Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]
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As Palmyra Falls, Who Supports Bashar al-Assad in Syria? (Charles Glass)
VICE News | (Video) “VICE News and the New York Review of Books have partnered to create Talking Heads, a series about the big issues […]
Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary — Q & A with REBECCA STEIN: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford University Press, […]
Washington asks, “Who lost Ramadi?” But Washington never had Ramadi
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — The inside-the-Beltway debate set off by the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Daesh (ISIS, […]
Israel: Court Permits Discriminatory Evictions of Palestinian-Israeli Villagers
Human Rights Watch | – Arab Villages in Israel, West Bank Face New Displacement (Jerusalem) – Separate Israeli Supreme Court decisions issued on May 5, […]
Solar, Wind don’t do this: 21,000 Gallons of Oil Stain Santa Barbara, CA Coastline
By Nicholas Sirianno | (Mountain Weekly News) — About 25 miles north of Santa Barbara, CA Refugio State Beach, a quiet white-sand surf and popular […]
Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World’s Neglect
By Haroro J. Ingram with L. T. Anthony | (The Conversation) | – Syrian civilians are trapped in the middle of a holocaust: prizes in […]
Epileptic Girl moved to Denver for Medical Pot, Dramatically Improves
WCPO Denver | (9 on Your Side Video) | – “Adam and Heather Benton uprooted their lives to move across the country this April to […]
Iraq: 25,000 Shiite Militiamen gather for Battle of Ramadi
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | — Al-Zaman (The Times of Baghdad) reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi met Tuesday with leaders of […]
Unlike Congress, Majority of Americans Oppose NSA Spying
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – Survey commissioned by ACLU shows “how disconnected members of Congress are from the feelings of a […]
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