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The Danger Of Dictatorship: How To Replace Iraq’s Flawed Political System?
By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Iraq’s Parliament has failed its people. This was the message from protestors last week. But […]
Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority
VICE News | (Video report) | – – “In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by […]
Surprise! Despite Syria-Iraq Turmoil, Major Mideast Economies growing 3-4%
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – When you only hear bad news from a place, you form a negative opinion of it. […]
100th Anniversary: What did the Sykes-Picot Agreement mean for the Middle East?
By Stephen Pascoe | (The Conversation) | – – To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory […]
Surges, Mission Creeps & Drones in the Mideast: America’s Forever War
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – There are the news stories that genuinely surprise you, and then there are the ones […]
Annual ‘March of Return’ draws thousands of Palestinians to the Negev
Ma’an News Agency | – – NEGEV (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians participated in the annual ‘March of Return’ on Thursday afternoon near Bedouin towns […]
Baghdad gov’t paralysis made capital vulnerable to massive ISIL bombings
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) launched a series of suicide car and truck bombs in Baghdad on Wednesday, […]
Aside from Super-Rich, All Americans are poorer this century
TeleSur | – – Soon, researchers predict, the middle class will no longer be the largest class in the United States. Households in the United […]
Sadiq Khan and the End of Islamophobia
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The victory of Sadiq Khan has "normalized" Muslims in UK politics in much […]
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