Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be […]
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Syria: Roman Palmyra Monuments in danger as ISIL Fighters Near
BBC News | Video | – “Islamic State militants move to within a few miles of one of the world’s oldest and most important archaeological […]
Cole: Iraq’s Ramadi falls to ISIL as Shiite Gov’t refuses to Arm Sunni Tribes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The Times of Baghdad (al-Zaman) reports that fighters of the Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) terrorist group raised their black flags […]
Was that a White House- Gulf Arab Summit or an Arms Bazaar?
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia on […]
Palestinian Catastrophe Day: Injuries as Israeli Soldiers Attack Peaceful Nil’in Protest
By Saed Bannoura | (IMEMC News) | – More than 1,200 Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched in the weekly protest in […]
Obama: No Mideast NATO, but US committed to Security of Arab Gulf States
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council came to meet President Barack Obama at Camp David in […]
Why Obama is bucking Saudis, Israel on Iran: Deal would much Strengthen US Security
By Brian M Downing | (Informed Comment) | – The dialog between the US and Iran moves ahead, albeit haltingly. Opposition comes from important groups […]
Iraq’s Shiite Militias turn on their Shiite Prime Minister
By Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | – (Baghdad) – Iraq’s relatively new Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has been performing a tricky balancing act for the […]
Too Big not to Fail: The US Military’s Missions Unaccomplished
By William J. Astore | (Tomdispatch.com) It’s 1990. I’m a young captain in the U.S. Air Force. I’ve just witnessed the fall of the Berlin […]
United Nations: “No confidence vote” on America’s Post-9/11 Human Rights Record
By Gustavo Capdevila | (Inter Press Service) | – GENEVA (IPS) – Without the emperor’s clothes, like in the Hans Christian Andersen story, the United […]
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