Informed Comment - Part 1089

Iran: As US Sanctions Loom, Run on Gold, Banks, and Protests Spread

Tehran (AFP) – Iranians are hunkering down for the return of US sanctions on Monday with a run on gold and hard currency as they […]

Eric Randolph

Yemen

Yemen Slaughter: Saudi Airstrikes on Hospital, Fish Market Kill 55 Civilians – Red Cross

Sanaa (AFP) – A series of explosions Thursday on Yemen’s rebel-held port city of Hodeida killed 55 civilians and wounded dozens of others, the Red […]

AFP

Donald Trump

Turkish Party Proposes Seizing Trump Towers to Retaliate for US Sanctions

The Turkish Press reports that the IYI Party is suggesting that the government seize the country’s Trump Towers and nationalize it. The threat shows the […]

Juan Cole

Iran

Things are So Bad in Iran that Afghan Migrants are Going Home

Kabul (RFE/RL) – More than 400,000 undocumented Afghan migrants left Iran for Afghanistan so far in 2018, many of them in buses from Herat, near […]

Frud Bezhan

Climate Change

Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

The researchers relied on historical data and used climate models to estimate future temperatures. Heatwave-related deaths could rise up to 2,000 percent by 2080, according […]

TeleSur

Plutocracy

5 Red Flashing Signals of the Great Trump Crash

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and if there’s one thing we know […]

Nomi Prins

Syria

Israel Sees Advantages in Assad Victory in Syria

Jerusalem (AFP) – Gains by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the Syrian civil war present advantages for Israel even though the two countries remain technically […]

AFP

Featured

Did Tillerson lose his Job over Stopping a Saudi Invasion of Qatar?

Alex Emmons at The Intercept interviewed two former State Department officials and one intelligence official who confirmed to him that in early June, 2017, Saudi […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump