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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. […]
British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage
By Jonathan Westaway | The Conversation | – – In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film […]
UN: 47,000 displaced By Saudi-led war on Yemen since December
Middle East Monitor | – – Up to 47,000 Yemenis have been displaced to Aden as a result of rising military tensions in Taiz and […]
Big Legal Win for Kansas Schoolteacher barred from Boycotting Israel
Media with Conscience News | – – The US state recently passed a law requiring all state contractors to pledge they do not support a […]
Top 5 Economic Disappointments of the Trump Regime (so far)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Since Trump has decided that declining to clap for him is a form of treason, and […]