begin to describe the disgust I felt while watching the GOP debate [last week]. Presidential candidate after presidential candidate attempted to one-up each other by highlighting how tough they would […]
Will Spain’s Bernie Sanders be a power Broker in wake of Elections?
By Paul Kennedy | (The Conversation) | – – Although Spain’s two big parties technically remain the largest after this year’s general election, they find themselves in a radically transformed political landscape – and neither has a clear mandate to govern. The Popular Party (PP), which secured its best ever result in 2011, winning 186 […]
Trump & GOP: Saber Rattling re: Iranians can never be too Aggressive
By Mahsa Alimardani | (Global Voices Online) | – – GOP candidate Donald Trump was the first to attack Iran early on in the [last] debate, calling it a “terrorist nation.”. The relationship between Iran and America is tenuous at best, and there is no better forum to exaggerate this difficult relationship than the debates […]
Human Rights in Turkey: Is Turkish Press Freedom Doomed?
By Lorena Di Carlo | (Inter Press Service) | – – MADRID (IPS) – The last week of November marked another phase of an ongoing shift in the Turkish Government´s approach to human rights issues – Two important events highlighted the ongoing attack freedom of press is suffering in Turkey. First two prominent Turkish journalists […]
Is Clinton right that Trump is Helping ISIL?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – During Saturday night’s Democratic debate, Sec. Hillary Clinton at one point alleged, “And we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don’t fall on receptive ears. He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter. They are going to […]
5 Questions For Syria Hawks
David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Last month’s horrific attacks in Paris and last week’s massacre in California – which was at most loosely connected to Daesh (ISIS/ISIL)– have renewed calls for more robust U.S. intervention in Syria. The momentum toward escalation is hardly limited to the political right: Opinion polling suggests […]
US Arms sales don’t Fight Terrorism & War, they Provoke Them
By Jeremy Ravinsky | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Nothing recruits terrorists like corrupt security forces committing human rights abuses with impunity. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Flickr) Recent, disparate terrorist attacks have shown that far from being “degraded and destroyed,” the Islamic State’s reach is growing. Unwilling to commit large numbers of […]
Israel’s working poor
By Jacob Wirtschafter | ( Your Middle East) | A poverty report has added fuel to long-standing debates about religion, intercommunal politics, and Israel’s national priorities. An energy boom and its high-tech achievements as the vaunted “start-up nation” notwithstanding, Israel is seeing more and more of its children living in poverty. Figures released by the […]
In the Middle East’s New Century, can Western Imperialism stop Thwarting Democracy?
By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | – – Jeffrey D. Sachs | (@JeffDSachs) – – NEW YORK – The United States, the European Union, and Western-led institutions such as the World Bank repeatedly ask why the Middle East can’t govern itself. The question is asked honestly but without much self-awareness. After all, the […]
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