Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]
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Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying: Interview with Laura Poitras
By Tom Engelhardt and Laura Poitras via Tomdispatch.com Here’s a Ripley’s Believe It or Not! stat from our new age of national security. How many […]
Dear USA: Liberian-Americans don’t Have Ebola
By Philippa Garson (Follow @PhilippaGarson ) NEW YORK, 17 October 2014 (IRIN) – Africans living in the US from the three Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, […]
Defying Turkey, US airdrops arms to Kobane Kurds
By Juan Cole In a step that over-ruled America’s Turkish NATO ally, US jets dropped food, first aid and weaponry into the besieged Syrian Kurdish […]
The Kobane Crisis: Where are Turkey, the PKK and the Kurds Going?
By Mustafa Gurbuz For many Kurds, Ankara’s spectator role in Kobane is a systematic policy to weaken PKK to get more leverage in the peace […]
Top 1% ‘own half global wealth’
BBC News: “The richest 1% of people own nearly half the world’s wealth, according to a report out this week. With total global wealth more […]
Give Democracy a Chance in the Middle East, include the Muslim Religious Parties
London (Informed Comment) – When many Westerners think of the Middle East today they tend to see a region gripped by religious and sectarian violence. […]
Kobane Kurds fight off ISIL Assault, as Shells land in Turkey
By Juan Cole Kurdish forces at Kobane (Ayn al-Arab) on Saturday fought off an assault by ISIL that sought to cut the city off from […]
Armed Israeli Squatters attack Jerusalem Home of Returning Pilgrim
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Armed Jewish settlers on Thursday attacked a Palestinian home in the al-Suwanna neighborhood on the Mount of Olives east of the Old […]
Exclusive: Laura Poitras on the Edward Snowden documentary
Channel 4 News Channel 4 News: “Laura Poitras’ movie CITIZENFOUR captures the man at the centre of today’s Watergate moment – Edward Snowden – in […]
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