Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]
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More Palestinians killed than any year since1967, Says United Nations
By Valentina Ieri UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – In 2014, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) saw the worst escalation of hostilities […]
Ted Cruz Thinks Non-Christians Have Too Much Power
Cenk Uygur, John Iadaola and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks) – “Cenk Uygur, John Iadaola and Jimmy Dore host of The Young Turks discusses […]
The rise of the Israeli far right & the future of Palestine
By Ghassan Khatib | (Ma’an News Agency) – The victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies last week at the polls amounts to a […]
How GOP threats against Iran have Guaranteed end of European Sanctions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – The US sanction regime on Iran has a unilateral dimension. That is, there are sanctions only the US […]
Old GOP Realist James Baker’s hard Ride among Neocons
By Carlyn Meyer | (Informed Comment) – (Washington, D.C.) – Neoconservatives are beside themselves over James Baker’s speech at the recent Fifth National Conference of […]
Assyrian Christians and the ISIS Assault on the Remains of Nineveh
By Adam H. Becker | (Informed Comment) In their sanctimonious showboating ISIS has trashed the ruins of ancient Assyria and this is a loss for […]
Why The Iraqi Army Is Stuck On The Outskirts of Tikrit
By Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) – (Baghdad) – The offensive to re-take Tikrit from extremists seems to have stalled as troops surround the city but […]
Founding Fathers decried Standing Army: How about a Global Pentagon?
By William D. Hartung | (Tomdispatch.com) President Obama and Senator John McCain, who have clashed on almost every conceivable issue, do agree on one thing: […]
What’s Religion Got to do with it? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Once it became clear that Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, a reporter immediately asked “what […]
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