Oakland, CA (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Israel Likud party under PM Benjamin Netanyahu had made Israel a rogue, pariah state even before […]
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Russia Condemns US Mission Creep, New Bombing Plans for Syria
Russia Today | (Video Report) | – – Editorial note: Russia Today is an organ of the Russian government, so this report is not independent, […]
Pic of the Day: Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from stone-throwers
Striking photo of Palestinians shielding Israeli policewoman from stones thrown by settlers. https://t.co/gburzyw8jP pic.twitter.com/8N6hDqgaFl — Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) August 2, 2015 N.B. A reader wrote […]
Rebuilding destroyed Palestinian homes: Resistance one house at a time
By: Anna Kokko | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – ANATA (Ma’an) — In the northeastern corner of the Palestinian village of Anata, between the […]
Grandson of Meir Kahane arrested for burning baby; part of extremist network
By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC News ) As Israeli investigators release their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and […]
Top 5 Ways Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics led to Sanders & Trump
By Juan Cole – (Informed Comment) – It is said that one of the things President Obama wanted to talk to comedian Jon Stewart about […]
Turkey’s AKP strikes back: the Politics of attacking both KurdS & ISIL
By Tristan Dunning – (The Conversation) – – Tristan Dunning, The University of Queensland Stemming from a presumed Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing killing 32 […]
America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State
By Karen J. Greenberg – Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through […]
It’s Dictatorship & Sectarianism, Stupid! – Rethinking the war on Daesh/ ISIL
By: Ramzy Baroud – (Ma’an News Agency) – – As much of the Middle East sinks deeper into division between competing political camps, the so-called […]
Another Bush Legacy in Iraq: Barzani asks PKK to Leave
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Sunday morning, Kurdish separatist guerrillas launched a suicide-bombing strike on Turkish forces in Angri province, […]