Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After nearly five decades of armed conflict with the Turkish state, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun […]
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Getting the Story: Combat Journalists and the Fixers they Depend On
By Nick Turse | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – We were already roaring down the road when the young man called to me over his shoulder. […]
Colonial Legacy: When Dutch ‘Policing’ Op tried to bring down Indonesian Republic
By Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – – (This essay irst appeared in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer) Inexplicable sounds entered our internment camp […]
How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico
By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | – – Wanting federal aid in a natural disaster isn’t wanting “everything done for you.” It’s what we should […]
Iran and Turkey tag team Iraqi Kurds over Secession
TeleSur | – – “The only beneficiaries are the Zionist regime and the U.S.,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. Warning against alleged foreign plots, the leaders of […]
Top 5 signs Donald Trump might be an effing moron
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Carol E. Lee at NBC reported Wednesday that last summer Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, […]
Germany and the Rise of a ‘Fascist International’
John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we’re […]
The Trump Presidency: How to Further Enrich the Masters of the Universe (Chomsky)
By Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – [This interview has been excerpted from Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to […]
How dangerous people get their weapons in America
By Philip Cook | (The Conversation) | – – The recent mass shooting in Las Vegas that left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured […]
Israel to uproot 100k Palestinians by Annexing their Land
TeleSur | – – The move would hurt Palestine’s aspirations of statehood. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed legislation that would lead to the […]