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Putin: Turkey was protecting ISIL oil Smuggling; Russia urges Assad-Kurdish Alliance
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in Paris that his government had intelligence that the reason […]
Snowden restores 4th Amendment: NSA halts mass Warrantless spying on your Telephone Records
By David Greene and Nadia Kayyali | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The NSA’s collection en masse of the call detail records of […]
ISIL/ Daesh exults at our loss of Liberties: “8 Men caused a nationwide state of emergency”
by Charles Kurzman | ISLAMiCommentary Two years ago, al-Qaeda’s Iraqi franchise took Raqqa, Syria, from al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, and was promptly kicked out of al-Qaeda. […]
Shooting of pro-Kurdish Human Rights Lawyer Deepens Turkey’s Political Crisis
GlobalVoices.org | – – On November 28, Tahir Elçi, one of Turkey's most prominent pro-Kurdish lawyers, was holding a press conference close to the very […]
Two Israelis Found Guilty of Burning Alive Palestinian Teen
By IMEMC | – – The Jerusalem District Court, on Monday, convicted two of the three people accused in the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. […]
Turkey’s Coup against Press, own Generals over Arms Supplies to Syrian Militants
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey has jailed two very prominent journalists for publishing video last May of a January, 2014, […]
What does ISIL/ Daesh actually want?
By Amalendu Misra | (the Conversation) | – – Every religious community, at some point in its history, has harboured a vision of the apocalypse. […]
The GOP Race as America’s Hunger Games
Nomi Prins | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Fact: too many Republican candidates are clogging the political scene. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games […]
Muslims are our Scientists, Physicians, Philanthropists & are critical to American progress
By Dalia Mogahed and John L. Esposito | (Progressive Media Project) | – – While the world mourned the savage and senseless loss of innocent […]