Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Abu Dhabi-based Erem News reports that the Prime Minister of Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, […]
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Palestinian from Occupied E. Jerusalem injures 5 Israeli Police in Car Attack
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian ran his vehicle into a group of Israeli officers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli […]
50 Yrs after Selma – Good News: Black President; Bad News: Asks for Return of Voting Rights
Barack Obama | (Whitehouse.gov) – The White House: “President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches” Full text of President Obama’s […]
The “Hindenburg Trap”: Dump Oil, Coal & Gas Stocks if you Want to Retire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – What is the actual value of the oil, gas and coal fields owned by big energy corporations, which […]
ISIS Vs Climate Change – Which Kills More? Russell Brand The Trews
Russell Brand | (The Trewes) – “Reaction to the news that President Obama has said the media “absolutely” overstates the threat of terrorism in comparison […]
Iraq: What is the meaning of the Assyrian capital ISIL just demolished?
Channel 4 News | – “[So-called] Islamic State [group] militants looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, government officials say.” […]
ISIL vs the Graven Idols of History
By Elliott Colla | (Baghdad Central) – ISIS’s destruction of antiquities at the Mosul Museum and the ancient city of Nimrud has generated a lot […]
Insulting Netanyahu: How Bibi got Everything Wrong and called you Stupid
By Farhang Jahanpour | (TFF) After all the huffing and puffing and all the aroused expectations about the speech by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
Iraq: 30,000 Sunnis flee as Shiite Militias, Army, approach Tikrit
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The Iraqi military and allied Shiite militias are mounting a campaign to take the largely Sunni town of Tikrit […]
Iran and America’s Memory Hole
By Dr. Arnold J. Oliver | (Informed Comment) Although Israeli Prime Minister Netenyahu in his speech to Congress painted Iran as a threat to peace, […]