Informed Comment - Part 1058

Was Saudi Arabia’s Assassination inspired by N. Korea, Israel, Russia or US?

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Saudi Arabia’s apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and […]

John Feffer

Featured

Germany halts arms Sales to Riyadh, as Investors sell $1 bn in Saudi Stocks

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that Germany would put arms sales to Saudi Arabia on hold in light […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia

Turkey Vows to Reveal ‘Naked Truth’ over Khashoggi Death

by Fulya Ozerkan with Brian Knowlton in Washington and Joe Jackson in London | – Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday […]

AFP

Israel/ Palestine

Under Public Pressure to Cancel Peace Treaty with Israel, Jordan ends Annexes

AMMAN (Ma’an) — Jordanian King Abdullah II informed Israel, on Sunday, that he will not renew two annexes of the 1994 peace treaty between Israel […]

AFP

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: America’s Longest Forgotten War Turns a grim 17

(Tomdispatch.com) | – We’re already two years past the crystal anniversary and eight years short of the silver one, or at least we would be, […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine

Israel advances Bill Tying Cultural Funding to ‘Loyalty’

Jerusalem (AFP) – A ministerial committee in Israel’s parliament voted Sunday to advance a bill that would cut subsidies to cultural organisations accused of not […]

AFP

Addiction

Socialism is Healthy: US Barracuda Capitalism is Literally Killing us

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US has fallen off a cliff on global health statistics, plummeting an unprecedented 21 places in the world index. […]

Juan Cole

Russia

Is Putin using Syria Conflict to detach Turkey from NATO?

By Mustafa Demi | – Turkey, Russia and Iran have actively involved themselves in the Syrian conflict, each with their own divergent interests. Moscow and […]

The Conversation

Saudi Arabia