As the West Bank is being annexed to Israel through blood and violence, many Israeli and international businesses and financials are tacitly supporting the ethnic […]
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Reza Aslan, religion Ph.D. vs. Sam Harris
The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks and Professor Reza Aslan discuss Sam Harris. Cenk asks Reza how he feels about Harris’ […]
Is the Center for Jewish Life stifling free speech at Princeton University?
By Max Weiss via The Princetonian I have never met Slav Leibin. Nonetheless, it recently came to my attention that he vetoed, with the approval […]
America’s Colonial Armies: Absentee Soldiers, Corrupt Officers and Collapse
By William J. Astore via Tomdispatch.com In June, tens of thousands of Iraqi Security Forces in Nineveh province north of Baghdad collapsed in the face […]
Is Baghdad next? ISIL takes Hit Base in Iraq, loots it for Weapons
By Juan Cole According to Aljazeera sources, ISIL has completed the taking of Hit district in the al-Anbar Province of Iraq. At a time when, […]
Iraqi Kurds to Turkey: Let Volunteers Through To Defend Failing Kobani
By Charles Recknagel via RFE/RL A top official of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region is calling on Turkey to let volunteer fighters through to the besieged […]
French Planes bomb Damascus to put Down Syrian Revolt, 1925 (Video: This Day in History)
“Title reads: “Defence of Damascus. French troops – barricades – and armed posts – now circle the town of view of threatened attack by Rebels”. […]
The Tunisian Exception
By L. Carl Brown What has made Tunisia’s transition from authoritarian government, for all its ups and downs, more successful than those of its Arab […]
In Symbolic Vote, UK Parliament urges Recognition of Palestine
By Juan Cole There are 650 members of the British parliament, so the vote on Monday by 271 of them to recognize Palestine is hardly […]
Columbus Day: How is it Still a Thing? (John Oliver)
John Oliver, “Last Week Tonight” “Christopher Columbus did a lot of stuff that was way more terrible than “sailing the ocean blue,” but we don’t […]
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