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Why is Iran so Central to US Policy? An Interview with Doyen of US Iran Experts, Gary Sick (Pt. 1)
Gary Sick was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter. He was present at the White House during some turbulent times- the Iranian revolution, […]
Israel Committing War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing in N. Gaza: Former Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon
( Middle East Monitor ) – Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon accused the army on Sunday of committing war crimes in the northern Gaza […]
Trump’s Second Coming: “I never realized before that men hate us so much.”
( Tomdispatch.com ) – “I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers […]
Syria as Putin’s Afghanistan: How a Radical Fundamentalist take-over of Damascus could Change the Middle East
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The collapse of the Baathist government of Syria in the north of the country, as the al-Qaeda affiliate HTS (Hay’at […]
Netherlands Supreme Court advised to uphold Israel F-35 Components Export Ban
( Middle East Monitor ) – The advocate general of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the country’s highest court, was advised on Friday to […]
A tax on new Plastic would slash Waste – if built into the global Treaty on Plastics
By Amelia Leavesley, The University of Melbourne (The Conversation) – Earlier this week, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest made headlines calling for a global “polymer […]
Killing One innocent Soul is the Same as Killing all of Humanity: Jewish and Muslim Teachings against Cosmocide
The below is an excerpt from my essay, “The Sin of Cosmocide,” for Renovatio, the literary magazine of Zaytuna, the Muslim liberal arts college in […]
Hypocritical Rejection of Netanyahu Warrant: Washington Holds that the Int’l Criminal Court is only for Enemies and People of Color
( Middle East Monitor ) – The arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister […]
Gaza’s cultural Heritage has been devastated by the Conflict with Israel – this is how we’re documenting the Damage
By Michael Fradley, University of Oxford; Andrew Petersen, University of Bradford, and Bill Finlayson, University of Oxford (The Conversation) – Situated at the junction between […]
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