Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions […]
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As Obama warns of veto re: GOP Sanctions, Iran says ‘Political Will’ can aid Nuclear Talks
By RFE/RL | — GENEVA — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says "political will" is needed to make progress in negotiations over Iran's nuclear […]
French Pres. Hollande: Anti-Muslimism is as bad as Antisemitism: Muslims Must be Protected
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) French President Francois Hollande addressed the Institute of the Arab World on Friday, in a bid to reassure French […]
Charlie Hebdo & French ‘Secularism’: Does it really just privilege White Christians?
By Mayanthi Fernando | The Conversation Commentators in France and elsewhere have taken the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as an occasion to reflect more […]
2014 Warmest Year on Record; So much for the “Pause”: NASA
NASA | Goddard Center | — “The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. […]
US Mission Creep in Iraq, Part Deux
By Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) — The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August […]
Top 7 Things to know about Belgium anti-terror Op that left 2 Dead
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Belgian police launched a counter-terrorism operation on Thursday in the eastern city of Verviers (pop. 56,000) near the German […]
Learning from Paris: Are you Charlie Hebdo? (Juan on Radio w/ C. Lydon)
Christopher Lydon | Radio Open Source ” Learning from Paris The story of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo has gone everywhere in the past week: […]
Muslim-Jewish Coexistence: Mark Cohen on its History and Relevance Today
by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE for ISLAMiCommentary Professor Mark R. Cohen delivering a lecture to a seminar room full of professors and graduate students at King […]
‘State of War’ & Surveillance won’t help Press Freedom after ‘Charlie’
By A. D. McKenzie | PARIS (IPS) – In the wake of last week’s attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people […]
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