Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]
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Denying ISIL Legitimacy and the problem of Radical Returnees
By Akil N. Awan via The National Interest Last week, President Barack Obama chaired a special meeting of the UN Security Council in which member […]
Palestine goes to UN Security Council to Demand Israeli Withdrawal by 2016
By Juan Cole AP reports that Palestine is presenting a resolution to the United Nations Security Council (through its “Arab Group”) calling for a complete […]
Netanyahu’s Nuclear Hypocrisy on Iran; In fact, Everyone in the ME needs to Disarm
By Farhad Malekafzali With negotiations to limit Iran’s enrichment in return for easing of economic sanctions on the verge of failure, hopes for a step-by-step […]
Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century
By Tom Engelhardt [Note for TomDispatch Readers: My new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World (with […]
Drone Strikes as much an Obama Legacy as Health Care: John Oliver
John Oliver “The United States has launched a huge number of drone strikes under President Obama. It’s widely accepted and extremely terrifying” Last Week Tonight […]
$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps
By Juan Cole It was all the way back in February, so the memory of this headline has faded: ” Congress passes $8.7 billion food […]
The Other Iraq Reality: Shiite Militias besieging Sunni Towns
By Erin Evers, HRW Shia militias, still operating under the control of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, are laying siege to Latifiyya, especially the Asa’ib […]
Tony Blair obsessed with Religious “Crusade” against Iraq, like Bush: Former British Dep’ty PM
Channel 4 News: “Former deputy prime minister John Prescott calls his ex boss Tony Blair a ‘crusader’ because of Blair’s recent calls to send troops […]
Pretext for US Syria Bombings?: No sign that Dread “Khorasan” Group even Exists
AJ+ Imran Khan “The Khorasan Group: The U.S. government insists it’s one of the biggest threats facing the country. But until a couple of weeks […]
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