Majed Aboali | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Hospital workers in Syria, barely able to keep up with demand, are desperate to reduce the supply. Their plea: stop the killing. ————————————————————————– Breaking News CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports on the aftermath of a missile attack on a market in the Syrian suburb of […]
Turkey: Can a pro-Feminist, pro-Kurdish Party get out the Women’s Vote?
By Mona Tajali | (OpenDemocracy) | – – The Turkish HDP’s egalitarian gender ideology played a key role in the election of a record number of women to parliament in June’s election. Can these gains be sustained in the political turmoil ahead? On June 7th Turkey held parliamentary elections which marked major turning points in […]
Abbas submits further files on Israeli Crimes to Int’l Criminal Court
Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Friday submitted additional files documenting Israeli violations of international law to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Palestinian foreign minister said. Riyad Al-Maliki told Fatah-affiliated radio station Mawtini on Saturday that Abbas and his delegation had urged the ICC’s […]
Will Turkey’s Elections bring Peace or More Conflict with Kurds?
By Peter O’Connor | Diyarbakr | (Informed Comment) | – – Tomorrow, on November 1, Turkish voters will return to the polls for the second time in 5 months. At the core of this election is a conflict that’s been eating away at the country’s east: The “Kurdish question”. In Diyarbakir, the unofficial capital of […]
Unlike Florida, India’s Tamil Nadu State Requires Solar Panels on New Multistory Buildings
Smitha TK | (NDTV Video Report) | – – “The Tamil Nadu Government makes Solar Power generation mandatory in buildings, but is it doing enough to crease out the implementation challenges? Smitha TK gets us this story.” Tamil Nadu’s population is 67 million, more than either Britain or France. NDTV: ” Mandatory solar panels for […]
Autopsy as Vienna Syria Summit concludes: Did US let its hard Line Saudi Ally run Wild?
By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) | – – Deep contradictions in the Administration’s Syria policy are on full display as the US, Russia, Iran and assorted other Middle Eastern states meet in Vienna in search of a political process to solve the Syrian conflict. It’s deja vu all over again – with some adjustments. […]
Israeli soldiers tell Palestinians: ‘We will gas you until you die’
By Megan Hanna | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – On October 29, Israeli military forces issued a disturbing message to residents of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, telling them that unless they stopped throwing stones “we will gas you until you die.” Israeli military forces raided the camp and fired tear gas and flash […]
Syria: On eve of Vienna Summit, Has Russia changed the facts on the Ground?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Writing in al-Hayat [Life] this week, columnist Walid Choucair outlined the successes he sees Russia to have had in its Syria campaign, and the goals for which it is reaching. Choucair is the Lebanese affairs bureau chief of this pan-Arab, Saudi-owned London daily, which has a […]
Why Russia Fears ISIL: Panic over Domestic Terror Plots & Wave of Arrests
By Joanna Paraszczuk | ( RFE/ RL ) | – – Russia appears to be cracking down on Muslims and labor migrants in response to what it says are domestic terror threats from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group with reports of mass arrests of “IS-linked suspects” last week. The apparent crackdown comes amid heightened […]
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