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Jordan’s King Abdullah warns Pence-Trump of Major instability over Jerusalem
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Political scientist John Mearsheimer wrote a book on the tragedy of great power politics. While that […]
Top Trump officials, in Syria’s Raqqa, vow “Stabilization” w/out “Reconstruction”
Middle East Monitor | – – The US government’s aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most […]
World’s Richest 1% Acquired 82% of Wealth in 2017: Report
TeleSur | – – Only 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 percent worldwide, the report claimed. Nearly 82 percent […]
Trump Year 2: We refuse to be Terrorized
San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) | – A little over a year ago at TomDispatch I wrote about the bloody nightmares rupturing my sleep and the night […]
Turkey launches Land invasion of Syria, Calls France opposition “Terrorism”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Arabic reports that Turkey has launched a land invasion of the Kurdish-majority Afrin canton in […]
Trump’s deeming Jerusalem Israeli Capital Portends Fiercer Mideast, Iran Conflicts
By Kenneth Brown | (Informed Comment) | – – As a visiting student in Jerusalem I witnessed the 1956 Suez war against Egypt, the attempt […]
Is China coming into Syria for its “One Belt, One Road”?
By Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – As the Syrian civil war begins to wind down after six and a half years of […]
Pence starts Middle East tour in Egypt, pledges ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ support
Middle East Monitor | – – US Vice President Mike Pence kicked off a trip to the Middle East on Saturday with a visit to […]
The worst thing about Year One of Trump: Fascistization of Cable News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – American mass media journalism is broken. There are some simple elements of US journalistic practice that […]
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