Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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‘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 […]
Fox ‘News’ Schooled By French ‘Daily Show’ On Muslim ‘No-Go Zones’
AJ+ | — “The host of France’s “Le Petit Journal,” Yann Barthès, asked his audience to flood Fox News with claims about Parisian “no-go zones.” […]
Sea Level Rising Faster in Threat to Coasts: Study
The Times of India | — “A study said on Wednesday that sea level rise in the past two decades has accelerated faster than previously […]
Will France intervene in Yemen after its al-Qaeda Claims Paris Attacks?
By Juan Cole | — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in south Yemen, claimed on Wednesday to have been behind the attacks […]
Gaza – reduced to Rubble by Israel – suffers cold, hungry winter: ‘conditions catastrophic’
RT | — “Many thousands of Gazans face a freezing winter living in tents pitched amid the rubble of their ruined homes – as the […]
Civilization’s Advance has depended on “Blasphemy” of Thinkers & Mystics
By Farhang Jahanpour The Wednesday edition of Charlie Hebdo (a week after the barbaric attack by two deranged terrorists on its premises) carried a cartoon […]
Boko Haram Menaces Cameroon Schoolchildren after Massacre in Nigeria
By Ngala Killian Chimtom MAROUA, Far North Region, Jan 14 2015 (IPS) – “I’d quit my job before going to work in a place like […]
Were Guantanamo Murders Covered Up As Suicides?
VICE News | — “According to the US government, three detainees — all imprisoned as part of the global war on terror — hung themselves […]
In aftermath of Charlie Hebdo, German Chancellor Merkel says Islam Belongs to Germany
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The thinly veiled hate group PEGIDA, which says it is against the “Islamization” of Germany (by which it means […]
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