Informed Comment - Part 1520

VICE Special Report: Fighting Isis (Ben Anderson Debrief)

Ben Anderson of VICE gives a chilling report on Da’esh: the events that led to their rise and the situation as of today.

Nicholas Kolenda

Islam-hatred

Did Muslim-Americans lose the New Hampshire GOP Primary?

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “This is what the Republican presidential candidates said about Muslims in their most recent debate.” AJ+: “The […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders

Did Bashar al-Assad win New Hampshire? Trump & Sanders Mideast Policies

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won big in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Caution is in order, […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees

Failed Syria Talks raise specter of new Refugee wave, Misery in Mideast, Europe

By Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation | – – The Syrian civil war and the refugee crisis it has caused is the greatest humanitarian disaster […]

contributors

Arab Americans

Kahlil Gibran: “Lazarus & His Beloved”

Kahlil Gibran | (New York Public Library) \ – – New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theater Production Photograph File Genre: Photograph [of Tableau Vivant] […]

Juan Cole

Pollution

Not just the Children of Flint: Has Industrial Society Poisoned Us?

By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “I know if I was a parent up there, I would be beside […]

contributors

Iraq

The Evil Genie U.S. Let Out of Bottle in Iraq Continues His Rampage

By Russ Wellen | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – As time passes, whatever responsibility Americans took for atrocities in Iraq, which are […]

contributors

Featured

Erdogan Threatened Europe with Refugees, now Demanding US abandon Syrian Kurds

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters reports that Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan allegedly bullied European leaders and threatened to drown Europe […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders