New York (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Recently, international media has highlighted the mass famine in Gaza. Yet, there have been effectively three waves […]
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Women’s Voices Matter, especially in the Middle East
By Lauren Feeney | (Informed Comment) – – Before there were nine million Syrian refugees, civil wars in Yemen and Libya, mass death sentences being […]
The Middle East Policy of President John Ellis “Jeb” Bush: Iraq, Iran Wars?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Jeb Bush announced his run for president on Monday. It is hard to know what his […]
Flash Fiction: “The Office”
N.B. Fiction with mature themes. By Juan Cole | The Office Adib was winning at cards again. Bashir was already out, sitting […]
In defeat for Israel Lobbies, Professors’ Union censures U of Illinois Over Salaita Firing
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Attorneys for Professor Steven Salaita called the move by leading academic group ‘a serious blemish […]
Saudi Arabia Lashing Blogger Reveals What Religion Fears Most
Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “The public flogging of jailed blogger Raif Badawi is now “sure” to […]
Why Pelosi, Hillary and House Democrats turned on Obama over Asian free trade
By Harley Shaiken | (The Conversation) | – – Over the last several days, President Barack Obama pulled out all the stops to pass Trade […]
Pres. Erdogan sees Syrian Kurds’ advance against ISIL as “danger” to Turkey
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The leftist Kurdish Protection Forces (YPG) and their Arab allies, the Euphrates Volcano, continued their assault […]
Next year in Mosul: Iraqi Kurds cut off ISIL/ Daesh Supply Lines
VICE News | (Video report) | – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and equipped […]
The Immorality of harming the Earth: Burning Fossil Fuels is Today’s Golden Calf
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) – – In the latter half of the nineteenth century, we began to burn fossil fuels rather casually, without […]