Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]
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Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart’s Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)
Bannon sent articles to white extremist leaders for line edits
Was Ayatollah Khamenei right about Washington? Trump Reneges
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump appears likely to attempt to derail the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]
Disrupting Climate Change
By Jules Kortenhorst | (Project Syndicate) | – – Despite a surge of apocalyptic weather and fears of runaway climate change, there is still time […]
Iraq: How Saddam Hussein’s Ghost haunts Kurdish Referendum
Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein tried to exterminate the Kurds in Iraq. Now Iraqis angry about […]
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, […]