Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday slapped personal sanctions on United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca […]
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“Pigs! Crusaders!”: US-Backed Fundamentalist Militias drive US Commandos out of al-Ray, Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As Raf Sanchez of The Telegraph writes, fundamentalist militiamen of the US-backed Free Syrian Army chased […]
Is the Native American pipeline resistance in N. Dakota about climate justice?
By Kyle Powys Whyte | (The Conversation) | – – Over the past months, hundreds of indigenous persons and their allies have gathered near the […]
Trump: Disarm Sec. Clinton’s bodyguards: & “let’s see what happens to her.”
CNN | (Video News Report) | – – “During a Miami rally, Donald Trump wondered aloud what would happen to Hillary Clinton should her Secret […]
Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Must End, Says UK Parliament Report
TeleSur | – – Two parliamentary committees said it was likely Saudi Arabia used U.K. weapons to target civilians, but Tory lawmakers blocked a vote […]
“This Parrot is no More”: The 2016 Presidential Election did not Take Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote a book in 1991 entitled The Gulf War did not Take […]
Muslim-Americans are *Americans* & can’t be Reduced to stage Props for the 2 Parties
By Raed Jarrar | ( Otherwords.org) Both Democrats and Republicans are spreading the same Islamophobic message: you're either with us, or you're against us. On […]
Endangering the Planet: Populist New Right opposes Climate Action as much as Immigration
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – In a year of record-setting heat on a blistered globe, with fast-warming oceans, fast-melting ice […]
Israeli forces evict Palestinian family in East Jerusalem to make room for Israeli Squatters
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Thursday evicted a Palestinian family from their home in the neighborhood of Saadiya in […]
Trump-inspired felon allegedly torches Ft. Pierce FL Mosque, says “All Islam is radical”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Joseph Michael Schreiber stands accused of having carried out an arson attack against a mosque in […]