Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Abdul Qader Fayez, reports from “informed sources” in Tehran that Iran’s clerical Leader, […]
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In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black
TeleSur | – – The connection often made between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth,” said Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist. Cutting-edge DNA […]
Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws
By Moujan Mirdamadi | (The Conversation) | – – Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public […]
Did the Pentagon’s War on Drugs Confound Counter-Terrorism?
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – 2017 was a year of investigations for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). There was the investigation of the […]
American Allegory? Trump Aide Porter resigns amid Charges of Spousal Abuse (Video)
Washington Post | (Video Clip) | – – “Jennie Willoughby is one of two ex-wives of White House aide, Rob Porter alleging emotional and physical […]
Syria: Deir al-Zor attack on US Troops, allies, Shows their Vulnerability
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – US troops and the Kurdish and Arab fighters among whom they are embedded came under a […]
Israel’s New Admirers: The White Nationalist Right
By Harry Blain | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel’s “ethnonationalism.” That speaks volumes […]
How Trump’s Erratic Isolationism is Helping China Rise
By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump warned grimly of “rivals like China and […]
Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, Rally against Turkish Offensive
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Arabic daily Elaph reports that hundreds of Kurds who came into Afrin from other Kurdish […]
Even conservatives are resisting Trump’s radical assault on the environment
By Tan Copsey | (ChinaDialogue) | – – President Trump has been in power for just over a year and has enjoyed few policy successes. […]
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