Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nadeem Badshah at The Guardian reports that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to recognize a Palestinian state today, […]
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GOP Figures used racist Ape imagery for Obama before North Korea did
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment)– North Korea lashed out at President Barack Obama on Saturday, blaming him for the Sony film, “The Interview,” and […]
Senior Kurdish Politician: Kirkuk is ours; if Arabs & Turkmen want it, let them fight ISIL for it as we do
Shalaw Mohammed | Sulaymaniyah | (Niqash.org) Senior Iraqi Kurdish politician Mullah Bakhtiar discusses his party’s relationship with Iran and with Kurdish parties in Syria – […]
Pakistan: Judge orders arrest of cleric accused of refusing to condemn Taliban Massacre at School
Reuters | — “A judge orders the arrest of a senior Pakistan cleric accused of refusing to condemn the school massacre in Peshawar. Paul Chapman […]
Schoolboy arrested for insulting Turkish president released
Euronews | — “A Turkish teenager who was arrested at his school on Wednesday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been released from […]
Haniyeh: Hamas committed to ceasefire as long as Israel observes It Too
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Deputy head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that the group is committed to the ceasefire with […]
Baathist Riposte: How the Regime Came back in the Syrian Civil War in 2014
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — In the course of 2014, two major trends, long since visible in the Syrian civil war, were strengthened. […]
You’ll Never Guess where Santa Claus was really from
BBC News | — “Although widely thought to hail from the North Pole, Santa Claus is in fact originally from Turkey. The BBC’s Mark Lowen […]
Illusions of Whiteness: Millions of Southern ‘Whites’ have African Ancestry
TheLipTV | — “Six million White Americans have some African ancestry, according to a new study, which looked at the genetic records of 145,000 people, […]
Israeli Occupation military demolishes dairy factory in Hebron, Palestinian West Bank
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed a dairy factory in the Hebron village of al-Burj, the owner told Ma’an. Yasser Muhammad Salim Masharqa […]